Yaheetech Front Door Canopy Outdoor Awning, Window Garden Canopy Patio Porch Awning, Rain Shelter Cover 120 x 80 cm Black

The canopy is great easy to put together yes it is a two people install.

Bit more expensive than some but its well worth it, Brilliant!. We had one that had 2 sections of perspex and it buckled in the wind, was rubbish, this is a game changer. solid, looks great. I fitted it on my own which was a bit of a faff measuring and lifting up the ladder but if you can get help it will take half the time and make your life so much easier. I used clear adhesive tape on the edges for an extra seal, then used adhesive, sealant mastic in the grooves on the frame and underneath once fitted. Bought 3, 1 for the back door and 2 to protect our AC units outside. Great item

We installed a double width canopy (two single canopies joined together) above a single door and a solar battery. Quite light weight and relatively easy to assemble (at ground level) but they had to be fitted individually as they were very flimsy at the join. The instructions were generally ok but I chose to use a 10mm drill for the M10 bolts supplied. It took 2 people to install; we put up one side first then fitted the second to the one already up… fiddly when on 2 step ladders but achievable. Too early to comment on durability or water resistance (drought).

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.

Need 2 people to put it up as was difficult on my own but now it’s up it looks good and works well. The bolts to hold it to the wall could be better but do work. Handles wind well and diverts the rain well also. Good value for money and would buy again

Item arrived in good packaging well ahead of time Very please with how it looks Looks better than expected

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!

A simple canopy from a twin wall plastic sheet, a couple of fairly substantial plastic moulded arms and a couple of aluminium trim bars. The instructions for fitting are woefully inadequate and no measurements are provided for the fixing holes. I put the frame together loosely without the plastic sheet in order to work out the placement then drilled the 10mm holes for the anchor bolts. Here I made the mistake of pushing the anchors flush with the wall when they actually need to be proud of the wall by 1cm at the bottom and 1.5 cm at the top so that they will fit inside the matching holes in the arms (see picture). Having got the frame to fit nicely I took it down and reassembled it including the plastic sheet which doesn't really want to bend much so this is the time to go and find some help. With the sheet installed and the screws holding the trim bars tightened the whole unit is fairly rigid while being light in weight. I suggest that it absolutely takes two people to get the canopy back on the anchors and bolted up. A small problem that I encountered was that three of the bolt heads were 13mm and one was 14mm; not a major issue but annoying. Check that you have the right size spanners before you start. A bead of sealant will eventually have to be run where the actual canopy meets the wall but that will just be a finishing touch. We now just await some rain to see what protection the canopy provides.