Seeing as I've just (nearly) finished a carport over my driveway I thought I'd share some pics. It's 6.1m X 3.5m and we set the wooden posts in concrete. I first sprayed the bottom two feet of the posts with plastidip, they were then wrapped in some rubberised membrane that my mate who's a joiner brought round. And Finaly I put black bin liners over the top before we set them in.
We discussed raising them on a slab but as my mate said, his grandads carport is set in concrete and has stood for 30 years and has never needed shoring up. If any problems do arise with mine, I'll just replace the posts, easy to do as we notched the posts and drove through wood bolts.
The roof was bought from Nick Gray Carports and is 10mm thick polycarbonate, and I bought a gutter kit from them too. I've also installed two 200L waterbutts so I can use the water to wash my car.
Also I'm aware my neighbours fence is a work of art :lol: I cut their front grass to keep the street looking tidy and I might well put some feather edge over that and give them my metal gate when I replace it with a wooden one. They're really nice people, she doesn't keep well and he works a lot of night shifts and detests gardening unfortunately.
Anyway, I'll shut up now. Here's some pics!
The driveway in question.
The fence posts are 100x100mm and 10ft high we used 8 of them. They're set over two feet down and set in concrete. All the wood used is pressure treated timber. This was the end of day one after digging and setting. I'd already pre stained the wood in rich cedar.
The next night we worked on it and we railed the 6x3s and put up the rafters.
This is where we left it that night.
Next up was putting the roof up. I never took and during pics so here's what I have.
Finally here's some nearly finished pics.
And here's who's house it is. My Estoril blue BMW E46 Clubsport.
With the dodgy Clubsport spoiler removed and a CSL bootlid in its place.
One final pic of it tucked up nice and dry.
Next step is to buy another shed for lawnmower etc, then flip the one you can see around so the door leads onto the carport, that way my karcher K5 can be easily hooked up to the waterbutt and my trolley Jack etc etc are all within easy reach.
Final thoughts are I'm really glad I've done it, the car stays nice and dry with no dirty rain spots and dust sticking to it after the morning dew. Plus the Windows won't freeze in winter. The only thing I regret is I wish we'd given it more than a 6" fall as the morning dew just sits on the roof and doesn't go to the waterbutts. I'd say a 12" fall would've been perfect and would lead to a cleaner roof. Other than that, I love it.
I've got future plans to enclose the open side and install an electric roller door on the front but I'll have to go through planning for that phase to check if it's oK to use fire resistant paint or if it's a no go. If I make any changes, I'll post them here.
Comments welcome.
Cheers :wave:
We discussed raising them on a slab but as my mate said, his grandads carport is set in concrete and has stood for 30 years and has never needed shoring up. If any problems do arise with mine, I'll just replace the posts, easy to do as we notched the posts and drove through wood bolts.
The roof was bought from Nick Gray Carports and is 10mm thick polycarbonate, and I bought a gutter kit from them too. I've also installed two 200L waterbutts so I can use the water to wash my car.
Also I'm aware my neighbours fence is a work of art :lol: I cut their front grass to keep the street looking tidy and I might well put some feather edge over that and give them my metal gate when I replace it with a wooden one. They're really nice people, she doesn't keep well and he works a lot of night shifts and detests gardening unfortunately.
Anyway, I'll shut up now. Here's some pics!
The driveway in question.
The fence posts are 100x100mm and 10ft high we used 8 of them. They're set over two feet down and set in concrete. All the wood used is pressure treated timber. This was the end of day one after digging and setting. I'd already pre stained the wood in rich cedar.
The next night we worked on it and we railed the 6x3s and put up the rafters.
This is where we left it that night.
Next up was putting the roof up. I never took and during pics so here's what I have.
Finally here's some nearly finished pics.
And here's who's house it is. My Estoril blue BMW E46 Clubsport.
With the dodgy Clubsport spoiler removed and a CSL bootlid in its place.
One final pic of it tucked up nice and dry.
Next step is to buy another shed for lawnmower etc, then flip the one you can see around so the door leads onto the carport, that way my karcher K5 can be easily hooked up to the waterbutt and my trolley Jack etc etc are all within easy reach.
Final thoughts are I'm really glad I've done it, the car stays nice and dry with no dirty rain spots and dust sticking to it after the morning dew. Plus the Windows won't freeze in winter. The only thing I regret is I wish we'd given it more than a 6" fall as the morning dew just sits on the roof and doesn't go to the waterbutts. I'd say a 12" fall would've been perfect and would lead to a cleaner roof. Other than that, I love it.
I've got future plans to enclose the open side and install an electric roller door on the front but I'll have to go through planning for that phase to check if it's oK to use fire resistant paint or if it's a no go. If I make any changes, I'll post them here.
Comments welcome.
Cheers :wave: