About 3 or 4 years, depending on where you live, wind, sun, how much you use the unit, etc.
You can purchase replacement fabric, even via CW. Tain't cheap and shipping is a buggar expensive. Then you have to put the fabric on, it is doable, but you do need to be careful that they don't do a fast unwind and catch skin, your skin. The guy that helped Al knew the trick, sorry, I don't remember what it was, rather simply and effective.
Took a couple of men to do ours, but actually had a couple more to help guide it back in, has to slide, along the side, they stood on the bed of a truck, and passed to the 2 guys on ladders.
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