Shade on demand over the braai and entertainment patio — no posts, no permanent roof, gone the moment you don't need it.
A north- or west-facing entertainment patio on the fairway side of an Eagle Canyon home can be unusable by three in the afternoon in summer. A folding-arm awning turns it back into shade on demand, then retracts in winter to let the low sun through — a seasonal trick a fixed roof or pergola simply can't manage. No posts also means no interrupted view down the fairway, and no clutter around the braai.
A full cassette housing seals the fabric and arms away completely when retracted — the safer choice for anything weather-exposed — or a semi-cassette or open mount for a simpler budget. Crank handle or motorised, and motorised with a wind sensor is genuinely the responsible spec here: an awning caught open in a highveld thunderstorm gust can be destroyed in seconds, where a sensor retracts it automatically before that happens.
Braai patios and entertainment decks in Ruimsig, Featherbrooke Estate, Northcliff and Constantia Kloof all get the same wind-sensor spec as Eagle Canyon — shade on demand, retracted automatically before the storm arrives.
What you pay for is shaded ground: square metres under the fabric with the awning fully out, fitting included. With a crank handle that is in the R3,500 to R5,500 per square metre range, an open or semi-cassette on a sheltered patio cheapest, with a full cassette out on an unsheltered one at the upper. Specify the motor and the sensor and you are into R5,500 to R7,500 for each square metre.
Where a patio faces open fairway with nothing upwind, the motor and the sensor matter more than another half-metre of fabric, because an awning that folds itself away before a storm is the one still there next season. A short awning over a door sits at the minimum, and whatever the brackets are anchored in moves changes the figure too. Both are worked out during the free site assessment, and the written quote that follows carries the actual figure for your terrace.
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