Hello,
we are currently planning our house and are considering adding a combination of a carport with a workshop room.
It is not a traditional carport but rather a hip roof extending from the house wall.
The roof area is 6x7m (20x23 feet). Under this roof is a solid masonry room used as a workshop.
The company’s price for this is €26,000.
They mentioned that the roof is the most expensive part.
Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce the cost?
How can the roof be built more cheaply?
It is important that it remains a double garage, with a 10sqm (108 sq ft) workshop room at the back, and a hip roof.
Thank you
we are currently planning our house and are considering adding a combination of a carport with a workshop room.
It is not a traditional carport but rather a hip roof extending from the house wall.
The roof area is 6x7m (20x23 feet). Under this roof is a solid masonry room used as a workshop.
The company’s price for this is €26,000.
They mentioned that the roof is the most expensive part.
Do you have any suggestions on how to reduce the cost?
How can the roof be built more cheaply?
It is important that it remains a double garage, with a 10sqm (108 sq ft) workshop room at the back, and a hip roof.
Thank you
A real roof with roof tiles and so on costs a significant amount of money. You also need a proper wooden roof frame, etc. The cheapest option would be a metal roof. There are good quality metal sheets available with anti-condensation coatings that are not noisy in the rain. You simply lay these on top of the crossbeams and screw them down. A trim angle is installed around the edge, and the structure is finished.
Of course, it doesn’t look anything like a hipped roof, but it can be 5,000–6,000 € cheaper. By the way, with roof tiles, the corner pieces are expensive, not the straight main tiles. If you really want roof tiles, you should consider using a roof shape that doesn’t require those corner pieces.
The roof is always the most expensive part of a carport (even a metal roof for 7 x 6 meters (23 x 20 feet) costs over 1,500 € in materials). The rest is just wood, and it’s mainly about quantity (people often underestimate how much material they need).
P.S.: According to the regulations in many German states, a workshop room is not classified as a structure allowed to be built directly on the property boundary. It’s better to call the room a “garden storage room” or something similar (check your local building regulations/planning permission).
Of course, it doesn’t look anything like a hipped roof, but it can be 5,000–6,000 € cheaper. By the way, with roof tiles, the corner pieces are expensive, not the straight main tiles. If you really want roof tiles, you should consider using a roof shape that doesn’t require those corner pieces.
The roof is always the most expensive part of a carport (even a metal roof for 7 x 6 meters (23 x 20 feet) costs over 1,500 € in materials). The rest is just wood, and it’s mainly about quantity (people often underestimate how much material they need).
P.S.: According to the regulations in many German states, a workshop room is not classified as a structure allowed to be built directly on the property boundary. It’s better to call the room a “garden storage room” or something similar (check your local building regulations/planning permission).
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