Build a carport with a plexiglass roof yourself
Your car needs a sheltered place, especially when the worse season comes. So that your vehicle is well housed, build a carport with a plexiglass roof yourself. Read here how to do it.
What you need:
- Wooden beams
- Squared lumber
- Ground sockets
- Roofing
- Plexiglass
- Screws
- Nails
- drilling machine
- Cordless screwdriver
- Spirit level
- Folding rule
To build your own carport, you need some manual skill. With a little effort, you can keep costs down. Ready-made carport kits, which you can easily assemble yourself according to instructions, are a great help when building your own.
How to create your own carport
You start off by drawing up a plan of your carport that clearly shows the space and dimensions. This will make it easier for you to set up.
- Think about whether your carport should have side walls or not.
- Find out - by contacting the building authorities - whether you need a building permit for the carport. Here, the legal regulations vary from state to state.
- When everything is clear, start purchasing materials. If necessary, you can easily have larger quantities and long, heavy parts delivered to you.
- Ask a second person to help assemble the large pieces. You cannot do this on your own.
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- Now it's time to build. First you create a stone or concrete foundation. When doing this, make sure that your area is level here. Use a spirit level for this.
- Now measure exactly on this one foundation all corners of the planned carport according to your dimensions. Here you now attach several ground sockets for your square timbers in the appropriate places. To do this, drill screw holes in the foundation and insert long screws.
- Then you have to attach two corner sleeves in the middle so that your carport side panels are additionally stabilized.
- Then place your intended square timbers directly in the ground sockets. Screw them tight. Please note here that these squared timbers at the rear of your carport must be shorter for the slope. The timbers must be vertical. Use the spirit level again for this.
- Then screw the beams to the upper ends of the already mounted vertical squared timbers. These must correspond to your carport length and width. This will give you the framework for your roof.
- It is best to screw cross bars between a vertical and horizontal wooden beam to stabilize your carport. You have now completed the basic structure of your carport.
- For the roof, screw the Plexiglas onto the roof beams.
- Now you can paint the basic structure with wood protection glaze.
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