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It comes with a little cover/carrying sack, but it won't work if you want to leave it out. I just bought a generic cover off of amazon that fit the dimensions. It has a little drawstring at the bottom and is weatherproof. I can find it if you're interested.
I am actually. I have the sack it comes with but like you id like to leave it out and not have rain gather in it.
No felt = no english... that's more of an art piece that something I would ever use.
Just ordered a set for the same purpose.I may make them a little taller.
Don’t they looks like garbage (dim, and that super white light) and low quality? Or have you found decent ones?
I’ve never seen a solar powered outdoor light that didn’t look like a 1970s flashlight with corroded batteries.
About as bad as those colored LED lights people project at their houses during the holidays, because they’re too lazy to hang actual lights.
Ordered two. The wife was talking about replacing the huge pool umbrella and I wanted to get some kind of covered area for the area we typically eat near the pool. Hopefully these will satisfy both needs. I think these would look cool hung from good sized wooden poles?
Please post the type of PVC u purchase. Im NOT handy at all but would also make them taller. Are you just going to put PVC in ground and then put spike into PVC?
I put in a 6x6x12 and dropped it almost 4 feet down. Probably don't have to go that heavy. On the house I used Tapcon into concrete.
Not even close. Not sure what he’s talking about but any of the solar powered spot lights I’ve used look fine. I ran low voltage lighting myself in a bunch of spots close to the house but use the solar powered ones for trees in the yard. They look fine. Also, the solar powered path lights look fine as well.
I don't have one and am not a contractor, but you should be able to get away with a 4x4 if you you sink the post far enough in the ground. Over time that 4x4 is going to warp though due to the constant strain, unless that post is the center point and the two sails are pulling in opposite directions. If this is your long term house, or they don't negate each others strain, I'd go 6x6 and never worry about it again.
The polyester ones (cheap ones) are definitely not waterproof. You can get one made out of Sunbrella I imagine that is, but it would be substantially more expensive.
Water running through it is actually probably better in the long run. A heavy rain and water build up in the middle of the fabric leads to tearing, stretching heavy weight pulling down on the connections to the house/poles, etc. we have a gazebo cover that has one section that collects water rather than running off and I wish it just fell through the fabric. The weight of the water has totally bent up one of our gazebo ceiling support beamsflranger said:
Oh I much prefer it to leak through for my needs. I've had mine up (pictures in original post) for about six years. I replace the sail every other year but all hardware is original. I take it down for winter, which in Central Florida is about November to February and before any tropical system moves in. We get serious thunderstorms daily, with rain rates of 2-3" per hour although it may only last for 20 minutes. Flows right through like a strainer.
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