Shade on demand, view kept the rest of the time
A folding-arm awning shades a deck or stoep without a single post in the way — no interrupted sea view, no permanent roof line changing the look of the house. It retracts fully into a cassette when you want the winter sun back, which a fixed structure can never do. On a stand this small, that flexibility usually matters more than the shade itself.
The wind decides the spec, not the aesthetics
Clifton sits on the more sheltered flank of the peninsula relative to the south-easter, but an awning caught open on an exposed deck when a gust does arrive can still be destroyed. Motor plus wind sensor is the spec we default to here — the awning retracts before the gust hits rather than after, and nobody has to be home to make that call. It is the same default over an exposed Camps Bay terrace, where the Twelve Apostles take some of the south-easter out of the air but never all of it. We fit crank-handle operation only where the position genuinely doesn't need it.
Sized for the stand you actually have
Most Clifton decks are compact, wedged onto a slope with a boulder or a neighbour's wall close by — folding arms suit that far better than a post-mounted structure would. Projection runs to roughly the 3–4m class on the wider installs. Given the salt spray this close to the water, we generally recommend a full cassette that seals the fabric and arms away when retracted, rather than an open mount that leaves the mechanism exposed between uses. Where the stand is bigger — Llandudno's large, landscaped plots, say — how far the arms run out stops being a question of what will fit between a boulder and a neighbour's wall, and becomes a question of how much of the deck you actually want shaded.
- Full cassette recommended for salt exposure
- Motor + wind sensor as the standard spec here
- Projection to roughly the 3–4m class
- Solution-dyed acrylic fabrics hold colour under UV
- Shade product, not rain product — a pitch handles drizzle, never a storm
Priced by the shade it throws
The sum is the width across multiplied by the projection out, and the guide, installed, is R3,500 to R5,500 per square metre for a crank-handle awning and R5,500 to R7,500 per square metre once it is motorised with a wind sensor. A full cassette that seals the fabric away, which is what we would specify anywhere near the water, sits at the upper end.
A short awning over one door carries a minimum charge, since the arms, the cassette and the wall fixing are the same job at any width. How exposed the deck is decides more than the size does, and that is settled at the free measure before any written price is put together.
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