Quick Guide: Garages & Carports: Step-By-Step Construction Methods

This is a handy reference for general construction techniques. It isn't a big book, in fact it is only about the size of a magazine, but yet it covers so much. It starts with site selection, and goes all the way through siding and roofing. You may still need more detail about certain steps, but this will certainly get you going in the right direction. I think it's a book worth having on the bookshelf for future projects too.

This book covered all the basics. It is a good resource, although you will probably need more detailed information if you are going to build the garage completely by yourself.

When you start a major project, whether a do-it-yourselfer or a builder or contractor, you want the best and most up-to-date building instructions and guidance you can find. This book is the one that instructs you as to the hows and whys, giving good shortcuts in money-saving and time-saving techniques on building that garage or carport. As a general contractor who is on the job working with my crew, I found this one to be one of the best.

Here is a cogent, extremely useful book, one of a seemingly scant offering of books on the subject of building your own carport. (Garage construction is much easier to find reference material for) Unfortunately, this brief manual deals primarily with garage building, devoting less than equal space to the special problems associated with the construction of a free-standing, unseathed structure. Nevertheless, I found it most helpful as a starting point. Besides, how can you argue with anything that costs as little as the publisher charges for this book. You will be hard pressed to find a better value for your $8.