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Cream shade sail stretched over a wood deck beside a house, with a gravel garden and palms
Representative photo: a shade sail stretched over a deck beside a house.
Fabric & retractable

Shade sail

Tensioned fabric on posts or building anchors. The fastest and cheapest way to put real shade over a patio, and the one most obviously temporary — the fabric is a consumable measured in years.

Essential cost band

The workhorse option. Does the job, lasts, and is what most of a yard is made of.

Colour families

  • Sand
  • Charcoal
  • Terracotta

Families, not products. The exact colour gets chosen off a physical sample against your house.

What is true of this material

Shade
Set by the fabric — shade factor is a published number, ask for it
Anchors
The posts and footings are the engineering, not the sail
Life
The fabric is a consumable and gets replaced

Attributes