I am still to erect as I have issues with cross arm base as later noted. The umbrella is very solid and protective coating appears to be good. Umbrella frame appears to be appropriately finished for being placed close to edge of salt water pool in Brisbane. I have issues with the cross-arm base which is just pressed cold steel and powder coat finish. There is a coating defect about 13mm long on 1 edge with bright steel finely showing and this will rust from the pool water being splashed by grand kids. I will likely need to epoxy enamel coat the entire cross base arms to get an appropriate life and avoid rust stains. The cross-arms do not have any provided feet. The instruction manual refers to "Fit the feet or casters ..."but feet not provided. Without feet the steel base will be in direct contact with our silver travertine stone paving and highly likely to scratch from minor movement under wind loads. Therefore I now need to source some feet and fix with grade 316 stainless screws/bolts. Also no edge bumpers provided for the 25 kg ballast blocks which can scratch the powder coat finish. My opinion of the provided cross-arms is the durability of the applied coating is way behind that applied to the umbrella. Our last umbrella 3m square with 100 kg of concrete ballast tipped over under a sudden wind gust while we were out. I now use 2 layers of concrete ballast i.e. 200 kg

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