I just put this together by myself(53 woman) in about 2 1/2 hours. I saw where people are saying the ties on the outside of canopy are wrong,but what they are for us to tie through the black
Loops on each corner of the smaller netted top to keep it from flipping around in the wind. I sprayed the canopies with scotch guard before I put them on to help with waterproofing. Will update on the rest later.
Update after almost two weeks: so far my scotchguard is holding up well,I just wish I had been more careful to put it on everywhere because the few small areas I didnt allow rain through.
I see a lot of people talking about the grommets and rain puddling in between them. I went and bought Velcro with a tape side on the one piece and put it on the corners of post area and matched it and put the other connecting Velcro on the inside of the canopy top corners. They dont blow up in the wind anymore because that was annoying. So far it has kept all puddling away. I also bought water bag anchors from (I think it was master canopy brand) and attached them to the posts/just got them yesterday so we will see if it holds the thing down in wind. Im still going to attach to concrete patio blocks to be safe because I lost my Gazebo last fall to tornado level winds. I wont be able to remove the top during storms so we shall see how that works out too.
Just put it together
I just put this together by myself(53 woman) in about 2 1/2 hours. I saw where people are saying the ties on the outside of canopy are wrong,but what they are for us to tie through the black Loops on each corner of the smaller netted top to keep it from flipping around in the wind. I sprayed the canopies with scotch guard before I put them on to help with waterproofing. Will update on the rest later. Update after almost two weeks: so far my scotchguard is holding up well,I just wish I had been more careful to put it on everywhere because the few small areas I didnt allow rain through. I see a lot of people talking about the grommets and rain puddling in between them. I went and bought Velcro with a tape side on the one piece and put it on the corners of post area and matched it and put the other connecting Velcro on the inside of the canopy top corners. They dont blow up in the wind anymore because that was annoying. So far it has kept all puddling away. I also bought water bag anchors from (I think it was master canopy brand) and attached them to the posts/just got them yesterday so we will see if it holds the thing down in wind. Im still going to attach to concrete patio blocks to be safe because I lost my Gazebo last fall to tornado level winds. I wont be able to remove the top during storms so we shall see how that works out too.