I'm back revisiting this "Car Port" or "Pergola" thing.
It'd be really good to have a covered area to do stuff under, and to shelter/protect what's underneath from the Welsh weather.
I fancied doing some metal-bothering and making a steel frame - but the cost of steel now puts the kibosh on that (at maybe £90 v £15 for a Tanalised Timber 100x100 upright - it'll be wood!).
As it'd be up against the boundary I'm limited to 2500mm height (which is the height of the workshed roof in the earlier pic - I've still to work out how I'm going to have the run-off / guttering direction etc too).
I've never done one before, and cost is definitely a factor.... but I'd want it to be solid and presentable - so not just some wriggly tin roofing sheets & looking like a barn lean-to.
I was thinking polycarbonate roof sheets like you see on conservatories and car ports..... but there is a bewildering choice of thicknesses and costs - anyone got any advice please?
(Area is little under 4m x 4m).
TIA,
G.
It'd be really good to have a covered area to do stuff under, and to shelter/protect what's underneath from the Welsh weather.
I fancied doing some metal-bothering and making a steel frame - but the cost of steel now puts the kibosh on that (at maybe £90 v £15 for a Tanalised Timber 100x100 upright - it'll be wood!).
As it'd be up against the boundary I'm limited to 2500mm height (which is the height of the workshed roof in the earlier pic - I've still to work out how I'm going to have the run-off / guttering direction etc too).
I've never done one before, and cost is definitely a factor.... but I'd want it to be solid and presentable - so not just some wriggly tin roofing sheets & looking like a barn lean-to.
I was thinking polycarbonate roof sheets like you see on conservatories and car ports..... but there is a bewildering choice of thicknesses and costs - anyone got any advice please?
(Area is little under 4m x 4m).
TIA,
G.