When it comes to your home life, the old adage that time is money isn’t necessarily the case, but it’s always true that you’d rather be spending time with your family and your hobbies than messing around with household chores like shovelling the snow off your car or keeping the garage tidy. Fortunately, there is a way to reduce the household chores as well as giving you extra space for your outdoor gear – a carport.
What is a Carport?
A carport is a quick and simple addition to the outside of your home. It’s usually a very simple post and beam structure with a solid roof. In the winter, it’ll keep the worst of the snow and ice off your car, and during the rest of the year it helps to keep your car free from debris from the Calgary winds. They can attach to the side of your house if you have space, or can stand alone on your driveway, and you can make them as large or as small as you need to for the number of cars that you want to protect.
How Does a Carport Save You Time?
Carports are relatively quick and easy to install, often taking less than a couple of days from start to finish. It’s also a budget-friendly option compared to building a whole new garage addition to your home. While you can never truly balance the books on time, the initial time investment is recouped in a number of ways, including:
- No more ice scraping – there is nothing worse than waking up on cold Calgary mornings and knowing that you have to spend time before your day even begins scraping and clearing the ice from your windscreen. Even if you have an automatic car starter, you have to remember to turn the heating on the night before, and it wastes gas. A carport automatically keeps the worst of the winter off your car meaning you can snag some extra time for yourself in the morning.
- Easy storage – during the summer months, you want ready access to your gardening tools, and it can be a pain trying to manoeuvre the larger tools around the cars in your garage. A carport offers you plenty of additional storage space and the lack of walls actually works in your favour as you’ll be able to access each tool when you need it. This can be especially useful when winter comes back round again and you need your ice and snow clearing tools at hand just outside your door.
- Less shovelling – finally, back in snow mode, a carport dramatically reduces the overall square footage of your driveway that needs to be shoveled. If you build a large, two-car carport, you’ll be amazed at how much less shovelling or snow blowing you need to undertake, which in turn gives you extra time each day to actually enjoy the winter months.
