How To Attach Sail Shade To Roof

Our shade sails add an artistic flare to your boring screen enclosure adding color and breaking up structural lines with different shapes.

How to attach sail shade to roof. Raise the shade sail up to the fascia and slip its head rod into the clamps. Tighten the wing nuts on. If fixing onto the roof a standard shade sail roof bracket is the best choice. The triangular sails do not cover every square inch of the roof in our conservatory.

Add a system where you can easily drop furl the sail shade. The corners of the shade should have grommets or steel rings in place. Some of the cheaper brands of sail shades don t have these and simply attach directly to the hook. These are the sails i used.

Planning a diy shade sail in most cases a shade sail is secured to a combination of steel posts cemented into the ground and brackets and. Our screen enclosure shade sails come in 19 different colors and can be made in squares rectangles or triangles. Screw and bolt to the trusses then. Kookaburra waterproof sun sail shade sand 11ft 10 triangular.

Just attach the hook to the turnbuckle and then slide it into place over the corner of the shade. Install three steel posts attaching them to the deck framing to support the shade sail. You simply need to place the screwdriver in the middle of the turnbuckle so that the entire piece rotates. The reputable manufacturers will include turnbuckles that can simply be tightened with a screwdriver.

Screw head rod clamps to the house fascia spaced 3 feet apart. We like them so much we plan on creating matching shade on our patio area just outside the conservatory to make a unified chic home design. Fasten each post with lag. For one corner it s sometimes better to use a tension strap.

When it s not in use you can take it down easily. This can be as simple as on any corner you cannot reach easily add a block instead of a hard point and send the corner line thru that block and into a cleat. Shade sails are a great way to add comfort and style to your outdoor entertainment spaces.