Yeah time flies. I hear others say it all the time, so I don't feel quite so all alone when I say - the older I get the faster time goes. It seems like it was just yesterday we re-built the carport, but apparently that was in 2002 - a full 14 years ago! First a little background. The carport was here when we got ol' 173, and here's what it looked like:
There's The Bruegger-Monster - such a great pooch! That's what the back yard at 173 looked like back in 1997, chain link fence, iron pole and the angle-iron carport with the plastic (?) roof. The yard went through some subtle evolutionary changes those first five years, then came
the great re-do of 2001 and 2002! Picket fences went up, and the roof of the carport was replaced:
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Just starting the dismantling. |
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Kai, a friend from Germany helped build the roof. |
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Looks like I was a little ungrateful for the help! |
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This shot looks kinda posed! |
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Enhancing the posts. |
Because of city codes, I really didn't want to take the carport down, but I did want a more substantial look to the posts, so I bolted wood to the angle iron to give it a totally different look!
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The posts look much more substantial yeah? |
That was all 14 years ago! And here's why that is impressive to me - I did it wrong, and it still lasted that long! For the roof deck I had used OSB, didn't put Ice and Water or even tar paper on it, didn't use pressure-treated lumber, and installed a tiny drip edge. Like I said - it held up pretty good all these years, but finally tragedy struck (don't you love melodrama??):
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You can't really tell here, but the rain gutter had fallen off. |
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Here's a better shot after removing the metal roofing. |
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Totally stripped down. |
After totally removing the roof, I put new cross-supports in using pressure-treated lumber this time! And I also used a combination of
Ice-and-Water Shield (almost all of the roof was covered because I had so much left over from the
gable project) and a small amount of tar paper. And for the sake of uniformity, I switched the roof material from brown to aluminum to match the shed.
Before the final reveal - here's another early shot of that corner of the yard and the carport:
And now!
A little better huh? Hopefully, in view of the fact that I "did it right" this time - maybe we'll get even more than 14 years out of this!
Next project!! Thanks for reading!