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Can anyone provide any suggestions or recommendations, in terms of having a car port covering constructed. Our home is in Playa Hermosa, Guancaste. During our recent stay, during the dry season, our vehicle was parked in the car port, saturated by the sun and extreme heat. I would like the covering attached to my home, and approximately 30-40 feet in length.
Have you talked to a local builder about this? It doesn’t seem like it should be much of a challenge.
You can buy corrugated roofing in various lengths. A series of supporting posts along the outside edge with a beam above and some simple roof structure to support the corrugated roofing should do the trick. The posts could be wood, steel tube or masonry.
If you have 30 – 40 feet to play with, I’d suggest you use part of that length for some outside storage.
David,
Thanks for your insight. We are currently back in the U.S.. This is on my to-do-list; upon our next trip to CR.
Just make sure you have the appropriately sized “hurricane ties” for roof joists/rafters to walls. Use the Simpson joist-tie tables with the same wind uplift forces as Oregon/Washington coast. That is a lot of roof area which increases the surface pressure. Wind storms are the most prevalent/regularly occuring threat to structures in Guanacaste region.
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