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Anchoring a Canopy onto Patio
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? |
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Anchoring a Canopy onto Patio
"panabiker" wrote in message ... 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. |
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