The construction of the raising mechanism is awful. The umbrella itself is just what I wanted. Too bad it keeps breaking. On the first one I received the string for raising broke at the top of the umbrella after a month's use. Wayfair replaced it but that took more than 6 months to arrive. On the replacement the crank system has broken within two months of use and no longer does anything to the string. In both cases I can manually push the umbrella up and secure it with the provided pin, but I have to take it apart to do this.