Winter just made my 2nd Pavilion KAPUT!

This is not your pork! · Dec 11, 2012

Of course it just had to happen, how did I even think my 2nd pavilion could withstand the enormous weight of such heavy snowfall...

So the weight of the snow on the canvas made the middle buckle down, I first had to remove the snow, then remove the canvas, and two of the rods leading to the center are broken now. It's still operational but with very much reduced robustness. It can be fixed temporary by wiring the two rods to the middle pole, a more permanent repair would be to weld them (if I had the necessary equipment and knowledge; I have never welded before).

It will be snowing the whole week, so I have no idea if/how there will be some 'Q'ing going on the next weekend. :mmph:

This is my second pavilion this year, the first one got trashed by heavy rain. If only those heavy duty pavilions wouldn't be that expensive over here... :sad:

Clayfish · Dec 11, 2012

That's sad news, you might have to build something more substantial for your smoking area.

Phubar · Dec 11, 2012

What ClayPhish says.

This is not your pork! · Dec 11, 2012

Yes, that was the plan, but still no idea for a permanent solution. The pavilion dit great till now, so it will have to do till a better idea comes up. We'll see about the weather for next weekend, unfortunately the forecast changes daily.

GreenDrake · Dec 11, 2012

That's why I built the Meat Manger. I lost two canopies in overnight snowfall, during cooks. Was just going to build a lean-to but ended up putting a deck on it too. I have a winter wrap on it to keep the snow out, but in the spring I plan to tongue and groove it and put in some country style windows with flower boxes on the outside, you know...to keep the wife happy about it.

This is not your pork! · Dec 11, 2012

GreenDrake, that's a very nice and still simple solution, something like that would be awesome, but I kind of doubt I'll be able to create such.

Big George's BBQ · Dec 11, 2012

Sorry to hear this How much snow

thirtydaZe · Dec 11, 2012

I like the "Meat Manger".

This is not your pork! · Dec 11, 2012

Had to look up the word "manger", now I know its meaning :smile:

That pavilion was pretty tough, it survived all storms and rain since the summer, but the last few days it's snowing all the time, and even with less than 10" it was just too much weight for those thin rods.

GreenDrakel, your wood construct looks very appealing. What's on top of the wood as roof? Is it movable, or stationary? And how is the floor made?

basuraman · Dec 11, 2012

I need to build that for the summers here in California. Not sure how it would fly with the wife.

GreenDrake · Dec 11, 2012

I am no construction guru, that is for sure. I was simply going to just do a roof with pressure treated four by fours in the ground on piers. The shear needed to be addressed, hence the large joists on the back and corners. Solid as a rock now. For the roof I just went to the local hardware store that has a lumber yard and bought brown corrugated steel roofing to lay over the fiber board on the top. It worked out great, total cost was around $300 to build it.

trufunk · Dec 11, 2012

That is great!

Happy Hapgood · Dec 11, 2012

KAPUTTED! Sorry to see that! Power though it Brother!

mbshop · Dec 12, 2012

sorry that happened.
lots of build ideas here.
http://www.grillsportverein.de/forum/grillhuetten-und-blockhuettenbau/

This is not your pork! · Dec 12, 2012

Really nice, I need to think about such a simple but ultra robust wood-framed shed. Will have to ask the wife though, because the placement of my actual 'Q'ing area between a young apple tree and the pool-deck is not ideal at all, and never was meant to be a permanent solution, so a shed on the very same place may not be approved.

buccaneer · Dec 12, 2012

Look, Australia beckons, but I fear your application will be way too efficient.
We like lackadaisical efforts but you are way too pedantic!
:hail:

This is not your pork! · Dec 12, 2012

You mean Sunset City, where the sun always shines and it never snows? Australia here we come... :mrgreen: ...not.

Last winter we didn't have to use snow chains once, but this week is horror pure, first the pavilion, then I had to dig out the pool canopy, then the driveway every time we come and go, and of course the snow chains we need to get up and down the hill we are on. You have no idea how much I hate winter right now! :mmph:

buccaneer · Dec 12, 2012

This is not your pork! said:
You mean Sunset City, where the sun always shines and it never snows? Australia here we come... :mrgreen: ...not.

Last winter we didn't have to use snow chains once, but this week is horror pure, first the pavilion, then I had to dig out the pool canopy, then the driveway every time we come and go, and of course the snow chains we need to get up and down the hill we are on. You have no idea how much I hate winter right now! :mmph:

Humorous offer retracted!
Weather versus climate , tricky for some!:twitch:

:laugh:

This is not your pork! · Dec 12, 2012

Yeah, too far away, it's bad, but not that bad to flee the country :wink:

buccaneer · Dec 12, 2012

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