Even if you own a garage, we very quickly get used to park their vehicles under shelters. It's just convenient. However, as parking in the garage, as well as the shelter has its advantages and disadvantages.
Even if you own a garage, we very quickly get used to park their vehicles under shelters. It's just convenient. However, as parking in the garage, as well as the shelter has its advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages of car parking in the garage
It is obvious that the garage is a kind of protection against vandalism. Locked doors garage eliminating the risk of vandalism and thievery.
Garage also protects the car from corrosion, but only under certain conditions. If the garage is sufficiently ventilated, not in her high humidity, mold and not overly heated, can be car in better condition than that which is parked outside or under a roof. In damp and musty garage but road salt can do with a car "miracles", then it is better to leave the car outside.
The advantages of carports
Suitable alternative garage is a
carport. Shelters may be steel, aluminum and wood. And though not a brick, the car is well protected from the weather. We need not fear even in the winter, we will have to defrost the windows and locks, car shelter can protect even the average winter temperatures.
Shelter and its solution
It is a very airy building, which basically resembles a kind of
pergola. Ideally shelter umbrella paved surface designed for car parking. It can be used for parking one or more cars. It usually has a gable or shed roof and as protection from the weather is sufficient. Comfort car parking can increase if the shed one or two walls adjacent to another building, perhaps a garage.
As with pergola awning construction is anchored to steel footings in the ground. Shelters are usually made of steel, aluminum and wood. Roofing may be solved by a polycarbonate (cellular, trapezoidal, clear), composite panels, roof boards with feather and asphalt shingles, trapezoidal sheet, Lexan or acrylic glass.
