Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ?

   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #21  
Dave,
Here's the link to the Farmtek site and it should take you right to the duckbill anchor page #319. The $8 price from cover it is pretty good if it comes as a complet kit.
The price now for Farmteks are up to $11. A little over a year ago I only paid $7 I believe.
Farmtek Duckbill Anchor page
 
   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #22  
Dave,
My garage is 26' wide x 24' long and is the round style. The anchors I used, if I recall correctly hold approx. 1200 lbs each. I only have 6 of the and my garage has not shifted one Iota in over a year. 12 / 14 of them would hold down a battleship. Do you really feel you need that many ?
 

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   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #23  
I just recently ordered some earth anchors from these guys.

Laconia Earth Anchors


They were easy to install and are working great so far. If you call they will tell you exactly what you need for your application. I was going to order anchors that where much larger than I needed and they steered me in the right direction.
 
   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #24  
Kevin,
Thanks for that link. There right here in my home state and I never knew they exhisted.
A very interesting anchor, very much like the duckbill, only differant. They seem to be about $8 bucks a piece.
I wish I had a use for some so I could buy some and try them.
 
   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #25  
If you get a cover-it, you might consider spraying the outside with silicone to help the snow slide off. I have been thinking about the cover on mine and looked it over once again this morning. I have a feeling that it might be the heavier fabric and that was all that was available in the beginning. They might have made that an upgrade later on to keep the price to a more reasonable amount since they went into selling in the discount houses. Don't know for sure. I would say that if someone were to look at it, they wouldn't be able to tell when it was erected, since is shows no signs of deterioration except for the one seam that opened. I would say that is a manufacturing defect that showed after 7 years..... I never close the zippers at either end and allow the air to flow through and this might be another reason that it hasn't deterioated...... just don't have an answer to those that have experienced short life of their cover-it....... Now if I can find the time to eliminate all the clutter that has accumulated inside the cover-it and get the old Bolens tractors back inside before the winter...... The new Kubota BX has evicted the Bolens!!!!!
 

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   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ?
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Thanks guys...

Coverit's $8 duckbill anchors come with the cable... steel driver I guess... clamps I dunno'... salesguy says the 12'x36' round needs 14 anchors...


About heavy snow possibly collapsing the structure... I figure I can brace the ceiling pipes with 2x4's from underneath 'em to the ground...

For a 12x36 round Coverit with 14 anchors & rollup door & 6% tax is like $1430 picked up... my next closest "turn-key" alternative is a totally pre-built 12x32 framed garage/barn structure with pressure treated floor at $6,400+...

Seems like i'll go with the Coverit... and make sure I have insurance... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif


Dave...
 
   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #27  
I have a grey 12X20 house-style Cover-IT, and it was great when I was using it (I never got around to putting it back up again after I moved). It is more of a pain to put together than they tell you in their marketing literature, but once it's up, it is a very sturdy structure. I was living at the top of a totally unprotected hill, and when we got storms, the wind blew at 90 mph quite a few times. Although the structure hung in there, it did flex and buffet like crazy - and the flapping noise it made when the air was rushing over it kept me awake at nights. I was parking a Viper GTS in it, and I spent many nights looking out my window with a spotlight just to make sure the thing wasn't shaking itself apart and getting ready to rip my car apart. It always held strong (thank God).

Those screw-in earth augers were great, but they are a nightmare to install. I needed to use a six-foot pry-bar and a sledge hammer to get them to screw in and it took me about five hours to get all six of them all the way in. Next time, I'm going to use those duck-bill things or some industrial tent stakes and drive them in with my jack hammer.

You'll definitely want to make a vapor barrier for the ground, and put some mesh down there to keep the critters from getting in. I put down a layer of 1/4" welded wire mesh, covered that with a heavy-duty Costco tarp, and topped it off with astro-turf. It came out pretty nice.

One other thing you might want to consider are the Handy Home garages. Costco sells them for about $2300, shipping included. I have one, and it's a hundred times better than the Cover-IT, and not much harder to put together if you have a pneumatic nail-gun. Here's a link to the garage:

Link to garage kit.
 
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mahlers...


Thanks for the info... that garage kit is a good option... but my tractor or truck won't fit the door height... " 8' W x 6' 3 1/2" H roll-up steel door (nominal size) "

Thanks for the useful ground cover tips...


Dave...
 
   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #29  
Re: Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one

I've had a cover-it for about 6 -7 years now in Texas so I can't talk about snow loads - but it holds up well against UV. Still looks like a new one. I put it up myself in 1 long day. Stood in the bed of the pickup to put the fabric on - worked well as a quick scaffold and moved it as needed. I moved it 1/4 mile this last year in 1/2 day - guess assy gets easier after you do it once. ... and I only half disassembled it - left the ends together and moved the top frame in 2 parts. Those duckbill anchors sound great - I'm using t-posts driven down then bent over - hard clay tough to turn a screw anchor into.
 
   / Coverit All Weather Shelter - Anyone Have one ? #30  
The entrance clearance is a problem for me, too. The 'true' dimension of the door is actually 6' 6" high, and then I built the garage on 4" x 4" bolted-down support plates around the foundation perimeter to raise the whole thing up an extra few inches. At this point, a tractor with ROPS folded down (about 76") will fit just fine. Add a backhoe, though, and all bets are off...
 

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