Glulam is probably three times as expensive as construction timber, calculated per volume unit. With a 7-meter span and center-to-center distance of 600 mm, the beams would need to be approximately 70x360 mm in cross-section, so it's not an option. With a glulam beam in the middle, resting partly on the garage wall and partly on a post in the middle of the carport entrance, you could solve it quite easily. To provide a hint about suitable dimensions, information about the depth of the carport is also needed.
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If you order glulam and have specified the correct dimensions, it is ready and cut to size when it arrives, just lay it out.
If you buy structural timber, there might be an extra meter for splicing, there's some waste because there wasn't that perfectly optimal length.
And then there's a plank that twisted.
I don't agree that glulam is so terribly much more expensive.
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If you buy structural timber, there might be an extra meter for splicing, there's some waste because there wasn't that perfectly optimal length.
And then there's a plank that twisted.
I don't agree that glulam is so terribly much more expensive.
Protte