New Carport

[cgraham]

I have had the same problem with door weatherstripping on a stucco garage. I used a roll of 8" aluminum flashing and bent it along it's length into a U shaper (harder to do than you might think - needs lots of clamps (pop rivets pull out). Then I screwed the U along the bottom of the door. The flexibility of the aluminum made for a nice seal except in the two corners. I just keep a brick on the outside of the door at the corners to bar entry there.

I'm more concerned with burrowing rodents which are very persistent.

Charlie

 

[Dmace]

With all the rain due this week, I didn't want to leave the 2ft of heavy wet snow on it just in case. It is holding up very well but I don't like to take chances when there is over $30k sitting under it.


Upon close inspection, I did notice that the roof trusses are stressing enough to start flexing where they are bolted to the vertical post. When I close in the sides this Spring, I think I will reinforce them better.


I feel much better now!

 

[flusher]

I have thought about buying one of these, but I am worried about snow loads and I have alot of high wind. Wonder if this would wind up in kansas, or maybe NJ, if we got some more 60-70 mph gusts.

Anyone who has had one of these can you enlighten me on their wind resistance? I know I can anchor it, but wind is wind, and I am not sure how tough these things are.

I'd love to have a wind turbine up here, but they are too cost prohibitive.

I live in the mountains in PA, and I catch alot of wind especially in winter.

As I understand it, there are two components to wind resistance to consider: uplift and overturning.

For a carport with open sides overturning isn't much of a problem. You design the anchors for uplift. In New Hampshire the max local unit wind pressure is 30 psf, so the anchors for that 18x21 carport have to be designed to resist an uplift of about 14,000 lb.

 

[LBrown59]

Pretty much every region is going to be different. Here there would be setback requirements, and probably other limits if the interior was enclosed vs. a carport like arrangement.

The tax assessor has quite a bit of latitude in setting the value for a house. Unless one is in a subdivision of cookie cutter buildings, or the assessment states something about the outbuilding, it is hard to determine whether the assessment has 10-20k tacked on for a 'temporary' building.

I have a house with a deck that is not attached at all to the house. Technically, the deck is "temporary" (the reason for detachment is to reduce thermal bridging, not to avoid taxes). The house is full custom and unless the assessment stated something about the deck, I'd be SOL on that argument. Since the town is fairly easy to deal with, and the deck would sell with the house anyway (i.e., increasing the property value) it is reasonable to have some value added to the assessment...

Anything here on skids is exempt from property tax.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Anything here on skids is exempt from property tax.

Dang! This thread is only 8 months old and almost 5 months since the last post. Why respond so soon?

 

[hench861]

i have 3 of these up and enclosed on my property,enclosed them myself with the same steel as on the roofs,considered a temporary structure as long as there is no concrete floor,i used stone and old concrete form faces on the floor,used screw anchors every truss to hold it down,they hold up great to any snow we have had,3 ft during our october disaster.ill try and post some pics

 

[LBrown59]

Dang! This thread is only 8 months old and almost 5 months since the last post. Why respond so soon?

Was afraid I wouldn't have time later.