More shade

We like sun, but sun + shade more.

We should live in a big tent..

 

Shadesails

There was a time that I would not dream of drilling holes in the walls of the house. That time is over. Put two big hooks high up the walls in the corners to put up shadesails. Priorities, eh.

Quite difficult to get a triangle tensioned right! (It's not.)

Pergola - trusses - blocks (new!)

Our pergola is made with aluminium trusses, and basically not attached to anything. It's not light in total, but with stiff winds we've seen the whole structure being lifted up a bit, and banging down again. We did not like that much. We prefer not to have a totally fixed permanent structure. Both because we don't know exactly how and where, and want to be flexible. But also because they tax fixed structures like pergolas.

So, ingenieur Jansen went to work and made concrete blocks with a threaded M14 rod inside the concrete. Holes in the bottom plates of trusses, rings, bolts, and ready.

Shade sails. Again.

Sunny. Verry sunny today. Installed the shade sails. One of the two is badly torn, which we made worse on purpose. These sails catch quite some wind, but hopefully with all these slits not any more. We’ll see. (23° today (23 Feb 2019)!)

But, nope. Doesn’t work. Switching to: polyester.