Yaheetech Outdoor Cover Door Window Garden Canopy Patio Porch Awning Shelter

Arrived quickly, easier with 2 people to assemble, and definitely needed a rubber mallet to ensure a good tight fit between canopy and brackets. A couple of screws missing, managed to find suitable ones. Once assembled seems quite sturdy. As in other reviews there was a slight bowing of the back. Instructions aren't helpful, though found some good videos on the web on fitting this general type of canopy. The bolts to fit to the wall look to be reasonable quality, and once we worked out the method for fitting give a solid strong result : Hold canopy with brackets against the wall, mark holes to be drilled, after drilling , hold assembled unit against the holes (easier with 2 people but possible on your own ), insert fully assembled bolt with nut through the bracket holes, tighten nut. Note : Don't insert the sleeve without the nut attached. There is a gap at the back so you may need to fill this as mentioned in other reviews. In this case the canopy sits under a wooden panel so no penetration of rain etc. and didn't need to fill the gap. Looks good, has survived the recent storms, wind etc. so far. Not sure how the clear canopy will deal with the range of sun/snow/rain/ etc. over time , however for the price, it's good value.

I bought this for the second time - first one lasted 5 years then became discoloured. The canopy itself is polycarbonate and has open channels running through it. Moss eventually grows up the channels and is difficult to remove, so I covered the open ends with transparent tape so hopefully it'll not let moss spores in. Good quality for the price. Could do with better instructions but a reasonable DIYer will manage ok. The wall fixings have improved since I bought the first one but obviously getting the 4 fixing holes in the right position is imperative. Easier to position when 2 people do it - not easy for a single person to accomplish.

I purchased this canopy last month but due to excessive rain in my region, did not make a start on fixing it up until last week. I watched a video on You Tube before starting - and I recommend you do this too. The guy in the video suggests that if you are going to attempt the installation by yourself, firstly put the frame and acrylic sheet together as indicated in the "instructions" provided. (More about that later). Fitting the flat acrylic sheet into the curved end brackets is not as easy as you might think, because the sheet is VERY resistant to bending! You really would do better with THREE hands and arms for this part! You need the extra hand to push the sheet in the middle to bend it. Once you have forced one end of the acrylic sheet into the bracket, you then need to force the other end into the opposite end bracket. I suggest the easiest way to do this is to stand the canopy bracket (that you've just fixed into the acrylic sheet) on the floor, then force the second end bracket over the open end of the acrylic sheet, by firstly pushing the sheet into one end of the curve and bending the sheet as you push down on the upper bracket. When you have these main three pieces together, screw in two of the SMALL steel "bolts" supplied, which hold the end bracket to the acrylic sheet. Once this end is secure, you can flip the canopy onto the opposite end and screw in two more small steel "bolts", which I would really call screws. The instructions seem to have mixed up what the UK refers to as screws (which have a sharp end) with bolts (which do not). Later you will see that what they call "Setscrews" are really what we would call "Rawlbolts". Now - the advise for fitting one by yourself: The YouTube video suggests marking the four holes (where the end brackets need fixing to the wall) on a flat piece of wood, then drilling through the piece of wood and following through into your wall. For anyone who does not have a spare piece of timber, I suggest using one side of the thick cardboard box it is supplied in instead. Place the assembled canopy onto the box and mark the four holes with a pen/pencil through the holes in the end brackets onto the cardboard. Then drill or use a sharp tool or screwdriver to open these into 4 small (10mm) holes. Using a piece of cardboard against the wall is far easier than trying to hold the entire canopy up there, on a step ladder by yourself, especially as you would have to hold it with one hand, with no spare hand to hold the ladder - or to mark the wall either! If you have a standard/modern brick wall, then I assume that the bricks will be level, so you don't need a spirit level to check your markings are level BEFORE drilling! REMEMBER to check that if your canopy if being installed above OUTWARD-OPENING DOORS, that the outer (lowest) edge of the canopy is sufficiently far above the top of the doors. ( such as French doors/windows). You must do this before drilling, so hold the canopy in position with the French doors open below to check for clearance. No need of course, if installing above an inward-opening door or sliding patio doors. Another reviewer on here has pointed out that the 4 "SETSCREWS" provided, being 80 mm long are around the same width as a house brick. This is not good, because as another reviewer said, this means the innermost part of the Setscrew is beyond the innermost edge of the brick, whereas it needs to be INSIDE the brick when tightened to ensure a good grip! (It would have been better if the Setscrews provided had been 60 or 65 mm long for use in bricks). If you are drilling into stone, maybe no problem with the 80 mm long setscrews. Please DO NOT make the mistake of trying to "test" the assembly in situ beforehand, as suggested by one reviewer! By hammering the Setscrews even partially into the wall to check for alignment makes it virtually IMPOSSIBLE to remove them! Note that the 10 mm holes you have drilled only just allow the Setscrews to be hammered in - and once in - they are NOT willing to be pulled out, no matter how hard you try! As you try to pull the Setscrew out, the tapered nut expands the sleeve, forcing it open and locking the bolt sleeve against the drilled hole! Just make absolutely certain that your 4 pre-drilled holes are aligned as you want before hammering in the Setscrews!!! It is NOT CLEAR on the "instructions" provided that you MUST FIT the setscrews through the end brackets, so that the hexagonal bolt heads and steel washers are on the outside of the brackets and the bolt's expanding sleeves and retaining nuts are on the inside edges of the end brackets. The "Assembling Instructions" supplied are only 4 small diagrams - you have to guess what they mean! They are far from clear, to say the least and are the worst item in the entire canopy kit!

Materials are better than expected. Front and back are aluminium bars coated in plastic so are nice and solid. Sides seem to be made of some kind of soft PVC where the surface seems pliable but are pretty solid. Getting the screws into the rear bar was hard. I had to take apart and just work the screws in with a drill driver because you have to tap (thread) the aluminium holes as you go. The main panel had a few marks where the outer removable sheet was a little damaged. Not worried about that since it's going to be out in all weathers and likely covered in cobwebs in a few months anyway where I live. It seemed to not fit the gap and be short at first, but I believe this allows for thermal expansion and should be this way, so in all, once assembled it is fairly robust. Took me about 10 minutes to assemble, and I just threw the instructions as they are so bad you can't make anything out anyway. Good job everything can only go together a certain way which is pretty easy to figure out, as the slots are made to only take certain parts. The bolts, as others have mentioned should be thrown in the bin. Get yourself down to the local hardware store and pick up some proper anchor bolts. These will come apart with a slight bit of wind. They don't even open up properly so will be loose in most brick walls and easy to pull out. I'm actually screwing into wood so it's not an issue for me.

Ok