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Overview of Attached Carports

The customized Carport material packages we sell are generally much less expensive than other ways of building a carport - i.e., lumber or pre-packaged steel kits. Our Carports can also usually be built much more quickly than those others - often in as little as a few hours. And, when you combine those facts with our ability to provide you with a Carport design which meets Florida requirements which may not be possible with those other materials, you will see a  real advantage to building one of our long lasting and virtually maintenance free Carports. Attached Carports are below, and we also sell Freestanding Carports.

A "double" attached Carport

Usually a Carport consists of simply a roof along with posts holding a beam to support the roof. With an attached Carport, your home (or other structure) supports part of the roof with the posts and beams holding up the other part of the roof.

Carport size is usually designated by it's width. For instance, a carport wide enough for one car is a single Carport, wide enough for two cars is a double Carport, and so on. However, any Carport type can be made long enough to park 2 or more cars front to back, so width alone does not determine how many vehicles will fit under a Carport.

Typically a space of about 10' wide by 20' long is considered the size needed for one car. A one car single Carport typically measures about 10' by 20'. A Carport 10' by 40' is a typical size for a single Carport to park 2 cars front to back, whereas 20' x 20' is a typical size for a double Carport with 2 cars parked side by side. As with any of our materials packages, though, you decide exactly what size you need. Longer or shorter is no problem. Wider or narrower is no problem either. Even extra tall structures for things like rv's, semi's, and boats are easy. There is virtually no limit to the sizes of Carports we can provide for you, so you can cover as many vehicles and as much of your stuff as you like. The Carport package can also be customized in a many ways to provide you with a finished Carport just right for your needs. Typical features of attached Carports are:

• A Carport sized to your requirements and designed to meet
  current Florida wind loading requirements. (To see more about
  Florida wind load engineering, click here.)

• A mono-slope roof roof which attaches to your house. Gabled type roofs are also available but are far less common.

• A roof made of roof pans or structural insulated roof panels with various fascia & gutter options. Fan beams are available, and skylights are also available for structural insulated roofing.

• The number and size of posts determined by engineering and customer needs. Our computer software optimizes your Carport by calculating the lowest price combination of posts and beam needed. However, this sometimes means having one or more posts in undesirable locations. We can usually eliminate the posts in those undesirable locations by increasing the size of the beam and using fewer but stronger posts to compensate for the additional load per post. Keep in mind, though, this configuration will cost somewhat more than the optimized combination.

• For some double Carports (unlike the one pictured above) you may have a row of posts along with a beam in the center of the Carport. We can usually engineer a grid system of beams to eliminate the center row of posts, however the needed beams are usually more expensive than the posts and beam they will replace. But, if you don't want posts in the middle of your Carport, you may find it beneficial. (To see a picture of a double Carport with a grid system, click here. This will open in a new pop-up window)

• Because the Carport is attached to your house, posts do not have to be buried and can simply be fastened to a proper footing - usually your concrete slab.

• Durable and virtually maintenance free aluminum materials.

• White or bronze colored materials for beams and posts, both colors at the same price.

• Material packages also include post bases, concrete fasteners, screws, header for the roof, and more.

Remember, Carports built from our material packages are easy to build even if you have no previous experience working with aluminum. And since we use the exact same materials professional contractors use, your result is a finished Carport just like a contractor would build, but at a fraction of the price.