Love the video including the wayward screws. It used to be that “experience is what you get just AFTER you needed it”. This provides the experience before you need it. I think I would drill pilot holes in all the female ends of joiners before assembly and use those to guide the drill/driver for the rest of the hole. And although the song said to, you never needed to shake a Polaroid picture. I used to design the cameras!
that duct tape and screws sounds like a good idea. thanks because i have no choice but to buy something to cover my bikes and mower until i get my shop built. and the way things are going it might be years before i ever get to work on it.
We just built one of these last weekend I’m impressed with it very satisfied overall. we did not try zip screws however we used gorilla duct tape and we used flat block on the ground (flat concrete blocks the solid kind) and I used a small Masonary drill bit and drilled holes in the blocks and then used tap com screws to screw down the feet of the garage into the concrete blocks it gives it weight so it doesn’t blow away. you can use ground anchors if you’d like how ever I understand the ground anchors that came with ours will back on their own after a while so we did not use them. We’re going to use our gasoline powered earth auger we bought at Harbor Freight and drill a couple holes 🕳 about a foot or so deep inside the garage probably along the sides at or near the ends and put some heavy duty long U-bolts in the 🕳 holes and then put in some sack Crete so we can use some of that heavy duty vinyl coated security cable with loops at both ends so we can lock up our more valuable items riding lawnmower Rototiller push mower etc. etc. and in that a way we would be adding A little security to the shed as well.
Nice vid and good info. I think my uncle has one for hay storage but had the tarp replaced with formed sheet metal… have you considered trying that?? Seems like u get decent use out of these!
I still don't understand how to do the ends, but I lost the instructions. I looked up them and they don't make any sense, but based on your video I installed the bottom side poles prematurely. I am going to watch some more videos.
@@drippingwax that’s funny sounds like something I would do. The first time I put one up, I put it together wrong. Can you believe those polls on the front and back? I actually squished them through the front and back flaps like the horizontal ones I don’t even know how I got them through and I was swearing at China the entire time that they didn’t make the sleeves big enough I finally got them through but I’ll tell you what that tent stayed up probably 78 years before wind broke the side of it. They should make those flats bigger on the front and back and you should put the vertical pulls through them as well like I did the first time that was the sturdiest when I put up.
Im glad im a year late to the show, did they all hold up through the winter? What was the heaviest snow you got and did you have to clean off the canopy roofs? I saw one of these collapse under snow load on an old corvette (😮) but i dont know if it was properly assembled/pulled taught. I want one to use as a semi-pemanent hot tent for winter camping, but rolling up to a collapsed tent would suck!
Mine is still up as all four that I have installed in the past they usually last for 5 to 7 years at the very least if not more. If you construct them properly, you should have no snow buildup on these the snow will roll off the top because the angle is so great on the roof with the plastic. I’m not sure what you’re talking about the snow building up on rods but no snow builds up on mine. If you have any other questions, let me know and thanks for watching
And yes, we get bouts of extremely heavy snowfall here. Plus, I live near farmers field phone in the winter time the wind blows ferociously, and these things stand up to it.
@tsaipod appreciate the info! So, considering your experience my neighbor's canopy just was not pulled tight enough then, the snow collected on the roof in-between the supports (over a few days), and collapsed, that was why I wanted to know if you were clearing it off between storms or anything (my campsite is remote). But this seems like a viable option now, thanks!
Yes! If you don’t do it right and don’t pull the material tight the material will droop and not only snow but rainwater will collect in the material on the roof. If you pull it tight this will not happen. They last many years
