Gazebos with Sides

3m x 3m Gazebos with Sides

Three metres square covers a standard market pitch with room for a six-foot trestle and space to work behind it. The frame folds to 170cm and fits in the back of an estate car, and five height settings move the eaves from 1.4m to 2m, so you can drop it low against the wind or run it high enough to serve over a counter.

The wall set is the same across all three grades: two plain panels, one with a clear window and a privacy blind, and one with a full-height zipped door. What changes is the frame underneath it. Each is shown here in a different canopy colour, and every grade comes in all twelve.

• Pro 40. A 40mm hex leg, light enough for one person to shift and short enough to live in a shed.
• Pro 50. A 50mm hex leg on profile aluminium joints rather than cast, which is the part that survives being dropped off the back of a van every weekend.
• Pro 60. A 60mm hex leg with double-reinforced truss joints and an external peak pole spring, for pitches that stay up all weekend in whatever the weather does.

Larger Gazebos with Sides

Past the 3m x 3m the range runs 3m x 4.5m, 3m x 6m, 4m x 6m, 4m x 8m and 4m x 10m, and a wall set is made for every one of them. The longer runs change how you use the walls: rather than enclosing all four sides, most traders wall the back and both ends and leave the length open to the aisle, which gives you a serving frontage with the weather off your back.

The three below are all Pro 50, so the only thing changing is the footprint. Every size is also available in Pro 40 and most in Pro 60, and all twelve canopy colours have matching walls.

Our gazebo size guide works through guest numbers and pitch sizes for every size we make.

What You Get in a Gazebo with Sides

Each bundle on this page is a complete shelter, not a frame you add to later:

• The gazebo frame in your chosen build grade, pre-assembled and concertina-folding.
• The roof canopy, fully waterproof and UV-treated.
• A full set of sidewalls covering every side of the gazebo, including a windowed panel with a privacy blind and a zipped door panel.
• A storage bag for the sidewall set.

A frame carry bag is included with the Pro 60 range and with the 3m x 3m Compact, which ships with a heavy-duty wheeled case. On the Pro 40 and Pro 50 the frame bag is an optional extra rather than standard, so add one if you need it.

Buying the bundle costs less than buying the frame, canopy and wall set as separate lines, and it removes the risk of ordering panels that do not fit the frame you own.

Are Gazebos with Sides Waterproof?

Yes. On the standard sets both the roof and the wall panels are 600d PVC-coated polyester, so a waterproof gazebo with sides keeps rain out at the roof and at the walls. The transparent option below is a different material, 22 micron PVC, and is equally waterproof. The detail that catches people out is the join: water runs off the roof onto the wall, so the panels attach under the roof edge with heavy-duty Velcro rather than butting against it, and each panel carries a PVC side skirt at the bottom to drain run-off away from the base.

Two things worth knowing before your first wet event. Pooling is the enemy, not rainfall, so keep the roof under tension and never let water collect in a dip. And a fully enclosed gazebo in cold weather will show condensation on the inside of the panels, which is moisture from people and heaters rather than a leak; unzipping one panel a few inches clears it.

For the full detail on canopy specification, hydrostatic head and how our fabrics are tested, see our waterproof gazebos page.

Types of Sidewall Panel

A standard 3m x 3m wall set gives you two plain 3m panels, one windowed panel with a privacy blind, and one zipped door panel. Most setups end up mixing panel types, and because every panel attaches the same way you can swap them around freely on the same frame.

• Solid panels. Plain walls with no opening. The most private and the best at blocking wind. Used on the back and sides of a trading setup.
• Windowed panels. A clear window set into the wall with a blind you can drop. Lets light in and lets customers see a display without opening up.
• Zipped door panels. A full-height zipped doorway with tie-back clips, so you can get in and out with the gazebo closed.
• Half walls. Waist-height panels that mark out your pitch and stop wind at ground level while keeping the counter open.
• Transparent panels. Fully clear walls rather than a window set into a solid panel, covered below.

Every panel is detachable, and full or half walls can be ordered individually for next working day delivery. Nothing is fixed, so a gazebo with removable sides can run fully open in the morning and fully closed by the afternoon.

A solid panel is also three square metres of flat, vertical surface at eye level, which makes it the best print area on the whole gazebo. Walls, roof and pelmet can all be printed, so see printed gazebos if you want your name on it rather than a plain colour.

Gazebos with Transparent Sides

A standard wall set encloses the space and darkens it at the same time. The transparent option does the first without the second. Both the canopy and the wall panels are clear, apart from a white valance around the roof edge and a lower stripe on the walls where the ground bar sleeve sits.

That matters wherever being enclosed and being seen are both requirements. On a market pitch, customers can still see the stock with the walls down. At an outdoor dining setup, guests keep the daylight and the view. Where staff need to watch what is happening around them, walls stop being a blind spot.

It is 22 micron, 290gsm PVC, cold resistant to minus 30 degrees Celsius, and it uses the same wall geometry as the standard sets, so it fits the frames you already own. One thing to check first: the transparent PVC is not fire retardant, and many markets, festivals, schools and exhibition venues require fire-retardant covers as a condition of entry. Where that applies, a standard wall set is the one to take.

Buying Gazebo Sides on Their Own

If you already own a gazebo and just need the walls, you do not have to buy a whole new shelter. Gala Shade sidewalls are sold as separate sets in every size we make, in all twelve canopy colours plus a transparent option, and they fit any Gala Tent frame of the matching size regardless of build grade or how old it is. A 3m x 3m set is £143.99.

Two things to check before ordering. Measure the footprint rather than trusting what you were told when you bought it, because a 3m x 3m and a 2.5m x 2.5m look identical until the panel is short. And note that our walls are cut for our frames, so they will not fit another manufacturer's gazebo.

Browse the full range in gazebo spare parts, or call the team on 01709 242454 if you are unsure which set matches your frame.

Cheap Gazebos with Sides, and What They Cost You

You can buy a gazebo with sides for under a hundred pounds. It is worth being clear about what the difference is, because it is not branding.

Budget shelters use thin steel or single-wall aluminium poles with plastic joints, and the joint is what fails. Once one cracks the frame is scrap, because nobody stocks the part. The walls are usually a lighter fabric with untaped seams, which sheds a shower but wets through in sustained rain, and they tie on with toggles that work loose in wind rather than fixing to the canopy.

The practical difference is how many events you get. A budget gazebo with sides typically survives a season of fair weather. Our entry point is the Pro 40 at £356.99, built to be repaired, with every part available next working day. If you use a gazebo twice a year in good weather, the cheap one may genuinely be the right call. If you trade on it, or if it has to stand up in November, the sums work the other way inside a year.

Where Gazebos with Sides Are Used

Markets and trade stalls. A market stall gazebo with sides gives you a back wall to hang stock from, weather cover on the exposed side, and something you can close and leave overnight at a multi-day event. See our market stall gazebos.

Schools and sports clubs. Walls turn a shade canopy into a first aid point, a registration desk or a kit store. Half walls are the usual choice so supervision lines stay open. See sports club shelters.

Catering and bars. Solid panels on the weather side, a windowed panel facing the queue, and a serving side left open. See street food gazebos.

Garden parties and weddings. Sides make an outdoor space usable when the weather turns, and windowed panels keep it from feeling like a tent. See party gazebos.

Branding. Sidewalls are the largest flat surface on a gazebo and the easiest to print. See printed gazebos.

Anchoring a Gazebo with Sides

This matters more with walls than without. An open canopy lets wind pass through. Put four walls on it and you have built a sail, and the load on each leg goes up sharply. Every gazebo with sides needs anchoring, every time, including on a still day.

• On grass, use a peg through each foot plus guy ropes to ground pegs set out from the frame.
• On concrete or tarmac, use weights. Leg weights that wrap the upright are more effective than plates sat on the feet.
• Ground bars are the upgrade worth making. The wall panels have a sleeve along the bottom edge that the bar slides through, which stops the walls lifting and ties the whole base together.
• One anchor per leg is the minimum. Use two if there is any breeze at all.
• If the wind gets up, take one wall off before you take the gazebo down. Removing a panel drops the load immediately and buys you time.

See our gazebo weights and anchoring kits, or read how to secure a gazebo in high winds.