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Folding-Arm Awnings For The Entertaining Terrace

Retractable fabric awnings on spring-tensioned arms — no posts, no permanent roof, shade over the stoep or braai terrace on demand, disappearing into a cassette when you don't need it.

Folding-arm awning run out from its wall cassette over the brick-paved braai terrace of a stone-clad Cornwall Hill home, a timber bench in the shade and white paddock fencing beyond the lawn

A north- or west-facing stoep on a Cornwall Hill stand can go from unusable to the best seat on the property with a single retractable awning. No posts means no interrupted paddock view and no clutter around the braai — and unlike a fixed roof, the awning retracts to let welcome winter sun straight through.

Sizing and mounting

Projection runs to roughly three to four metres over a wide span, in solution-dyed acrylic fabrics that hold their colour under South African UV. A full cassette seals the fabric and arms away completely when closed — the right call for a weather-exposed terrace — while semi-cassette or open mounting suit a more sheltered position.

Motor plus wind sensor is the responsible spec

An awning caught open in a highveld thunderstorm gust can be destroyed in minutes. A motor with an auto-retract wind sensor protects the investment and means nobody has to remember to wind it in before a storm rolls over the ridge.

  • Full cassette, semi-cassette or open mounting
  • Crank handle or motorised, with wind-sensor auto-retract
  • Solution-dyed acrylic fabrics, colour-fast under SA UV
  • Optional LED lighting and drop-valance add-ons

Honest limitations

An awning is a shade product, not a rain product — fine at a pitch in light drizzle, never in storm rain. Wind ratings are real operating limits, not suggestions, and the fixing substrate (brick, timber or steel) needs a site assessment before anything is quoted.

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Full sun and heat protection and blackout in one motorised system.

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Where We Fit Them

The same wind-sensor spec shades stoeps and terraces right across the area — Irene's wraparound verandas, Southdowns Estate's golf-frontage patios, Centurion Golf Estate's entertaining decks and Midstream's family gardens.

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What a folding-arm awning costs on the estate

Awnings are quoted on the shade they throw, which is width multiplied by reach. With a crank handle, fitted, the band runs R3,500 through R5,500 a square metre; with a motor on it, R5,500 through R7,500. Cassette, sensor and the longer arms sit high in both, and on an exposed Highveld patio the sensor is not optional.

Narrow awnings attract a floor price, since the arm pair, the cassette and the wall fixing hardly shrink. What your patio costs is settled after the measure and the check of what it hangs off, and it comes to you in writing.

Ready to shade the terrace?

Book a free in-home measure — a consultant will assess the fixing substrate and quote in writing.

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