How to Build a Shelter for Water Vending Machines Outdoors

Building a shelter for an outdoor water vending machine can take a whole day. The shelter should cover the vending machine and also the person using it. You may need to adjust the size of the shelter for larger vending machines. This type of shelter can be useful on a job site to keep the water out of the sun or keep rain or snow from hitting the vending machine.

Plastic tarp
Scissors
Drill
Screws
Four eight-foot, one inch by one inch metal rectangular poles
Eight six-foot, one inch by one inch metal rectangular poles
Eight, one inch by one inch three-way metal connector joints
Curved bar, six feet in diameter
Duct tape

Instructions

- 1
  Lay four, six-foot beams in a square on the ground. Use three-way connectors to solidify the square. Drill a screw into each joint afterward to secure the connection. This is the base unit.
- 2
  Repeat Step 1. Once the square is complete, screw in a curved bar across the center of two of the sides. This bar does not need to be very high, about one foot is sufficient. The bar will raise the tarp on top up so that rainwater slides off it. Make sure the remaining joint on the three-way connector faces down and the curved bar faces up. This is the roof unit.
- 3
  Cut a plastic tarp so that it fits over the square made in Step 2. Duct tape the tarp around the square frame. The tarp should fit tightly on top of the square with raised roof.
- 4
  Insert four, eight-foot metal poles into the remaining hole on the connectors on the square made in Step 1. Drill screws into the four joints to secure the poles.
- 5
  Place the roof unit on top of the four poles in Step 4. Secure the roof unit with screws into the joints.

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