Steel, Aluminium or Plastic Frame?

Should you choose steel, aluminium or plastic frame? Let's start with the easy one first:

PLASTIC

This is going to be a short paragraph. Buy plastic if you have very little money and you don't wish to use your pop up gazebo more than once. Even if you have very little money, you will still find steel gazebos are not all that much more expensive than the plastic ones, it just takes a bit of advice and research to find the right one for you.

ALUMINIUM

Aluminium frames are surprisingly stronger than steel ones and are more expensive. You do get aluminium gazebo frames but you may well have to go to a specialised site rather than the big commercial sites, but beware they will cost you quite a lot more. A lot of the marquees that one hires are made out of aluminium frames but it is probably not as price effective to make our smaller pop up gazebos out of the same.

STEEL

As I've just mentioned, aluminium is slightly stronger than the steel frame but there are some excellent steel gazebos out there. Look out for pop up gazebos that have 'powder-coated' steel frames as these will be stronger still.

Pop up gazebos have come a long way but I still think there is further to go. In order to make the gazebos 'pop up' they must be light and manageable, but in making them light can also make them weak, so choose your gazebo really carefully. I always go by user ratings and also by word of mouth from friends or family.