Carports: Prices and Benefits

If you are thinking of a tensile structure for cars To protect your property or offer an additional service to your business, this article will provide all the information you need. At AmarantoIdea, we've been building tents and tensile structures for over 20 years, and we understand how important it is for customers to be informed and guided before making a decision.

Let's see what the advantages of a car tensile structure compared to the classic gazebo or wooden structure and what are the prices.

Car covers: types on sale

With climatic events With hailstorms becoming increasingly unpredictable, it's now essential to have a means of protecting your car. Just think of all the exceptional hailstorms that have occurred in Italy in recent years and the thousands of vehicles damaged!

Whether we're talking about private individuals, companies, or dealerships, it's impossible to do without a protective tensile structure.

The types of coverage available on the market can be summarized as follows: three categories: let's see the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Gazebos for cars

Carports have the great advantage of being inexpensive covers – starting from around €800 – customizable and easy to assemble. structure It is usually made in Iron and the dome is made of polyester fiberThe main disadvantage is that many gazebos have the open sides. Not a problem when it comes to rain, but a big risk in case of hail. Openings on all four sides also make gazebos less safe, even in case of attempted theft.

Wooden canopies and photovoltaic shelters

Le wooden sheds for cars they are definitely products of great quality and aesthetic qualities.
Le photovoltaic shelters, on the contrary, are very useful from a practical point of view for energy production, even if they lose quite a few points in aesthetics. The major disadvantage of these two types of car covers is the very high price, in both cases!

For this reason, wooden carports are used almost exclusively for covering a few cars in private homes, while photovoltaic shelters are used for large companies or public parking lots – as they can offset costs thanks to the energy generated by large installations.

Another critical issue in this case is also the side openings which do not provide full coverage of the cars.

The last type of coverage is the PVC car tensile structure, which is the only one of the three we deal with at AmarantoIdea. Why did we choose to offer this product rather than the others? Because in our opinion in this case the The quality-price ratio is unbeatable.

PVC carports offer the unique opportunity to combine the advantages of a much more expensive brick garage with the flexibility of a carport, at a very affordable price.

The advantages, specifically, are the following:

• protection from UV rays, rain, hail and snow;
• greater protection against theft and vandalism;
• quick and easy assembly and disassembly;
• low costs.

Even if the tensile structure is often associated with the covering of large car parks, in reality the dimensions are completely customizable and we have created dozens of small-sized covers suitable for the protection of two or three cars.

As we have anticipated, PVC tensile structures are versatile structures that can be used to cover even public and company parking lots medium and large sized as well as car fleets of dealerships and rental points. 

Fixed or mobile car covers

When choosing the right tensile structure for your needs, the first thing you should ask yourself is: fixed or mobile? The advantage of a fixed cover is that it offers a safe haven for your vehicles in all seasons, even if you plan to use it less in the summer. 

However, there are several reasons why you might need a temporary cover. Examples may be:

•  tensile structures for dealerships, built only during periods when the car fleet is best stocked;
• parking covers that are used only in certain seasons.

In any case, at AmarantoIdea we have the right accommodation for you. You can choose between:

• fixed steel cover;
• mobile aluminum cover, with structure plug & play easily disassembled and stored in a small space.

Prices of car tensile structures

As with any other tensile structure, it is not possible to offer a real price estimate without knowing the dimensions, which are the main variable in cost.

For a 10*10 pagoda tensile structure closed on all four sides Prices start at around €5.000 while they can easily reach the €40.000 for 20*40 structures.

A lot also changes based on the study material: generally the Aluminum car tensile structures are the most expensiveHowever, in AmarantoIdea, thanks to our long experience in the sector and our innovative structure plug & play We can offer aluminum structures at an extremely advantageous price – even lower than steel ones!

If we think that for a single garage the prices are around €15.000The advantage is obvious. Likewise, the cost of building a wooden shed is much higher. 

Do you need to protect your cars from weather? Contact us for a quote: Don't wait for the hail!