Best Choice Products 4-Piece 155lb Capacity Heavy-Duty Cantilever Offset Patio Umbrella Stand Square Base Plate Set w/Easy-Fill Spouts for Water or Sand - Black

I think the rest of the reviews have covered the quality and sturdiness of the item. As you can probably tell from the photos, the base is very big. It takes up a lot of space on my patio, but it definitely works. Size-wise, it fits perfectly with my Bluu Cantilever umbrella stand. On to the hack.... Someone was kind enough to post a review on how to fill the base with sand quickly called "Read this Assemby Cheat", to simplify what otherwise could be a very tedious process. Using their terrific idea as a baseline, I modified it somewhat and it worked very well for me. I took a 2-liter bottle as recommended and cut it in half to work as funnel into the base. With a little bit of effort, the spout of the 2-liter bottle fits perfectly into the filling base. However, instead of using the sand you find outdoors in your local big box retailer, which gets moist over time, get the sandbox sand they sell indoors (usually in the /concrete masonry section of the store). It is very fine sand (much finer than paver sand) and is completely dry. Four 50 lb bags should do it and it was less than $20 total for me. With the finer, dry sand, you can funnel it directly into each base without any water or clogging. This obviates the need for two funnels or using a hose to keep the sand flowing into the base. Just pour the sand directly into the funnel and it goes right into the base. When you've filled up each compartment with sand, you can then add water to finish it up. Since I did the filling by myself and the sand bags are unwieldy to start due to weight, when opening each new sand bag, I poured the first batch of sand into a bucket with a pouring spout. I then simply poured the sand from the bucket into the 2-liter bottle funnel. Once the sandbag was a little lighter, I could pour the sand directly from the bag into funnel. It worked great for me, so I hope it does for others as well.

Overall pleased with this product. We paired this base system with a 10' mastercanopy cantilever umbrella purchased on Amazon. The base is attractive and matches some of our other patio furniture with a thatch design. Once assembled the base is about 40" square, so keep that in mind when picking a location. With the completed set loaded with your weighting materials it's not going to be easy to move. I chose to fill each of the "plates" with play sand. I bought four 50 lb bags of sand from my local big box hardware store for around $30. I chose sand over water because it weighs more and the recomendations I found online for what a good weight would be for this style of umbrella ranged from 175 to 200 lbs. I had about 10 lbs of sand left after filling, so each plate has about 47 lbs of sand in it. For filling I had some old funnels and I propped these up diagonally with the spout directly vertical. It took me about an hour to fill all four plates and I agitated the plate towards the end of filling to make sure they were filled to the top. Even filled with sand the material of construction is solid and does not deform when loaded, which I saw as a positive. I had looked at other designs, but they were much larger than this system for the same weight. The lower profile of these allows easy operation of the rotation function on my umbrella. Once assembled, this system provides a very sturdy and solid base, even when the wind is blowing at a good clip. Overall, solid construction, plenty of weight when filled with sand and provides a solid base in a stiff wind. Should you choose sand, you'll need to factor in this cost in your overall purchase price.

We bought this with our 13ft umbrella and it works amazing. Never even looked like it was gonna blow over. My kids even pulled and moved the rods around and it’s still very sturdy.

I bought this base to go with their cantilevered umbrella and was nervous about the purchase due to the wide range of reviews on them and I'd like to add in my experience in case it helps anyone decide. First off, I filled each of the 4 base sections with gritty sand (think the type that you'd put in between pavers on a patio) until they were approximately 90-95% full, and then I filled the remaining space with water, pausing every few seconds to "shake" the water down into the sand and get it all wet and mixed up. I feel like this gives you the heaviest option possible. IF YOU ARE ONLY FILLING THESE WITH WATER YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A BAD TIME. There's just no way that it will be heavy enough with water only in my opinion. Unlike some of the reviews I've seen, the only issue I had with water "leaking" from the base is because I put one of the caps back on at an angle, and that was a quick and easy fix. That being said - filling these bases was incredibly difficult and tedious. The hole in each one of these is in a place that requires you to stand it up on the rounded edge, the hole is not very large and getting sand into them took me multiple hours by myself. Unfortunately, short of making the hole slightly bigger, from a design perspective this is just how it has to be. Thankfully you should only be filling these up once and then forget about them. Now to the part that seems to be the most controversial: the metal clips that hook onto the bases. I think there is some confusion about the purpose that these serve and why they are the way they are. First off: Yes, they are very difficult and annoying to get on correctly, but that is the point! the bases by themselves just sitting on the edge of the metal base that comes with the umbrella is basically worthless as they can wiggle away. The point of having these metal brackets to attach them to one another is to force all 4 bases to be pushing up against the metal umbrella base with constant pressure to keep it grounded at all times. I found the easiest way to get them connected was to essentially pick up the corners of the two base pieces you are trying to connect and angle them in at each other, while pushing the bases toward each other as best you can (this is much easier done with two people). It takes some trial and error, but you will eventually get them into the holes. The people that are saying they aren't long enough are wrong - they are JUST long enough, but if they were easy to put in, they wouldn't have the resistance needed to keep the bases in place. For sure some of the negative reviews of this item come from people that couldn't just easily put the clips in and immediately gave up. Do not be one of those people, you've come too far to give up now! I have only had the base assembled with the umbrella for about a week, and we have only had winds of ~10mph so far, but with this fully assembled and nearly 150 pounds of sand and water in the bases, I feel as if it would take an awful lot for this to fail (ex: irresponsibly having the umbrella opened in strong wind gusts that it has no business being open in to begin with). I am not giving this a full 5-stars due to the difficulty of filling the bases up, but I will say that I am happy I chose to take a chance on the base.

Theses where a perfect fit for my umbrella that hangs over my pool easy to set up with water easy to take down and put away for winter

Return on my request. Unfortunately did not fit our umbrella

To keep off the summer sun.

Filled up the 4 base containers for my 11ft offset umbrella with sand. After filling each container and getting them into place, my umbrella is solid and isn't going anywhere. I had some issues getting the clips in place but was able get them in place after some work. Also the clips feel like they might come out if anyone touches it so hopefully they don't pop out. Tried to follow another person's suggestion to use a 12L pop bottle top but I only had a water bottle, which still worked fine. I used a skinny branch i found to keep the sand moving down into the base plates. But it took several hours to get sand packed in

C'est merveilleux merci

Met all my expectations