Beautiful Several Tips to Restring a Patio Umbrella

Patio umbrella string which operates the crank-style umbrellas can be worn and break from rough handling, overuse, and also exposure to the elements. It can be quite expensive and inconvenience if you want to have professional restring of patio umbrella or if you need to entirely replace your patio umbrella. Actually, by using few simple tools and also some patience, it would be a straightforward process if you want to restring patio umbrella at home. By checking out the following tips, you will know the easy ways to restring a patio umbrella. So, just read on if you want to know how to do it.

The first thing that you should do is to make preparation for the repair by opening the canopy of the umbrella. Then, you need to strengthen wire coat hanger. After that, the section of the wire near the neck of hanger needs to be cut away and discarded. Also, you should bend one end of hanger into small hook by using needle-nose pliers.

Secondly, one end of the new string needs to be inserted into the hook of the hanger. You can use the needle-nose pliers to firmly compress the string into the hook.

Thirdly, you need to run down the hanger inside of the pole. By using needle-nose pliers, you can easily pull the string of the hanger and also out of the access hole, which is halfway positioned in between the crank and the pulley. Then you have to remove the hanger.

Fourthly, the crank should be disassembled by using the open-end adjustable wrench in order to remove the bolt and the nut. After that, you need to attach the end of the string to the hook of the hanger again and compress it with the pliers. Then, the string end of the hanger should be inserted into the access hole. Now you can start to run down the hanger to the hole into which the crank is inserted.

Fifthly, you need to remove the string from the hanger by using needle-nose pliers. Then, you should pull the string through the hole in tube for crank axle. After that, you have to tie the end of the string into the tight double knot. The knot end of the string should be put into the pole through the crank axle hole. The crank axle should also be inserted into the hole in the pole. The crank case can be reassembled by tightening the nut and the bold.

Lastly, the exposed end of the string must be run over the pulley and also down the outside of the pole. Just tie the end of the string off into the secure double knot. Then, you should close manually the umbrella canopy by slowly pushing down on the yoke. Finally, you have to slowly and carefully turn the crank to wind the string for the first time and also to open the umbrella.