Heavy wall steel pipe for sun sail

[longrange2]

Great tip on the sleeving, I hadn’t thought about that. Hatidua, how is your sun sail holding up? I figure we’ll be taking it down in the winter so it will only be up a few months of the year.

[hatidua]

Hatidua, how is your sun sail holding up? I figure we’ll be taking it down in the winter so it will only be up a few months of the year.

I'm really surprised that we still have the original sail and told my wife as much when we put it up last week. I bought the sail off eBay six years ago and figured for the price (around $70 if I recall) it'd be a one-season item due to the UV and wind here. I take it down before the first snow each fall and put it up at the beginning of each summer or when I think snow is no longer a risk. It is fine with heavy rain, but absolutely will not support snow, even a little. Other than a bit of discoloring directly above the lamp on the table (kerosene soot), the thing is as good as the day I bought it. It takes about ten minutes to completely take it down, or put it all back up, including tensioning it via chain and turnbuckles. There is a 2"x12" metal backing plate on the opposite side of the wall on the two corners that attach to the house, anything less would pull out as I'm just a couple blocks from the hills and the wind can be extreme at times.

The black PVC caps on the top of the pipes are from the plumbing department at Home Depot, a complete coincidence to find them but they fit perfectly.

This is how it looked five minutes ago, now six years old. Even in this photo, you can notice a very slight outward pitch to the poles: