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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand)
experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. |
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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:47:38 +0000, Stormin' Norman
wrote: Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand) experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. Sorry - no personal experience - but the " Instr " link on this page, has a pretty good 4-page pdf for installation instructions. http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/pag...44&cat=1,71685 If comparing price & quality of different brands - don't forget to look at the hardware included - good stainless steel - rather than cheapo ... John T. |
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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
On 6/22/2017 7:47 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand) experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. It's all about you, is it? You selfish prick! |
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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
On 6/22/2017 9:47 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand) experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. We use 2 shade sails in our back yard. We overlapped them at different angles and used wire and ropes to tie them off. Part of them are tied to a 4 x 4 fence post, and another is tied to a hook on our house. Haven't had any problems with them, but, will probably need to replace them in another year or two due to the fabric breaking down from sun and weather exposure. They've been up for about 4 or 5 years at this point. -- Maggie |
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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:06:01 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote: On Thu 22 Jun 2017 08:28:27a, told us... On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:47:38 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote: Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand) experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. Sorry - no personal experience - but the " Instr " link on this page, has a pretty good 4-page pdf for installation instructions. http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/pag...44&cat=1,71685 If comparing price & quality of different brands - don't forget to look at the hardware included - good stainless steel - rather than cheapo ... John T. Ours is personal experience, but our sail was custom made due to the unusual shape we needed. On three sides there were heavy steel rods mounted to two existing walls and one beam. The sale was grommeted at one foot intervals and lced to the steel rods. On the fourth side a have steel cable was contained within the sale and eached was anchored into heavy eye bolts into two of the walls. The cable tensions was adjustable at both ends. We've had this sail for five years and it's as good as new. The company who made it does employ steel posts if required; e.g., where no other mounting location would work. That sounds very interesting. Any possibility of you posting a few pictures of it? I am curious about the steel support struts. |
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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:55:18 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote: On Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:49:09a, Stormin' Norman told us... On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:06:01 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote: On Thu 22 Jun 2017 08:28:27a, told us... On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:47:38 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote: Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand) experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. Sorry - no personal experience - but the " Instr " link on this page, has a pretty good 4-page pdf for installation instructions. http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/pag...44&cat=1,71685 If comparing price & quality of different brands - don't forget to look at the hardware included - good stainless steel - rather than cheapo ... John T. Ours is personal experience, but our sail was custom made due to the unusual shape we needed. On three sides there were heavy steel rods mounted to two existing walls and one beam. The sale was grommeted at one foot intervals and lced to the steel rods. On the fourth side a have steel cable was contained within the sale and eached was anchored into heavy eye bolts into two of the walls. The cable tensions was adjustable at both ends. We've had this sail for five years and it's as good as new. The company who made it does employ steel posts if required; e.g., where no other mounting location would work. That sounds very interesting. Any possibility of you posting a few pictures of it? I am curious about the steel support struts. When it's cool tomorrow morning I'll take a couple of pictures. It's too hot right now. I'll ping you. Thanks! I look forward to seeing them! |
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Shade Sails - Personal Experiences
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:38:37 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
wrote: On Fri 23 Jun 2017 02:23:26p, Stormin' Norman told us... On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 19:55:18 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote: On Fri 23 Jun 2017 06:49:09a, Stormin' Norman told us... On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 07:06:01 GMT, Wayne Boatwright wrote: On Thu 22 Jun 2017 08:28:27a, told us... On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:47:38 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote: Looking for anyone in the group who has personal (first hand) experience with purchasing and installing shade sails. I wish to cover the concrete driveway area outside of the six car garage and several other areas. I am looking for the best, most reputable vendors for the sails and for rigging hardware. I am also curious about what kind of posts were used for installation. With the level of tension required for the cables, it would seem that 6 - 8" diameter steel posts would be required. Any personal experiences with such projects would be welcome. Sorry - no personal experience - but the " Instr " link on this page, has a pretty good 4-page pdf for installation instructions. http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/pag...44&cat=1,71685 If comparing price & quality of different brands - don't forget to look at the hardware included - good stainless steel - rather than cheapo ... John T. Ours is personal experience, but our sail was custom made due to the unusual shape we needed. On three sides there were heavy steel rods mounted to two existing walls and one beam. The sale was grommeted at one foot intervals and lced to the steel rods. On the fourth side a have steel cable was contained within the sale and eached was anchored into heavy eye bolts into two of the walls. The cable tensions was adjustable at both ends. We've had this sail for five years and it's as good as new. The company who made it does employ steel posts if required; e.g., where no other mounting location would work. That sounds very interesting. Any possibility of you posting a few pictures of it? I am curious about the steel support struts. When it's cool tomorrow morning I'll take a couple of pictures. It's too hot right now. I'll ping you. Thanks! I look forward to seeing them! I hope these pics make sense. If not, post any questions you may have. BTW, all the hardware, including the cable, is stainless steel. https://postimg.org/image/ucjv0igqt/ https://postimg.org/image/4qa4eco1l/ https://postimg.org/image/oa7a5wnv9/ https://postimg.org/image/54miaeb6v/ https://postimg.org/image/8h2telwvr/ https://postimg.org/image/gu1zkp0nb/ https://postimg.org/image/tb5gxqt9x/ Thanks very much for taking the time and making the effort to take and post the images. It looks like they installed the steel struts / cleats on the two opposing long walls and they used a propylene rope to thread through the eyelets. It also looks like they used the wire rope to create the tension on the fabric. It is a professional looking job, and the hardware looks like it is first rate. What are the approximate dimensions of the shade sail? The next question is kind of subjective, but how would you describe the level of tension on the fabric? Taught as a drum? Trampoline-like, etc? Also, did you watch them do the install? How did they so accurately locate the studs behind the stucco? Were they using a high end stud finder? It looks like each of the cleat brackets is about 16" apart? I assume they must have used lag screws to attach the brackets to the walls? Lastly, the wall anchors they attached the wire rope to, what are those? Lag eyes or are they eye bolts that go all the way through the wall? |
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