| Timber Car Ports - your professionally good | | | | people now use their garage as a 'lock-up' store. |
| looking, value adding, answer to improving your | | | | Yet more have converted them to a home |
| home's weather protection and releasing your | | | | office, extra bedroom, 'granny flat', or garden |
| garage to provide essential storage space, extra | | | | exercise or recreation room. |
| rooms, granny flat, exercise room, or home | | | | Rain & Snow |
| office, etc. | | | | With more and more cars being left parked in the |
| Easy to Build with Professional Good Looks | | | | drive, loading or unloading the kids, shopping, |
| Timber car ports - the solution you've been | | | | sports and short holiday break goods are |
| looking for! | | | | increasingly affected by Britain's worsening |
| That's right! | | | | weather. Rain... and more rain, seems to be the |
| Planning for a Car Port | | | | long term weather forecast for our summers, |
| Because car ports are considered to be | | | | with perhaps feet of snow in the winter. |
| 'temporary structures', they very often don't | | | | So, cars and people need the convenient |
| need planning approval. It's the same for some 'kit' | | | | protection that garages used to provide, but |
| or ready-made garages. Nevertheless there are a | | | | which UK homes now lack. |
| number of other regulations you will need to | | | | The 'Look Good' Factor |
| observe. For instance if the building will be closer | | | | Timber car ports are increasingly seen as the |
| than the front of the house to the road. | | | | solution. |
| You must also observe building regulations,where | | | | They can provide the protection you need, while |
| these apply. For instance making sure that your | | | | at the same time looking good so as to preserve |
| building is a minimum of 1 metre away from the | | | | and enhance the value of your home |
| boundary'. | | | | UK Planning Regulations |
| While generally building regulations may not be | | | | Now that the UK's town and country planning |
| applicable for detached single storey buildings that | | | | rules have been changed, in many cases you may |
| are over a metre from the boundary, if they | | | | not have to go through the rigmarole of |
| have at least 2 sides open on and a floor area of | | | | employing architectural designers and engineers to |
| less than 30 square metres, you may not need | | | | get permissions before you can build. |
| building regulations approval for a car port. | | | | Timber Car Port Solutions |
| So, easy to design, plan and build, these cost | | | | Whether you prefer a fully architecturally designed |
| effective professional timber structures add value | | | | independent solution to your requirements, or a |
| to your property at first glance. | | | | simple to erect, standard 'Kit' package that |
| Storage Shortage | | | | enables most competent DIY'ers to achieve |
| It is well known that Britain's houses are some of | | | | professional looking results with few, if any, |
| the smallest in Europe. Most have a severe lack | | | | problems, a Timber framed car port is most |
| of essential storage space. As a result many | | | | probably your best solution. |