More ways to use weights to anchor your gazebo

As specialist suppliers of party tents, heavy duty marquees and high quality pop-up gazebos for over twenty years, we here at Gala Tent are well placed to understand what kinds of anchorage work best in which situation, and for which tent. We have developed and refined our range over two decades, and have a complete set of effective gazebo weights and anchor systems available to buy with next working day delivery.

It doesn’t matter which gazebo you have, or how heavy it is, when you’re using it outdoors. All pop-up gazebos are susceptible to being scooped up by a gust of wind. It doesn’t matter whether you have the heaviest gazebo ever designed, it only takes a single hard gust to turn it into a dangerous kite, so it is recommended that you use something to keep it anchored to the ground.

Some people use what they have, for example motorsport professionals may use spare wheels and tyres to keep their awning fixed. Construction workers may strap the work tent to a pallet of bricks. It doesn’t matter what you use to anchor your gazebo down, the important thing is that you do it at all.

We have put together a simple guide, which offers advice on the kinds of options available, some available to buy from Gala Tent with free next day delivery, and others an industrial grade special order item that we can source for you upon request. We hope this guide will help you decide the best method of weighing your own gazebo down.

The most popular way to anchor your gazebo is the cast iron weight. Subtle and effective, these are a fantastic addition to any pop-up gazebo, to keep them grounded in windy conditions, and are equally suited to domestic use as they are commercial. The weights incorporate moulded interlocking studs, so that they can be stacked neatly on top of one another to increase the weight at each point safely. They are designed with a carry handle in each for ease of transporting, and have small holes so that you can supplement the anchor with a peg into soft ground. Finally, they have a groove cut into each iron disc, to allow them to fit neatly around the leg of any pop-up gazebo for sale at Gala Tent. Each weight adds 13kg of stability and they are sold in pairs. The absolute minimum we recommend of these items is one weight per leg, but two would be optimum.

The 50kg PVC gazebo weights were developed for our motorsport brand, Gala Performance, as motor racing teams need to travel light but also need extreme weights to anchor their professional awnings. This is a great option, lightweight, easy to transport, just fill with water and tie one to each leg, your gazebo is anchored, job done. At the end of the event, simply find somewhere safe to drain the water away and you can once again travel with something that weighs less than a kilo. They are sold singular, and we recommend at two per tent as a minimum. One weight per corner of the gazebo would be optimum, providing 200kg of weight to your tent.

220L PLASTIC BLUE UN APPROVED TIGHTHEAD DRUM

A large plastic blue drum is also another way of providing a heavy-duty method of anchoring your gazebo down. These are manufactured from high-density polyethylene (HDPE). These Drums are both food grade certified and UN approved meaning it has many different applications such as transporting and storing foodstuffs, pastes, chemicals, soaps, detergents, sanitisers and powders making it ideal for both domestic and commercial use. So handy for other storage uses as well, maybe double up on sanitiser, drinking water or even beer! - just add a tap. These are a special order item, so let us know if you’re looking at using a drum to anchor your gazebo and we’ll be happy to get you a price.