Soundguy
Old Timer
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- Mar 11, 2002
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- Central florida
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- RK 55HC,ym1700, NH7610S, Ford 8N, 2N, NAA, 660, 850 x2, 541, 950, 941D, 951, 2000, 3000, 4000, 4600, 5000, 740, IH 'C' 'H', CUB, John Deere 'B', allis 'G', case VAC
It looks like it's agreed, minimal frame and single slope metal roof. I wouldn't mess with the cheap corregated. Here (Michigan) real 29 gauge galvalume roofing only runs a little over $1 per square foot ($3 per running foot). For your 10 x 12 shelter, with fasteners, you would have less than $150 in the roof and it would be a 40 year warranty roof.
yep.. no snow load in florida.. though that thin roofing will shed snow with a couple purloins supporting it and a good slope. I'd put more faith in a metal roof than that tarp-port. I'm done witht hose things. i use to use them.. tarps get beat by the wind and cooked by the sun. the commercial frames I bought were good poles.. but you can't keep tarps on them here in fl. too much sun and wind. Now.. what I have done is taken the smaller 12x12 commercial kits ( poles cost more thanthe hf kit total ).. and them used sheet metal screws and put that ripple tin on them, then used another piece as a vent ridge using a firring strip / 1x3 on the underside for the ridges and purloins.
the hf kits, saimilar i suspect to the tsc and walmart/kmart kits is a thin tube.. thinner than the commercial tubes .. the commercial tubes are more like fence top rails and or line posts.. the hf/tsc/walmart tubes are something like a 1" tube.... wind eats them alive.
proper staking of the tarp DOES help them smaller frames.
good luck.