"panabiker" wrote in message
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I am thinking of getting a 10'x10' canopy that is made of fabric top
and a frame with 4 metal legs, and set it up on my back patio. The
patio was build with 6"x9" paver bricks. My question is, how should I
anchor the legs onto the patio. Each leg has 4 screw holes. If I
simply drive some screws into the bricks, would they keep the canopy
from being blown away (under reasonable summer weather)? These bricks
are not bind to each other but tightly put together with sand filling
the gaps. Would screws even stay in the bricks, or will they crack the
bricks?
After my second such canopy blew away in a storm, I gave up. I had them
anchored into a poured concrete slab and on the second one I added guy ropes
tied to big screw in anchors like they use on farms to hold down in ground
silo covers. The wind just twisted the canopy into pieces and blew it out
from under the canopy top. If I remember correctly, the instructions for
these things say to remove the fabric top in the event of storms or wind.
Of course this was at the end of the intructions and kind of lost in the
print. And the fabric top was not something you could easily take down and
put back on. The canopies I used were in the $350 range, not the $100
instant up ones. The instant up versions that you could just put up when
you were planning something might be a better way to go.

Tom G.