alex robinson
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Been wondering about concreting and hoping to avoid it as it means not only more digging, but also harder to get weed matting continuously from inside to out. Like the look of the anchors. Never heard of them before..Ours is over 20 years old, now on its 2nd cover as we moved. The cover is trenched in and tensioned on a warm day by pulling the tube up the ground spike and putting the pin through the highest hole you can reach. Don't think that would work with plastic pipe though.Most of the commercial ones using base boards have plates on the bottom of the ground pegs, which are concreted in. I'd almost be tempted to bodge up something like a duckbill anchor on the bottom of your scaffold tubes to resist the potential uplift.
Our cats have found it's a lovely warm thing to snooze on top of but it's never caused a problem with the cover. Me sticking a cane through it was another matter
Keep an eye out for the clear tape in Aldi/Lidl, it's great for repairs
Looking to get 8ft poles, and whack them up to 4ft deep (we will see how that goes). Cut any spare to give 4ft vertical sides. How deep do you think it needs to be?
