Hello all you talented people!
I am about to build a carport with a storage room under the same roof, just waiting for the driveway to be asphalted. Along with the groundwork/asphalting, the company is setting the support posts for both the carport and the storage room. I have tried to read up on how I should think about the storage room; is it good to have the asphalt as the floor in the storage room, or should I build a floor? If I'm not going to have a floor, can I use a sill to build the walls from? Or is it better to have a support post for each wall stud?
I am about to build a carport with a storage room under the same roof, just waiting for the driveway to be asphalted. Along with the groundwork/asphalting, the company is setting the support posts for both the carport and the storage room. I have tried to read up on how I should think about the storage room; is it good to have the asphalt as the floor in the storage room, or should I build a floor? If I'm not going to have a floor, can I use a sill to build the walls from? Or is it better to have a support post for each wall stud?
- Prevent the moisture in the ground from entering the storage.Pilla58 said:
- No water that may run into the storage during rain and snowmelt.
- If you make sills and floors, they will also remain intact, meaning they won't move as the ground possibly can.
- If you want to insulate later at some point in the future, it is also easy if you have ready-made sills (but you need to consider this a bit already during the construction).
Asphalt directly as a floor has the advantage of being cheap and simple if you don't have any major requirements for the storage otherwise.
Our carport, with a storage room under the same roof, was built before we moved here, so I don't know what the thought process was when choosing the flooring. In any case, there are concrete floors in both the storage room and the carport. As far as I can tell, they are two separate slabs (you can see a seam when looking from the outside). I don't know what function it serves if they are (possibly) two slabs. I think the concrete works excellently.
Thanks for the response, Urk! Rainwater etc. will probably still come in, it's just that I don't see it.... I won't insulate the storage (as I think now...) it's just going to be a tool shed.
The advantages, as you say, are that it will be cheaper and simpler with the asphalt.
The advantages, as you say, are that it will be cheaper and simpler with the asphalt.
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Yes, our storage has a threshold (I'd say semi-high to high
. It is not insulated, but it is built to be insulated (as far as I can assess). We have a self-propelled lawn mower that we lift and carry when it needs to be brought in for the winter, etc., but I don't think the threshold would be perceived as a problem when pulling over a "normal" mower.
. It is not insulated, but it is built to be insulated (as far as I can assess). We have a self-propelled lawn mower that we lift and carry when it needs to be brought in for the winter, etc., but I don't think the threshold would be perceived as a problem when pulling over a "normal" mower.Do you have a sill on the floor that the storage shed is built on, or are there posts on pillars?Modig said:Yes, our storage shed has a threshold (I would say semi-high to high
We have a self-propelled lawnmower that we lift and carry when it needs to be stored over the winter, etc., but I don't think the threshold would be perceived as a problem when pulling over a "regular" mower.