[Jewelry making - Article 01678] - Re: [Orchid] Best canopies for shows

[Lisa Gallagher]

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Hi Norah,

    I personally have an EZ-Up and am quite happy with it as well,
    although I've never had to weather more than a simple rain with it.
    Lots of people have them & are pleased with them. I certainly liked
    the cost. I made 4 approx. 35lb weights, one hangs from each corner.
    I used it once in a light wind without weights & the darn thing was
    hopping all over the place, so now I won't use it without them. I
    know of folks who ended up with the more expensive types & would
    never consider the EZ-Up again, even if it does take three times as
    long to put up and it so much heavier to maneuver by onesself. I
    think the main thing they like best about them is their ability to
    not collect rain water on the roof. With the domed or vaulted
    roofline, the water is more likely to slide off, and with the
    pointed roof, the water has a place to collect, and if you don't
    remove it (like overnight when you aren't there to do anything about
    it) it will continue to collect until the tent simply collapses. Even
    if you are there to do something about it, it's rather annoying to
    both customers & other vendors if you poke up at the tent roof &
    allow a ton of water to suddenly be sent down to the ground. There
    are ways to minimize the water risk, though. With the framing that
    goes all around under the roof, one can slip a hula hoop up there
    between the framing & the fabric to alter the drape of the roof &
    give the rain fewer places in which to collect, that seems to work
    well. The way their made now, though, it seems, there is no framing
    in the ceiling, just one center pole (that's how mine is, I bought it
    last year). My neighor at the last show I did still used hula hoops
    to help with the situation, though. She had 4 of them (all solid
    yellow in color, so it didn't stand out too much), cut them, and bent
    them so the ends crossed, kind of like a fish shape. Hmm, this is
    kind of hard to describe. She put each one so that the crossed ends
    pointed down, and she lashed them to the center framing at the top of
    each wall, allowing the oval part of the hoop to point up and push
    out the roof fabric a bit. Basically, you want to give the water as
    little ground to hold onto. Instead of the yellow hoops (and solid
    colored ones are hard to find), I wonder if you couldn't use some
    similarly sized pvc pipe, at least it'd be white. I'll be thinking
    about that before my next outdoor show, just in case the weather
    calls for rain. 

Lisa
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