Costco Penguin 12X12 Solarium Assembly

[itwyful]

I found your video very helpful. We put ours together last weekend.  It's 12 x 18, and took two days, 10 hours each day. Our main problem was that most of the 'E' joining slats did not slide well, we used lots of WD40, grease and elbow grease. The instructions were very poor. It would have helped to have an idea of what parts were inside. In the end, it was a real 'puzzle', but it's very nice! Let's see how it stands up to Manitoba snow, wind and ice! Thx for the video, our weather strip

[DraftedByTheMan]

@itwyful Curious about your weather stripping. I found the E slats would slide well you wiggle the panels while trying to slide it. At first I was doing the same thing - forcing the slats.

I never had the doors with the proper weather stripping replaced. I think Costco and the manufacturer just let this issue go away.

[heebs420]

ok thank you. it does look good cant wait to see what mine will look like with my hot tub in it

[heebs420]

I've been looking at the pics of these and it looks like the doors are on the outside whats right hmm.guess im going to find out when i get mine

[DraftedByTheMan]

@heebs420 The doors have to be hung from the inside...the directions are very specific about that and you can also see it in the diagram.

[tonyviscione]

@DraftedByTheMan HI DO YOU THINK THIS SOLARIUM WILL WORK IN MASSACHUSETTS WITH THE SNOW AND RAIN/

[DraftedByTheMan]

@tonyviscione Yes - I'm in Canada so we also get rain and snow here. It's very sturdy. There are anchors too but I didn't bother since my solarium is sheltered from the wind. We've had some of the hardest rainfall I can remember this year and it's dry as a bone inside.

[DraftedByTheMan]

I have an update from Penguin/Costo regarding the weatherstripping problem. They have told me I only need the weatherstripping on the one side so the "backwards" weatherstripping is not an issue in their eyes. However, the supervisor told me that in the future, they will have weatherstripping on both sides of the door so it will always be visible from the inside.

Now....that basically means that they intend to have weatherstripping on weatherstripping but they won't fix my problem.

[DraftedByTheMan]

@DraftedByTheMan Their solution is for me to install the doors backwards but then the panel on the bottom will not match the rest of the panels. Not good!

[heebs420]

is the 12by12 inside dimension?Ipurchased the 12by18 looking forward to puttig it up.can the doors be turnes around?just wondering.

[DraftedByTheMan]

The inside dimension is 11 ft 7 in. The walls are 2 1/2 inches thick each. That totals up to the 12 ft.

It's kinda fun putting it up if you know that to expect. The instructions say you should have more than one person but you definitely need at least 2 people.

The doors should not be turned around since there is a design on the bottom that needs to match the other outside panels and I think it would look bad if the panels were inside out.

[bcboy11]

Nice video, but I was expecting penguins, where`s all the penguins.

[DraftedByTheMan]

Penguins sold separately