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I like it. Not practicle up here but should work there. Open side allows for better use of the rest of the parking area.
Looks like Southern Yellow Pine, stained. Leave a note in their mail box. Say you like the carport and would like to talk to them about it, No need to catch them a home that way.
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Not to nitpick.
But a cantilevered structure is supported by just one end (point). The picture illustrated a braced stucture (supported by two points.
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It looks like it has corrugated plastic roofing on it .I doubt if you could get enough uplift to do any timber damage before the plastic blew off.
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I mean it looks different and all that but it would never be as strong as a traditional carport.
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I like the design - even more if it was structurally sound. Does anyone know it definitely wasn't approved or just educated guesses?
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Looks plenty strong.
It's not that heavy. KT
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It's as strong as it needs to be and quite visually pleasing, IMO. Modern architecture and Porsches have always gone together like hand and glove, back to 1948.
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That thing looks plenty strong to me... and I wouldn't be concerned about parking under it. It looks strong enough to hold up with up to a foot of snow on it, and that is rare here. Note that it has three vertical supports... it would be easy to miss that third one.
The only way I can see it failing in the 60-80 MPH winds generated in some of the stronger thunderstorms down this way is if it got to rocking a bit on the tensile strength of those three 4 X 4's and snapped a couple of them at a weak point.
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If you have ever been to the San Francisco Zoo there is a similar structure at the giraffe viewing deck. It's made of logs and is about ten times bigger. I sat under it for a bit just looking at how it was supported.
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Awesome.
I like it. I'm sure it's designed with all kinds of safety factor including snow/wind loads, etc. Those members are huge. If I were to design it I'd design it so the roof blew off far before the connections reached the failure point too (the biggest potential problem as I see it is wind loading). It's sublime. To achieve that, it has to be a little bit scary.
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It looks like mid-century modern style. I like it.
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I like the look of the the thing. With that much space I would just put in an enclosed garage.
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From the interweb: When the slope is under 12 in. rise per foot of run, a snow and accidental load of 12 lb. per sq. ft. should be used. I believe that carport has less than 12" rise per foot of run, so: it might be 14' long by 8' wide? 112 sq ft, 12 lbs per sq ft, 1,300 lbs load. I wouldn't want to be under it if that happened. For wind load (violent hurricane) the load is 40 lb/sq ft, reduced to about 17 lb/sq ft for a 1 in 6 roof. Still more than a snow load... I still like it. Last edited by 1990C4S; 08-02-2010 at 05:35 AM.. |
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If you have a violent hurricane, you have much more to worry about than a carport. Take the Porsche and get out of town.
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 Anyway, I expect that many here would think nothing of a similar structure with four-post construction, using 4x4's. . . . .which, btw, would fold like a card-house under extreme conditions. 
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It's a from of cantilever. And the uprights are already bending.
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The rain gutter and the material used to cover doesn't look good. I like the structure it just looks like they ran out of steam.
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rain gutter? what rain gutter?
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