• You make savings on your building budget: a carport is less expensive than a garage in the home. A wooden carport can be integrated perfectly into your garden. Collstrop offers carports starting from €1,600.
  A garage is significantly more expensive than a carport. The average price per m² is easily between 600 and 800 euros/m².
• The open structure of a carport means there is less condensation on your car. It is generally accepted that a car’s bodywork suffers from rust and corrosion less quickly if it is stored in an open, uncovered carport, since moisture condensation does not accumulate there.
• You save on living space: the garage in the home could be used for extending the kitchen or living room.
• There is also more space for opening car doors than in certain garages.
• In practice, an open carport often turns out to be much more secure than a closed garage. This is because thieves are much more likely to be noticed in an open carport.
• You save on heating costs: a garage in the home is often poorly insulated and when opening the door, a great deal of cold air unavoidably enters.
• Less hassle with your car in winter: a carport protects effectively against ice forming on your car. No more ‘scraping’ during winter.
• Collstrop Garden Carports can even have sun boiler installations or solar panels fitted on top of them, in a subtle and non-visible way.

(Source: “Beter Bouwen & Verbouwen” magazine)

How to choose a carport
Although a carport may seem to be a fairly simple structure, strength, stability and deflection studies are crucial when protecting your car and personal safety are at stake. Before a Collstrop carport goes into production, it is submitted for analysis by an external agency.

In order to perform an accurate price/quality comparison, it is best to compare the following issues:

• What materials is the carport made from? Are these durable?
• What wooden sections (thickness of the components) are used and how deep do the stakes go into the ground?
• Have double supports been provided?
• Have gutters, drains and roof covering been provided?
• Is the carport modular, so that is can be easily extended later? 
• Do you receive any guarantees?
• With each Collstrop carport you will find a numbered certificate of authenticity.

Best of luck