A steel car port is one of the best ways to construct a shelter which is environmentally friendly. Steel buildings are often constructed of recycled steel and 95 percent of the water used to produce steel is recycled. In fact, America recycles more steel than plastic, paper, aluminum and glass combined. This is not really surprising, since steel goes back so far, dating back as much as 4000 years as an archaeological dig in Anatolia revealed.
Metal carports and metal garages, which go back to the Prairie School architects from the early 20th century, can protect a car from hail damage which is typically not covered by insurance. Metal carport kits can help people set these ports up. Car ports were first named by Frank Lloyd Wright, who told a client that it should not be called a barn. After all, a car was not a horse. That being said, car ports resemble newer barns, which are often made of metal instead of wood.
This is important to a lot of Americans. Approximately 7 percent of Americans own a recreational vehicle. Car ports can also be used for storing boats. Recreational sales of boats increased by six percent to 32.3 billion USD in 2011 and Americans own somewhere around 18 million recreational boats.
Car ports can be environmentally friendly. Most of them are made out of sheets of steel which is known as the “EnviroMetal” because it is recycled endlessly with no loss to quality. Millions of Americans recycle steel every year in North America. Some estimates suggest that as many as 80 million tons of steel are recycled every year.
This does not mean that car ports can be widely used or implemented everywhere. There are some places where there is no room to put up car ports. For example, if the owner of the vehicle is renting a house, it might not be possible to set up a carport on the property. If a car owner lives in New York City, it might not be possible to find a place to park the car that will keep the weather off. But car ports are often an efficient way to stave off damage. In many ways, they look like the future as well as the past.