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Open Roads Forum  >  Travel Trailers  > Metal Carport (Lesson Learned) This Topic Is Closed  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next 1ed • View posts Northern California Senior Member Joined: 08/02/2003 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 08/28/10 11:03am Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I am thinking of putting up a metal carport for the trailer and can't decide if I should just do the top or top plus one side or what. For those who have put up the metal cover what would you have done differently. tvman44 • View posts Southwest Louisiana Senior Member Joined: 09/25/2007 View Profile Offline Posted: 08/28/10 11:38am Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I closed both sides and the rear to the ground and would do it again. Papa Bob 1* DW "Granny" 1* 2008 Brookside by Sunnybrook 32' 1* 2002 F250 Super Duty 7.3L PSD Husky 16K hitch, Tekonsha P3, Firestone Ride Rite Air Springs, Trailair Equa-Flex, Champion C46540 "A bad day camping is better than a good day at work!" Art D • View posts Louisiana Senior Member Joined: 03/06/2004 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 08/28/10 11:47am Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I left both ends open and the sides about halfway down. I'm thinking better air circulation is good because of the heat and humidity down here, and less wind resistance in case of high winds like in a hurricane. But that's all debatable. Geaux LSU calvinator • View posts Cleveland, Ohio Senior Member Joined: 03/28/2009 View Profile Offline Posted: 08/28/10 12:00pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I park my MH under a metal carport -roof only. Keeps the sun, rain, and snow off, but that's it. Wind blown rain, dirt, and grime still all over the place when I take my MH out. I have to wash my rig a lot. However.... I wouldn't enclose it. Nice to have a roof, but still get natural sunlight for those times when you want to work on the rig or use as a workshop area, etc... 1992 Seven Seas by Cobra Overhauled & Customized. Vacation rig for DW, DS(11),DS(10),DS(7)and a mighty Maltese. Fav mod=Hott Rodd elec water heater - no propane!. Jeep Cherokee toad w/Excali-bar and ReadyBrake 2011 nights camped=1, plan=20 (broken leg) JIMNLIN • View posts out here Senior Member Joined: 09/14/2003 View Profile Posted: 08/28/10 12:38pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator My current shed doors are 14' full length and face the west. The sides are open 40" off the ground for air circulation. The rear is full length. This is the second shed I've built this way. "good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" ............ Will Rogers '03 2500 QC Dodge/Cummins HO 3.73 6 speed manual Jacobs Westach '97 Park Avanue 28' 5er 11200 gvwr two slides wrenchbender • View posts Phx Senior Member Joined: 06/04/2005 View Profile Offline Posted: 08/28/10 02:23pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I just bought the farm and built a 35x 40 toy barn.The best investment I ever made. Fisherguy • View posts Vancouver BC Senior Member Joined: 07/31/2003 View Profile Offline Posted: 08/28/10 08:03pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Where we are I'd need to leave the back open to get more room to manometer it backing in and out of the back yard but I'd get the sides covered about as low as the top of the trailer or slightly lower so less rain etc for the trailer, I don't think I'd enclose all the sides, I'd leave the front open as well. 06 Dodge Ram 3500 Cummins 6 spd std with a few goodies. 2007 Komfort 274TS, SteadyFast stabilizers, Trimetric 2025RV, PD9280, Honda EU2000i, Xantrex SW600, shocks and EZ-Flex suspension, Reese Strait-Line GeoBoy • View posts Northeast Senior Member Joined: 04/15/2006 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 08/28/10 08:21pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I had a VersaTube shelter put up and it is sided half way down and the front and back are open. This way I am taxed differently than an enclosed structure. samsontdog • View posts Oregon, Wash Coast summer, Yuma Az winter Senior Member Joined: 08/06/2002 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 08/28/10 10:48pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I have a 40 ft metal with the rear all the way down and one side all the way down. One side is half way but I put up chicken wire and have IVY completely covering the wire. The front has the shade curtain that rolls up. I wish that I had made it wider so I could open the slides and work in the TT samsontdog surveyorjp • View posts Missouri Senior Member Joined: 09/05/2005 View Profile Posted: 08/28/10 11:06pm Link  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator I helped Dad build one for his TT a couple years ago. We covered the roof, and halfway down each side. He is considering covering the back about halfway down as well, but we haven't yet. It works well for his TT, and I wish I had one like it for mine. Keeping them under a roof adds many years to their useful life. 2005 Surveyor SV-291 1995 Dodge Ram 1500 Laramie SLT 4x4 5.9L V8 (87,000 miles) This Topic Is Closed  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next Open Roads Forum  >  Travel Trailers  > Metal Carport (Lesson Learned)

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