Folding-Arm Awnings
Shade over the braai and entertainment patio on demand — no posts, no permanent roof, gone into a cassette when you don’t need it.
Shade over the braai and entertainment patio on demand — no posts, no permanent roof, gone into a cassette when you don’t need it.
A folding-arm awning is a retractable fabric canopy on spring-tensioned arms, fixed to the wall above the patio and extended out over the entertaining area. There’s no post to work around and nothing permanent overhead — it disappears into its cassette when you want the winter sun through, and comes out in under a minute when the afternoon heat arrives.
For a Fourways entertainment patio — the space every new build treats as a second living room — it’s the single highest-impact product we fit. It turns a west-facing deck from unusable in January to the spot the whole family is in by four o’clock.
“No posts, no clutter around the braai — and it retracts to let the winter sun back in, which a fixed roof never can.”
An awning is a shade product, not a rain product — fine at a pitch in light drizzle, never intended for storm rain or standing water. Wind ratings are real engineering limits, not suggestions, which is exactly why a wind sensor matters on a motorised unit here. The fixing substrate also matters — brick, timber and steel all take the bracket differently, which is one of the things your consultant checks on site during the free measure.
The same retractable, wind-sensored shade for an entertainment patio, fitted in the neighbouring areas we know just as well.
