Sophia & William 15 ft Extra Large Patio Umbrella with Base Included, Rectangular Outdoor Umbrella Heavy Duty, Market Umbrella Double-sided Fade Resistant for Pool Garden Backyard, Haze Blue

easy to use
This umbrella is excellent, easy to assemble, and perfect for my backyard. Now I can barbecue even on rainy days, and it’s very sturdy. the umbrella is very big and a great deal for the price. One thing I really love is that it can extend very high, which makes it feel even more open and cool underneath.

Thin fabric, but does the job.
I was excited to find this umbrella on sale, as we’d been looking for something to give shade to the cooking area of our new patio, that would match the rest of our decor – and our other umbrellas in the same space. This Sophia & William 15ft Umbrella with Base is the perfect solution until we build an awning in the future.I purchased in “Ivory White” color and it coordinates perfectly with our other umbrellas by other Amazon brands. It came in a very large box with all the necessary parts and instructional pictorial – not my favorite instructional, but luckily assembly is simple and straightforward, and the Mr had it together in a matter of minutes (while I was yelling at him to look at the instruction *picture book* haha).I like that it features a pin to keep this massive 3-fold umbrella up in case the mechanism fails. This is an important safety feature and I was pleased to see it included here. The base is interesting and comes with two rectangular nylon bags/pouches(?) to hold sand. As you can see in my video, we opted to just drop 3 70-lb bags into the base and put the cover over it all, filling up those included bags seemed messy and unnecessary with the addition of the large base cover (no on can see what’s under it). So far she’s already weathered a massive two-day southern rainstorm – we put the canopy down and tied it securely. The base didn’t budge and the umbrella was perfect when the sun eventually came out.Now, here’s the CON: the fabric quality is really lacking. It’s very thin, thinner than my other “economy” umbrella purchased from Amazon. It shows every bird poop or whatever else drops/falls on top of the canopy very clearly. I understand all light umbrellas kind of do that, but this is really transparent. Oddly, it does still produce decent shade, however, I can assume the UPV protection to be less under this thin fabric (especially in this light of a color), so remember to wear your sunscreen when you are under this thing because UV rays are probably zipping right through this thing. As someone who has been through basal cell skin cancer, I consider this an important issue.Further, it doesn’t clean well. I tried to wipe off some bird poop in the same manner as my other (also “cream”) umbrellas, and it just made a dingy mess on this one. I used some Oxyclean on those spots and now I can see where I used it, too, though the spots do look better than the darker bird poop stains. I deducted a star for the fabric quality because it truly is lacking.Ultimately, I gave this 4 stars for price (that I paid *on sale*), basic functionality, color, and durability of the BUILD of the umbrella. I deducted a star for the fabric quality because it’s pretty disappointing that it’s not even as good as my other “cheap” amazon umbrellas.

Really love it!!
I’m really impressed with this 15 feet umbrella. It looks very nice in the yard, and the quality feels solid and durable. The height is easy to adjust, which makes it more practical for different times of the day. The size is perfect for my yard and gives plenty of shade, covering a table and chairs easily. It feels well made and stable, even on breezy days. Overall, it’s a great purchase and I’m happy with how it looks and works.

Customer Service Bad, Fault Umbrella. Company wont make it good just ignores my emails.
Bought this umbrellas, loved it at first, then when we went to crank it down it would not lower and torn little at the top., no matter what didn’t want to break it, called customer service for a refund or replacement no luck, they requested I send it back, I would if they would send me a box that would fit the size of the umbrellas which was 15 ft by 9ft that was fully up, So left it up big wind and off it went in the yard still up and torn. I have bought several umbrella from tis company and not had a problem. This was just a faulty one. They did not make it good, completely ignored me and, I don’t think i need yo purchase another one and be out what I spent for this faulty one. Its is 110 degrees in Texas and I need my umbrella I paid for or one the same size as a replacement. I buy lot from Amazon and have never had this problem. Please make it right. also when the wind caught the raise umbrella is damaged my table. just saying Im know sure who else i need to report this to. neither company will do anythins.