Patio Covers and Porches in Pharr, TX

• —A cover or a carport counts as a structure, and a city looks at it through different rules than a roof or a fence. Once the layout is drawn we take it to Pharr and find out what your address needs.
• —Whether the frame attaches to the house or stands on its own can change what gets asked for. We confirm that with the city once the layout is settled.
• —Whatever the city charges to review a structure, you see that amount before you sign, kept apart from the build price. It gets confirmed for your address rather than carried over from the last job we did.

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Which homes has David Aceves helped build?

I park a crew cab pickup. How tall does the carport have to be?

We measure your truck with whatever rides on it, the ladder rack, the toolbox, the antenna. Then we set the clearance at the low side of the slope, because that is where the frame sits lowest and where a rack catches first. The extra post section and the deeper hole that a taller frame needs are both priced before you agree to the height.

On a deep lot south of the expressway, attached to the house or free standing?

Free standing, in most of those cases. A deep lot lets you put the shade where the afternoon sun lands, not where the wall happens to be. There is no tie-in to leak later. The trade is footings, since the frame carries its own wind load with nothing to lean on.

Can the carport posts share a line with the fence along my driveway?

No. A fence post is sized to hold a panel against wind, not to carry a roof. We keep the two structures on separate footings, even when they run parallel a foot apart. That also means a fence repair years from now does not put a jack under your carport.