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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which are a canopies or awnings not a roof.

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  • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck off lmao. A canopy is a roof.

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No it’s not, if you asked to have a roof installed and someone installed a fucking canopy over your house, you’d be pissed.

      This is like asking for a truck and they show up with a station wagon and tell you well it’s got foldable back seats.

      Words have meaning.

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• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where are you designing these that they don’t need to support hundreds of pounds of snow or rain, or stand up to hail?

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  • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Northern/Western Europe.

    Hail bounces off, rain flows off. For a very light duty structure like a smoking shelter, bike shelter or trolley corral, they sometimes have a curved plexiglass roof that snow can just fall off or be blown off. A person is a much more intense load than snow (a person’s whole weight can be on one foot). The frame might take it, but the cladding may not.

    Usually they are just a product off the shelf.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My parents just bought and installed a small off the shelf carport, it has its own built-in gutter system and the ability to hold 100s of pounds on its metal roof. Nobody is covering cars with plexiglass, that would literally defeat the purpose of having shade.

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      • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’ve seen the plexiglass ones he was talking about

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      • paranoia@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Here’s one for sale in Denmark, where I am, and where it snows. Polycarbonate instead of PMMA. Same thing. I wouldn’t stand on it.

        https://dancovershop.dk/products/carport-arizona-2-89x4-95m-palram-canopia-gra

        Get an opaque sheeting if you want to keep UV off. Point stands.

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