A car needs a carport

[firefighter ontheside]

My son got his drivers license about 6 weeks ago.  I decided his parking spot should be under a roof, so I added a lean to carport to the sawmill carport.  I think it turned out pretty well and it will also help me out when milling to have a little more covered area.  Most of the time that I'm milling he is gone to school, so I can make use of the carport to park a trailer or whatever I am moving lumber around with that day.  I bought 2 1/2"x2 1/2" galvanized metal that matches the original carport to make rafters that are sistered to the original trusses.  Then I made a beam from some treated 2x6 I had and finally posts from 4x4 red cedar that I had milled.  My wife says I may be spoiling him because now he won't have to scrape frost off the car to go to school.  I figure there will be plenty of opportunity for that when he goes away to college in a few years.


 


 

 

[doc henderson]

also teaching him to take care of his stuff.  nice build.

[sawguy21]

I take it you don't see much for snow loads.

[Peter Drouin]

I was thinking the same thing. :D :D

[firefighter ontheside]

Well, I didn't do any calculations.  This part of MO is in the 20lb/sqft.  Not a huge load.  I used the same steel that the original carport was built from and at the same pitch.  I assume its about 2/12 pitch.  It will be fine.  We get less snow every year it seems.

[beenthere]

Does the rain water drain to the ends, or down the slope to the short side? Hard to tell from the 2nd pic. 

[chevytaHOE5674]

With the roofing tin ribs running that direction if you do get significant snow it has no chance of sliding off.....

[firefighter ontheside]

The roofing runs opposite the direction of the slope, so for the most part the water drains to the front.  I sloped it that way about an inch.  Normally I wouldn't do that but that's the way these manufactued carports are made and I was adding onto it.  The big carport has the roofing running from top to bottom, but I paid extra for that.