Carports built for what you park.

Usually, and it depends on size, siting and your council. In Victoria a building permit is required for any structure over 10 square metres, and that includes open carports. We can assist you through the building permit process. We are not the permit authority, but our permit team deals with councils, title searches and building surveyors every working day, and we bring decades of experience and knowledge to it. If you would rather handle the permit yourself, that is your call.

As a general rule, anything over 10 square metres needs a building permit, and a carport that fits a car is over that. There are exemptions, and they depend on your council, where the carport sits on the block and how close it is to a boundary. Tell us where it is going when you request your quote. Our permit team deals with these questions every day.

Start with what you park. A single carport for one car is usually around 3 metres wide and 6 metres long, a double around 6 by 6, and a caravan or a boat needs more height than length. Add room to open the doors and walk around, and think about what you will own in five years, because it is far cheaper to build a metre bigger now than to replace it later. Put your best guess in the quote form and we will size it properly with you.

Give us three measurements: length, width and the highest point of the caravan or boat on its trailer. We size the carport to those with clearance to spare.

Sometimes, and it is the question our permit team answers most. Where a carport sits on the block changes what the council will allow, and the rules differ between councils and sometimes between streets. We deal with front setbacks and boundary positions every day. Tell us where you want it and we can talk through what is usually possible.

No. Our carports are free-standing, on their own posts, and we do not attach to existing buildings. A free-standing carport can still sit right beside the house, over the same driveway, and it keeps things simpler: nothing ties into your wall or roof, so there is less for the engineering and the permit to deal with.

Often, and it is one of the first things we check. The posts need footings that suit the engineering for your site, and an existing slab or driveway may or may not give you that. Tell us what is there now and we will say what is needed. If new footings or a slab are required, the concreters we refer quote that as part of the job.

Everything above the ground: the posts, beams and frame engineered for your site, the roof sheets, gutters, downpipes and flashings in your colour, every bolt, screw and bracket, and the engineering drawings and certificate made for your site and your job, with the assembly plans. Permit help comes with it: we can assist you through the process, with decades of experience behind us. The slab or footings and the labour to put it up are separate, and we can refer builders and concreters for both.

A single or double carport is one of the simpler kits we sell, and two people with basic tools can put one up. Footings need to cure first, so allow for that. If you would rather not, the builders we refer do it regularly and quote the labour up front.

Sometimes, but it needs to be engineered for it from the start. A carport designed to stay open and one designed to take walls later are different structures. Say so when you request your quote and we will design for it.

Yes. A roller door on the front is one of our carport add-ons. It keeps your car and belongings out of sight from the street.

We only sell steel carports, so take this with that in mind. Steel does not rot, warp, split or need painting, termites do not eat it, and every carport we sell is engineered for your site and wind rating. Timber can look lovely and it suits some homes, but it is a maintenance item for the rest of its life. Ours are COLORBOND® steel, in the full colour range.

A carport is a roof on posts, open on the sides. A garage has walls and a door. A carport is quicker, cheaper and needs less from your block; a garage locks up. If you want both, a garaport is an enclosed garage with a carport roof in front, all one building.

It depends on the size, the roof style, the height, the wind rating at your address, and whether you put it up yourself or have it built. Two carports the same size can be quite different jobs, which is why every quote is tailored to the job. Tell us what you park and roughly where it goes, and your tailored quote comes back within one working day, with no obligation.

Yes. Plenty of our customers do, and a carport is one of the simpler kits to build. Plenty would rather not, and we can arrange a registered builder we have worked with for years to take on the whole build, and a concreter for the footings. If you are an owner-builder, we can introduce builders and installers we have worked with for years. You engage them directly, so you stay in control.

We deliver across Victoria and the NSW border region on regular runs, and by arrangement to Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and south-east Queensland. Check your suburb on our delivery areas page, or put your address into the quote form and it will tell you straight away. If we cannot help, we will say so rather than waste your time.