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Most people would define a garage as a completely enclosed room with a garage door for parking a car out of the weather, while a carport is a roofed-over parking space with open sides. When a carport is attached to a house, it usually has two or three open sides.
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Most people would define a garage as a completely enclosed room with a garage door for parking a car out of the weather, while a carport is a roofed-over parking space with open sides. When a carport is attached to a house, it usually has two or three open sides. This means that as soon as you add a third wall to a carport, like in the photo below, it becomes a garage and must meet all the fire safety standards required of a garage. The fact that the fourth side is open and there is no garage door does not make a difference. Because flammable materials are often stored in an attached garage, there are multiple code requirements intended to enhance the resistance of the walls and ceiling to the spread of a garage fire into the living area of a home. See our blog post What are the code requirements for fire separation between an attached garage and the house? to find out more. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Here’s links to a collection of our other blog posts about STRUCTURE AND ROOMS:
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