Will a carport canopy work on a slope?
June 5, 2013 12:53 PM Subscribe
Will a plastic canopy work as a carport for a driveway on a hill?
The driveway to my duplex is under the world's messiest tree, and I don't want to subject my car to any more of it. I was thinking of getting something along these lines to ward off the worst of the sap, needles, and unidentifiable tree-grunge. The problem is that the driveway is very steep. The slope is straight down, and then there's a smaller flat area right in front of the house, but the flat area is barely the length of my car, so I can't put the canopy on it. The slope is even, so I don't need to worry about the canopy being off-kilter, but will it work at all?
The worst problem I can think of is the whole assembly migrating down the hill onto the flat bit until the middle legs are off the ground, causing the whole thing to buckle. Without being able to drill holes in the concrete, is there a way to prevent that?
I don't want to use a car cover, because that would just get nasty really fast, but I'm open to other alternatives I haven't thought of.
The driveway to my duplex is under the world's messiest tree, and I don't want to subject my car to any more of it. I was thinking of getting something along these lines to ward off the worst of the sap, needles, and unidentifiable tree-grunge. The problem is that the driveway is very steep. The slope is straight down, and then there's a smaller flat area right in front of the house, but the flat area is barely the length of my car, so I can't put the canopy on it. The slope is even, so I don't need to worry about the canopy being off-kilter, but will it work at all?
The worst problem I can think of is the whole assembly migrating down the hill onto the flat bit until the middle legs are off the ground, causing the whole thing to buckle. Without being able to drill holes in the concrete, is there a way to prevent that?
I don't want to use a car cover, because that would just get nasty really fast, but I'm open to other alternatives I haven't thought of.
Response by poster: I've been thinking about this for nearly a year now, and this question sprang from my actually gearing up to take action. I had the canopy in my Amazon cart, ready to click 'buy' when I had worked out the details -- I was thinking I could use resin planters instead of plastic buckets, and then grow vines in them to reduce the ugly factor, for example.
Today a bunch of tree cutter people came and cut away every single branch that was above the driveway.
So never mind!
posted by darksasami at 9:56 PM on June 11, 2013
Today a bunch of tree cutter people came and cut away every single branch that was above the driveway.
So never mind!
posted by darksasami at 9:56 PM on June 11, 2013
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posted by CancerMan at 1:37 PM on June 5, 2013