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Explore beautiful canopy design ideas for inspiration for your own outdoor creation. You don't have to worry about anything, except maybe getting your guests to leave.
Most canopy roof designs are of a single slopped (Shed) type design to help shed water off of the roof. It may or may not incorporate some type of a overhang or cantilever overhang. Some designs are a Cable or Hip type of roof design and may be built using pre-designed and engineered trusses made from wood or metal building materials. Without the use of trusses the cable or hip roofs are custom made using custom cut rafters.
A carport, patio cover or screen room can be a great addition and investment to your home. Not only does it provide shade and shelter for your outdoor living space, but also protection from the sun and rain. But before running out and getting one, there are a few things you should know about these structures. These structures can range in size, style and price. You may want to consider what materials you want your structure to be made from, as well as if you would like a built-in or a add-on structure.
1 - Budget
2 - Function
3 - Size
4 - Designs
5 - Materials
6 - Permits
7 - Upgrades
Things to consider when building a carport / patio cover / pergola / gazebo or pavilion structure.
1 - Free Standing or an Attached type of structure?
This question is the first and best way to start distinguishing between these outdoor structures. If your project is freestanding, then it is either a pergola or patio cover. A patio cover can also be attached like an arbor (we’ll go into that difference in question two). Arbors will have posts or columns on one side and be connected to a home/building on the other side. This can be a point of confusion because many blogs, images, and descriptions refer to arbors as being freestanding arches or gateways to a garden or backyard.
2 - Rafters or a Truss Roof?
Pergolas and arbors use posts connected by joists and rafters for shade and stability, but those rafters don't keep rain or the elements out. It is an open-air roof structure.
3- Size of the structure -
This is sort of a trick question: there are no size guidelines differentiating arbors, pergolas, and patio covers. All three structures can be small or expansive based on what you want. Some may argue that smaller freestanding structures are considered arbors, but unless the structure is attached to a home or building it is still considered a pergola.
4 - What type of building material are to be used.
5 - Corbels and rafter tail end types, Bracket and knee brace types.
6 - Any type of top canopy covering. Today people may want to be look a rustic pergola but still may want to cover with wood, metal or a ploy type of materials.
7 - The color of stain / sealer / paint
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An Awning is a smaller structure never has no legs that go to the ground. An awning might have a support such as struts that attaches to a building but never has legs or a pole like a canopy. Normally a window or a door awning.
A truss roof is a pre-design roof system that are made from various different wood or steel composites with various different pitch rises. The trusses are normally design and made off site and trucked to the build site.
A roof truss is best described as a structural framework of timbers that's designed to provide support for a roof. They're also used to bridge the space above a room. They typically occur at regular intervals, and they're linked by horizontal beams known as purlins.
Though both rafters and trusses are triangles in shape, the trusses have more triangle webs inside the principal frame. Rafters consist of sloping outer beams which provide support. As the trusses come with a web of triangles inside the main frame, they provide more support than rafters.
Investing in a protective structure to house them in can increase the life of your vehicles and even increase the value of the home if you build your project to code.
There are numerous different types of poles and beams. Poles are mainly some type of form of tubing and beams come in various different types such as but not limited to Open and Closed C-beams, I-beams, Lattice beams, W-beams and so forth.
The poles and the beams are the single most important parts of any structure. They are the bones of the structure that does all the heavy lifting. It is all about the poles and the beams when it comes to the snow, wind and the live load requirements and not the roof top canopy materials. All building materials must be used within the own standards and engineering requirements, for what they were intended and never exceed their design limits.
Most local cities now have design requirement to size, open span and engineering in a form of a carport permit application. A lot of time a code enforcement person might ask for a spec sheet on any building material to make sure the products are being used for the purposes they are intended.
Every City or local Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) have their own set of rules and regulations that are subject to chance for the better at any time without notice. There are standard building code requirements and best rules of thumb building practices, but more and more Cities have their own building requirements to keep us all safe.
Don't never skimp on the poles and beams!
Most Cities want to keep those, cheap sold by side of the road vendors and all over the internet prefabricated blow-a-way type of so-called carports from being used as most can't be permitted because they don't meet any building code requirements for a permanent type of structure. Most of those cheap so cheaply built carports are designated as only portable or a temporary only structure. Those temporary things start flying around doing damage to other people property during one of high wind whether events.
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Carports - will pay for themselves with just one hailstorm and keep on doing their job for numerous years to come after that. If your vehicle has to set outside unprotected, you're at risk.
The average life of a roof in the local area is 6 yrs. in this region. So, it doesn't matter if you purchase a 30–40-year roof the average life is about 6 yrs. because of hail and wind damage in our region. If we take that 6-year average roof damage replacement and apply it to a carport, then it should pay for itself several times over and over again during its lifespan.
What happens when you get hail damage on your vehicle?
1. Your insurance pays less your deductible. $1,000.00 in most cases.
2. Your damaged vehicle has to go to body shop to be repaired - insurance pays - in some cases if the damage exceeds 60% of the vehicle value your vehicles could be totaled.
3. Your vehicles title is tagged or reported as having been repaired.
4. Your vehicles value is now reduced due to it being damaged just like as if had been involved in a wreck.
5. Come trade-in time. Your vehicle is looked at wholesale trade as opposed to an undamaged untagged nice frontline resale vehicle with no reported damage. Depending on the value of the vehicle this along can pay for the cost of a carport.
($3,000 - $20,000)
If a carport was to save your vehicle more than once, then there go. If you have two vehicles and a carport structure was to save them from being damaged ever 6 yrs, then you're coming out way on top. We been building for 30 yrs. and the carports that we built back then are still doing their jobs today. Most people we build for say they should have built years before they did so.
Smart money says - If you're going to pay for a carport, why not own it?
Don't wait until it is too late, it will cost whole lot more in a since of your losses.
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Today we blur all the lines between a patio cover and a pergola and oh and by the way let's throw in a screen room with that. Just mix it all up in some sort or fashion and you have a Combo patio cover.
Any portion of the patio top canopy can be a solid section of the canopy top, and any portion can be a pergola section to vent out the smoke from a BBQer ad be open air section. Then we can add the screen room walls and doors then we got the recipe for a Combo - Patio Cov - Screen Rm - and Pergola section all into one unit.
Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) patio cover with a portion being a pergola structure. Santa-Fe trim package included with the beveled rafter tail ends.
A temporary use building solution; with industry and manufacturing maximizing the use of them, particularly suited for warehouse, storage, workshop or loading areas. They can also be used as temporary use kiosks, information desks, tailgating, market stalls, and first aid centers, arts and craft fairs or to cover up a mover or shade for a mechanic to work under. A farmer might want to cover his hay feed out in a field to keep it from getting wet and moldy for his animals.
The goal is to ensure optimal performance and safety of any structure.
There are basically three different types of buildings:
All canopy type of structure is just like most any other structure, but most canopy type structures don't have walls. Most canopy structures and are used for numerous other and different types of applications such as break area, carports, patio covers, pavilions, product storage covers, sidewalk coverings, front entry way covers, and strip mall structures all designed to protect people and their vehicles.
Any and all of the building materials has their own limits to how they are used safely to cover a canopy open span area or between any structure poles. The stress to any structure can come from many forms but normally come from wind, snow. earthquake or shafting of the dirt soil.
Snow load refers to the amount of "snow and ice" weight per sq ft (PSF) that a building's roof is able to support.
Wind loads refer to the amount of force the winds put on any type of structure and in a canopy type of application we talk about up-drafts or down-drafts winds. or earth quicks and shifting soils.
Dead load is the weight of the building by itself. If you exceed any building materials limits the structure may collapse or fail while under stress which normally comes during a server weather event. Live load is the structure with all the furniture and people that might be inside of the structure.
Non-engineered structure that are not specifically engineered for a particular design criteria. This might use by a builder that is going down to a local building materials yard picking up the building components that is needed to fabricate and then building a structure without any plans, blueprints or documents to say that structure meets any engineering or design standards.
Non-engineered building design processes do not account for component loads or actual component strengths. In the middle lies a partially engineered structure which is a NON-ENEEREDERED type of structure there are no gray areas. Most residential type of structures fall under this classification, but we are seeing more and more municipalities that are requiring a certified Pre-engineered type of structure to be built.
Pre-Engineered Structure is a structure that is manufacturer design and fabricate to meet certain specifications and building codes and load requirements from the manufacture. While purchasing this type of building structure is an easy way to ensure compliance to your building meets code without hiring a structural design engineer. The manufacture does its own testing and design so it the structure is built correctly it will perform to its own the engineering standards. It also provides you with numerous options for customization, meaning you can modify multiple aspects of your building based on you or your unique wants and needs.
Engineered buildings - Structural engineering is a specialty trained person in structural engineering that analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of the end users and its occupants.
A Professional structural design engineer is able to stamp the structure blueprints plans within their own State approval seal stamps certifying that the structure design achieves design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of the end users and its occupants are safe.
Each State has their own rules and regulation and a design from another and are not excepted within another State. Critical skills and ongoing training a person need in structural engineering for a particular design criteria, blueprints or documents to say that structure meets any engineering standards. They need to be able to predict how these materials will perform over an extended period of time and while under stress or load.
Normal stress come from heavy rains, ice / snow loads, and high wind loads as well as earthquakes and soil movements. A fully engineered building is one in which all structural component interactions are properly accounted for during structural analyses, and forces resulting from these analyses are used to size all building components.
On larger structures a local municipality might need to see architectural blueprints and its own engineering spec with a submittal package on all of the structure combined building components before approving with a building permit. Those are additional professional services which has cost associated with then before the construction can begin. There are select few local building material suppliers that has an engineer personnel on staff and can show their own engineering certifications on their own designs when built properly.
We also work with some product manufacturer and all of their own canopy designs are pre-engineered and have the company engineers' stamp blueprint are on their manufacturer design documents and can be supplied when and if needed. We can't build a non-engineered canopy structure then get that structured engineered after the fact it is built. This has to know upfront and before the structure is built.
The real test of any structure is when they are stressed!
It is a field of engineering dealing with the analysis and design of structures that support or resist loads. Structural engineering depends upon a detailed knowledge of applied mechanics, materials science and applied mathematics to understand and predict how structures support and resist self-weight and imposed loads. To apply the knowledge successfully a Structural engineering generally requires detailed knowledge of relevant empirical and theoretical design codes, the techniques of structural analysis, as well as some knowledge of the corrosion resistance of the materials and structures, especially when those structures are exposed to the external environment.
Multi-chamber layered and multi chambered Polycarbonate roof and wall panels are available in clear, semi-clear, bronze and blue colored panels. These ploy panels are available in 2 or 4 layers of multi-level and multi chamber building products to cover a new or existing pergola, arbor or pavilion structure. There are numerous different systems and manufactures options that are available such as thickness and frame options. We have Ploygal Titan 48 inch wide 2-ply wall panels and there new Topgal standing seam 4-ply Hercules standing seam designed roof system is 24 in wide system and uses a clip system to attach as opposed to drilling holes into the poly sheets and using screws to attach panels are available in a clear, semi clear frosted, blue, bronze colors. The darker color are the less UV light and the less heat can transfer though the panels. Like glass they are a poor a thermal insulator panel.
That can be achieved with almost any type of canopy covering over the direct sunlight. Any claims of lowering your temps by 20% percent can be argued.
The single ply polycarbonate panels that you find in the big box store do not hold up very well in our hall prone or weather environment. Multi-ply ploy panels are a lot stronger than any single ply panel, but they all can be damaged just like any other type of building panels and no warranty will cover so called "Acts of God!" Other complaints have been about the clear polycarbonate clear plastic roof panels used on the patio covers. One said it bake you like a green house. very bright and very warm. The opposite of what you want in a patio cover.
Who remember the Wendy's restaurants chain used to have the sunrooms, or solariums, were a staple of the chain's aesthetic in the 1980s, '90s, and 2000s. Changing architectural trends and a push for energy efficiency because those ploy panels got hot, and they would create heat in inside of their dining area and the air conditioners had to keep running and they are to blame for their demise.
These multiply ploy panels have poor thermal value or R value to them and that depends on its application. If you ever been around a skylight or inside of a greenhouse, they can put off a lot of heat.
How you can combat the heat transfer that can flow though these types of panels. Use darker colored panels. Build the structure up as high as you can and well above your standing height. Ventilation or solar vents, use fans or create an air flow or a breeze of some type.
Because these are strong and easy to work with, polycarbonate panels can be used in hundreds of custom projects. It has it purpose, you can build patio and pergola coverings, skylights, custom greenhouses and other structures with polycarbonate. They make a lot of sign, skylights and headlight coverings of polycarbonate for vehicles. Polycarbonates is the construction industry, e.g. for dome sky lights, flat or curved glazing, roofing sheets and light walls. Polycarbonates are used to create materials used in buildings that must be durable and light weight.
The polycarbonate panels come from the greenhouse industry. If you ever been around any greenhouse or even skylights in a home, there is heat that transfer though these plastic panels even if they have been coated to try to prevent UV lighting which does burns off the plastics over a period of time as the panels age and they get older you're going to get more heat transferring though these building materials.
The polycarbonate panels can be coated by the manufacture to reduce UV rays and also, they coated a coating anti-fungal coating because they are susceptible to molding, cracking and splitting. Those protective coating that can be less effective over time and when they age and these plastic covering can be scratched easily.
What works good in one part of our country don't also work good here in our Southern region of the USA. In a much cooler region, you may like to have some of Sun energy to shine on in, to help you warm up the area a little bit. Windows like skylights can be coated for UV in heat transfer that is allowed to come though those building products. In the southern regions we want to block out more of that that is allowed to come through any class or plastic poly panels. As these products age, the more of these coatings will dissipate and the less effective these coating become.
It is different story where is really warm and hot outside. The clearer the ploy panel the more heat is going to transfer though the panels and the more air flow you're going to need under the shade structure to keep it from feeling hot like a green house. The more heat that this trapped the more heat you're going to be feeling it unless you got a higher ceiling or more fans you need to force air flow. In this part of the country, we are running for the shade because it is cooking hot outdoors.
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