In my relentless efforts to make the County happy...I have to close off one end of my carport.."no one driving by wants to look at those ugly machines" (end exact verbal quote of lady inspector)
I scored a nice steel roll up door, was told it was 10' wide..but its
12' 5" wide x 7 feet tall.The problem is...my carport is 11' 1.5" wide with a roof line that tapers from 11' down to 7' 6'
Now I can cut the door narrower..by about 3' to clear the tapering roofline and making the rollup door about 9' wide, ...or I can mount the roll on the OUTSIDE of the carport...letting the roll be above the roofline on one end, and then box it in to hide the roll. Not gonna be pretty..but.."the ugly machines wont be visible from the street" and I can make the box out of OSB covered light square tubing, and paint it to match the house.
Are there any bad downsides to doing this? Other than having a gap that might have what little rain we have here (4" a year) run down the inside of the door...... and I might be able to flash it a bit with sheet metal
I Could lift the roofline the 9ish inches necessary to clear the roll..but it would look really really wierd being done on one end..and leave a wide gap above the rain gutter on that end for a few feet.
I put a 4x6 steel tube on the two 4" steel posts that follows the roof line
Lastly..I could lower the roll, and give myself a door opening about
6' 5" tall, and put the roll inside. Given that Im 6'3+ in boots and often wear a cowboy hat.......In the pictures..the horizontal 2x4 is at 7' and is only there to be a common reference point as "grade" has a slight angle down to the building. The lot is low at the rear..and at the left side....the roofline is almost 3' higher above ground at the rear end....sigh
The bottom of the 2x4 is where the bottom of the "box" hiding the roll would be and the box would be full width and would cross below the roof line at about 4' to the left of the right hand post..about 17" x
17" in cross section and extend a bit past both posts.What to do..what to do????
Gunner, who has to put this up Sunday...
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality", John F. Kennedy.