Re: Stock Storage

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:102c5u5$21oc7$2@dont-email.me...
On 6/10/2025 6:24 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:1029tpe$1dr7m$1@dont-email.me...
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I threw money at it and ordered the shade this morning.
Bob La Londe

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Which one?

This one.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/VIWAT-12-ft-W-x-20-ft-D-Metal-Carport-with-Enhanced-Base-Outdoor-Heavy-Duty-Garage-Galvanized-Car-Canopy-and-Shelter-MCR-M2012-DG-1/333138115
I'm not to worried about rain damage.  Dust wind are the big worries
here.  Rain will dry off of it quick enough.  I found cheaper ones, but
with freight they cost more.  This one was free freight to me.
Bob La Londe
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Nice!
I've never seen that style around here, perhaps because the horizontal corrugations would retain snow. The snow load design standard here is 70 Lbs per square foot, over a foot of solid ice, although some tarp shelters survive winter. At least tornados are rare.
I patched one that didn't with a tarp with its side edges stapled to and rolled around wood slats screwed to the uprights. The owner bounced snow off with a push broom from inside, until a particularly heavy night storm brought it all down on his truck, with the sharp broken tube ends making several punctures. I considered how to attach vertically aligned corrugated galvy panels, which would have cost nearly as much as the shelter you bought for the panels alone and more for (horizontal) purlins 2' or less apart.
Luckily before Covid I bought many spare galvy panels to quickly replace damaged ones before the firewood underneath gets wet. Now they cost twice as much and are two gauges thinner.
https://www.homedepot.com/pep/Gibraltar-Building-Products-8-ft-Corrugated-Galvanized-Steel-31-Gauge-Roof-Panel-13513/202092961?