has anyone got a carport?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Did you inherit it?

Feck, should have been in Caht.

Sorry.

No, it cost me a bloody fortune!

DH would love to have a carport. There are not so many up here in Scotland. He notices these things

We had one when we lived abroad and yes we inherited it.

off to google carport

Woman across the road tells me she has a carport. It looks suspiciously like a garage to me.

i like the look of them, i have a terreced house not no way of having a garage but this could be put over a drive (when we get around to putting in the planning permission)

Have I got a what?

They were a must-have in the 70s but seem to be quite rare now.

we rent

the house has a carport and two completely seperate garages (at the opposite side of the house to the carport).

we're not sure why.

I've heard it's the new FromRoadSignal that the house belongs to swingers.

Do you reckon they were signs of Swingers back in the 70s too?

I'm sure the houses with car ports in the street I grew up in also had pampas grass in the front gardens

I think they've gone out of fashion.
Used to have one...

lol @ Mrs

We had a carport when I was growing up. And pampas grass!

Oh Choufleur, are you revisiting all those hazy childhood memories?

aaaah, so <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.midlandcarports.co.uk/images/car-port-a1.jpg&imgrefurl=www.midlandcarports.co.uk/&usg=__f8XHBjcnS6-32BkGnzZIotwN3Fk=&h=218&w=290&sz=79&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=x97soo4cqkIOIM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=174&ei=Y7EDTuuDLI-YhQe_msH2DQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcar%2Bport%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1T4SUNC_enGB377GB378%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D651%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divns&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=504&vpy=250&dur=454&hovh=174&hovw=232&tx=139&ty=121&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:8,s:0&biw=1366&bih=651" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this would be a carport. A car gazebo. A bit...useless?

not useless. great for playing under when it rains. or for hitting a tennis ball endlessly against the wall after being told to "go out and play" by parents.

I stand corrected. That is a good game

Just like a chiffing great umbrella, with salacious overtones.

No, but the people across the road used to have one (in the 70s). Apparently it's better for your car to be under a car port than in a garage - because it protects it from the worst of the rain, but allows air to circulate so your car dries off quicker and is lesslikely to rust......

I have carport envy. I do not have a carport - just a plain old driveway, as does my neighbour. The two houses behind us are identical in most ways but they both have carports over their drives. They are newish houses - why would the builders do that? Build two with carports & two without? To be fair though, I only want one to keep my recycling bins dry .

Lot of justification there Norm.

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We have one (inherited). It sits at the top of our drive that is at least a foot too narrow to fit even a small car onto/up . It is an excellent out of back door dumping ground and clothes drying area though. It was also a fabulous outdoor/indoor smoking area at our party a couple of years ago.