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Originally Posted by chris vickery
Garage in a box or as I like to refer to them POS in a box... Grrr 
I learned very quickly at my home that there is no use for these here.
Where I live we always have some sort of wind as our lot sits atop one of the higher elevations in the area.
My first attemp at one of these was when I first moved up here about 8 years ago.
I followed all of the instructions carefully and even lag bolted the legs into
2x8s which also had bags of concrete mix placed on them.
My garage in a box lasted all of 24 hours. Believe it or not, when I came home, all my lawn and garden stuff was sitting in a nice pile which used to be inside my tent. I thought someone had stolen it.
I searched and found my garage all right; it was ripped and torn to shreds and all the frame work mangled about 300 yards in the back 40 from where it once stood.
Guess I should have learned when the boys trampoline suffered the same fate earlier.
My garage sale canopies also met the same demise. Set up on Friday night and Saturday morning- gone. Never did find where it ended up.
So, in the end I learned that here, unless it is made of concrete, wood and steel it does not get erected.  |
Several municipalities i've lived in over the years actually specifically forbid these "Montreal Garages" in the bylaws for that exact reason. The way it was explained to me was that the shelters often get blown onto roads, into neighbours cars, etc.
I've got a nice photo somewhere of a Command Post complete with tables and chairs, 100 cupper coffee maker, computers and printer, map boards, the whole nine yards sitting in the middle of a field with the four sections of modular tentage off in the treeline. Apparently the sandbags alone weren't "good enough"
