These things are great and have 100 different shade reasons to use them. I ran into this one in the Chapala Walmart and it was surprisingly well built. I bought it with the intention of using it here in Melaque. I put in 3 cement anchors on the left so it didn't fly away. Before it came down it was construction shade, shade for the car, shade for a few parties and rain protection for cement and mortar. I eventually built a large carport and laundry room behind that foto so it was starting to be in the way.
Then comes a community fund raiser at the weekly futbol games and women selling snacks and drink needed shade to sit in. Of course I loaned it to them for that. Somewhere in the 6-8 months of fundraising it was also shade for 2 church functions, a plaza fiesta, one school function and a birthday.
Hint: If you want these things to last a long time, make it yours and be in charge. With 15-20 people in charge the cover was in taters in less than a year. Hugo more or less patched it together for a large pig-roast party yesterday ..... and today a neighbor came by asking if he could use it for a wake. A friend had died and they like to put up shade in front of the house. All I could say is ask Hugo. It's his now??
You can buy replacement tarp covers - although they cost nearly as much as the whole kit from Costco or Sam's. Like you I installed my 'legs' in cement - but it doesn't take much wind to stress the thing out. Loaning anything out in Mexico will likely to be a challenge getting it back ;-0
ReplyDeleteMy tie downs were in cement but not the legs or I couldn't move/loan it. I didn't have much use or space for it so getting it back was not a concern. They could have taken better care of it
ReplyDeleteI assumed that. I cemented in the posts not having any plans to loan it out ;-) At least they are equal opportunity stuff abusers - they do not take of their own things either.
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