According Customer review the sleeve should not be bad. We wanted to have the sleeve mainly for the beach and sometimes for the garden. In the garden, the ground is very hard, you just need a lot of strength and a spade to first "pre-drilled" a hole. The screen should not be too large, otherwise the sleeve does not last. So overall for the price one certainly u erwartenes product. The locking screw plastic makes me a strong impression -bin curious how long the stops - the thread would be smaller to better burrow into the ground. Next time I'll take a metal and rather put some extra cash in!