Why Shade Sails are the best shade solution for your home
January 16th, 2014 · Published to Shade Sails
Australia’s weather condition varies widely due to its enormous size. The southern part of the country has cold winters while summers in some regions can be extremely hot. In Brisbane for example, warm or hot weather is experienced most of the year. However during summer months, the city experience rainfall, thunderstorms, and occasional flood. Although this isn’t applicable to all of Australia, the climate is very similar for other regions, which include the Gold Coast, Cairns and Sydney.
For this reason, residents in these regions are typically looking for the perfect shade solution for their homes. A solution that they can use during hot summer days so they don’t have to worry about the harmful effects of UV rays and still enjoy the outdoors. When it comes to a reliable shade solution that’s both effective and affordable, you can’t go past Shade Sails.
What are Shade Sails?
A Shade Sail is based on a ship’s sail technology and one of the best solutions for residential properties wanting to create outdoor shade. This uses a flexible tension membrane designed to hold the cloth and is tensioned between several anchor points. These are very easy to set up and are typically used on seating areas and even on playgrounds when prolonged stays in the open sun can result to dangerous and unpleasant effect on the skin.
Originally, shade sails were made using regular fabrics to provide shade when needed. However, both users and manufacturers observed that regular cloth suffers from UV degradation and overtime, become less and less effective in blocking the sun’s harmful UV rays. For this reason, UV inhibitors are now added during the manufacturing of the cloth and most of the shade cloth available in market now comes with a multi-year UV degradation warranties.
Why Shade Sails are the best for your home
Shade sails are typically used in tropical climates to provide people with much-needed shade. We typically see these in shopping centre car parks, on playgrounds, local public pools, skate parks, and even at coffee shops or restaurants that offer al fresco dining.
Australia experiences warm weather most of the time and because shade sails offer cost-effective shade solution, they are definitely a great addition to your property. They are very versatile and can be used for multiple applications.
Below are just a few of the most common uses for Shade Sails around the home:
Entertainment
If you love the idea of entertaining guests outdoors or you simply want to enjoy reading your favourite book on your backyard, you can use shade sails to provide a cooler environment. They can optimise the use of existing structures like patios or decks. If you want to entertain your friends outdoors, then one, or multiple shade sails will help you create an outdoor living space even during the hot summer months.
Carport: Vehicle protection
Some of our biggest investments are our cars thus, it is important to ensure that they are protected all the time. Instead of parking in an open driveway where a car can be exposed to the elements, protect your car by simply installing shade sails over your driveway or alongside your house. Shade sails can also be used to protect your boats, caravans, and other expensive investments.
Pools
If your property has a pool, you’ll definitely want to cover at least a part of it to protect yourself and your family from the blazing summer sun. Shade Sails will not only help you fight extreme sunburn or worse, skin cancer, but they can also provide that much-needed shade to keep your pool cooler during extremely hot conditions.
Playground
We all want the best for our children therefore we provide them everything we can offer; in terms of a home, this often means a big backyard for playing, some lucky kids may even have a pool, swing sets, sand pits or a cubby house, but often their outdoor play time is limited due to harmful UV rays or the heat. Protect them by getting shade sails that can block out up to 98% of UV rays that are extremely harmful to children. This shade solution will allow your kids to playing outside no matter the season.
If you love summer and want to continue being active outdoors without having to suffer from the harmful effects of sun’s UV rays, you should seriously consider adding Shade Sails to your home. Shade Sails can be installed in your backyard, on your children’s playground, patio, and carport. Here at Global Shade we provide the highest quality shade sails that are perfect for your home. We offer shade sails Australia wide including Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Tasmania, and Darwin. For questions, please call us at 1800 724 407 or email info@globalshade.com.au – we’d love to hear from you.
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