Products / Folding-arm awnings
Deck shade for the gaps the canopy doesn’t cover
Retractable fabric awnings on spring-tensioned folding arms — no posts, no permanent roof, just shade on demand for the parts of a Tokai garden the pines don’t already shelter.
Plenty of Tokai gardens already get real shade from the plantation next door — but a deck or entertaining area angled toward open sky, or simply a few metres clear of the tree line, can still bake through a Cape Town summer afternoon. A folding-arm awning covers exactly that gap, retracting flush against the wall the rest of the time.
Why it suits a forest-edge garden
- Shade where the canopy stops — extends over the open part of a deck or braai area, and retracts to let winter sun through once the pines have already dropped the light.
- No posts, no clutter — nothing to work an outdoor table or braai around, and no interruption to sightlines into the garden or forest beyond.
- A genuine wind answer — the same gusts that move the pine canopy can catch an awning left extended. Motorised control with a wind sensor auto-retracts before that becomes a problem, which we treat as the responsible spec rather than an upsell.
Fabric and finish near the tree line
Solution-dyed acrylic fabric holds its colour under Cape Town UV, and a full-cassette mount (fabric and arms sealed away when retracted) is worth the upgrade close to the plantation boundary — it keeps pine needles and resin off the fabric between uses far better than an open frame.
Honest limitations
An awning is a shade product, not a rain product — fine at a pitch in light drizzle, not for standing water or a real Cape storm. And wind ratings are real limits: we’ll size and site the awning for what your particular corner of the garden actually catches, not a generic figure.
What a deck awning costs
An awning is priced per square metre of projection — the width along the wall multiplied by how far the arms reach out over the deck — installed. On a crank handle, allow roughly R3,500 to R5,500 per square metre of projection, rising with span and with a full cassette rather than an open frame. Motorised with a wind sensor, allow roughly R5,500 to R7,500 per square metre of projection.
A short awning still needs full-length arms, proper brackets and a look at the fixing substrate, so small projections carry a minimum charge instead of scaling down. These are planning figures: the deck is measured, the fixing checked and the number written up for you afterwards, at no cost.
Deck and entertaining-area awnings for family gardens in Bergvliet and Meadowridge, vineyard-facing patios around Constantia, and wind-rated installs on the more exposed decks of Steenberg’s estate homes.
Let’s measure your deck properly.
Free in-home measure, a written quote, and a wind rating that matches what your corner of the garden actually catches.