Adding Metal Roofing Onto Portable Carport/Shelter - Harbor Freight Shelterlogic

As the years have gone by the tarp cover on our portable carport that covers our chicken run has progressively gotten more and more stretched out and was to the point where it would collect rain and snow rather than shed it off. This presents a huge problem in winter, threatening to collapse if you don't stay on top of clearing any built up snow or ice quite often. So this year I started searching for some cheap (or free) metal roofing in anticipation of improving our chicken run carport.

I struck gold when I found 20 used 8'x3' sheets for $40 on FB Marketplace. Normally these sheets would run $35 each at the box stores so I was stoked! I only used 14 of them and cut those all down to about 5.5' long using a Diablo Steel Demon blade on my 7 1\4" skilsaw so I have a few extras for other projects. Next I bought (6) 2"x4"x20' for $95 and a bag of roofing screws for $30 at a local lumber yard. Lastly I needed some shorter 2"x4" boards to used as cross supports so I hit my scrap wood storage shed and gathered a bunch of random length boards. With all the materials gathered I pulled out the tools and started the project!



****1.5 MONTH UPDATE****
We've recieved over 48" of accumulated snowfall since doing the roof and the carport has held up very well. It had about
12" on it in one day before we used a roof shovel to get the bulk of it off. That amount of snow would have most definitely collapsed the canopy if the tarp top was still on it and I hadn't done the metal roof. The roof does not have a steep enough pitch to constantly shed snow so there is still some maintenance required but there's peace of mind knowing that I don't have to worry about it collapsing if we get a snow storm over night while I'm not tending to it.


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Portable carport similar to the one I used w\ 1.5" steel tubes:
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Diablo Steel Demon 7 1\4" circular saw blade i used to cut the metal roofing:
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Metal roofing screws w\ rubber seal i used to fasten down the roofing:
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Impact ready 1\4" hex drive bit set i used to install the roofing screws:
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Roof snow shovel i use for removing snow when it builds up:
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