Outdoor shading
Shade the patio, keep the view of the back nine
A retractable fabric awning on spring-tensioned folding arms — no posts, no permanent roof, no interrupted sightline to the fairway. Shade on demand, gone when you don't need it.
Turns a baking patio back into a room
A north or west-facing patio on the golf side of the house can be unusable through a highveld summer afternoon — and a fixed roof solves the heat but blocks the view year-round. A folding-arm awning does neither trade-off: extend it for shade during sundowners on the back nine, retract it in winter to let the low sun back in. No posts means no interrupted views and no clutter around the braai.
How it's built
Fabric sits on spring-tensioned folding arms that project out from a wall-mounted cassette — typically to the 3–4m class over a wide span. Solution-dyed acrylic fabrics hold their colour under South African UV rather than fading out in a season or two.
Mounting options
- Full cassette — fabric and arms sealed away when retracted, the right call for a fairway-facing position that takes the full weather.
- Semi-cassette — partial cover, a lower-cost middle ground for more sheltered positions.
- Open mount — the simplest fixing, best suited to a covered or less exposed patio.
Motor and wind sensor — the responsible spec
Crank-handle operation exists, but on a golf-frontage plot with nothing to slow the wind, motorised with an automatic wind sensor is the spec we'd actually recommend. An awning caught open in a highveld thunderstorm gust can be destroyed in minutes; the sensor retracts it before that gust ever gets there. LED lighting and a vertical drop-valance are available as premium add-ons once the core spec is right.
What an awning won't do
It's a shade product, not a rain product — fine for light drizzle at a pitch, but never a match for storm rain or standing water. Wind ratings are real limits, not suggestions. And the fixing substrate matters — brick, timber and steel all need a different approach, which is exactly what the site assessment at your free measure is for.
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