For Business Or Pleasure: Different Canopies And How To Repair Them
The word canopy denotes many things. It can be a canopy tent with or without a mesh screen underneath. It can be the canopy of a pop-up tent on the back of a truck. It can also be the large awnings over the front windows of a business or over your patio. Each of these canopies can, and often do, need canopy repairs. Here are the different canopy uses, and what you typically need to repair on each, as well as how to fix them.
Garden or Special Event Canopy
These are canopies that you often rent or buy and erect in your yard during the warmer months. Sometimes they are for special events, such as outdoor weddings. At other times they serve as a means of shade if you are having company over and sitting outside. Some also have 360-degree mesh screens around the canopy's vertical posts to keep hornets, flies, and mosquitoes from bothering you and your guests.
Whatever type of garden or special event canopy you use, you will encounter some problems eventually, especially if you own and use it a lot. Usually, the problem is that the canopy gets a tear in it, caused by a bad storm. This requires sewing or patching the canopy so that the rip does not get any larger. If the rip is a very large one, it will have to be sewn as there are no canopy patches that can repair large rips.
Pop-up Camper Canopies
With regular use or just over time, tiny rips can appear in the canopy of the pop-up tent. Most of the time you will catch these soon enough to place a stick-on patch over the hole. The other issue that happens with pop-ups is that the spring-loaded arms that push the canopy up can get rusted or broken. These will need to be replaced if you expect to get the canopy to lift and lower.
Business and Patio Awnings
These canopies are a little tougher than most material, but they can still get little rips in them. They can also get bigger rips if something (or someone!) falls on top of them or jumps from on high. Then you might want to replace the canopy entirely. The raise and lower mechanisms, which are either hand cranks or electrical machines, frequently get more damage than the awnings themselves, and thus have to be repaired by a company that does canopy repairs.