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Showing posts with label shadesails. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shadesails. Show all posts

Monday, May 5, 2025

Shadesails: you can never have enough

In Shadesails and More Shadesails you can see the shade making activities of engineer Jansen.  Yesterday the shadesails on the roof terrace, today he installed the last of the lower terrace area shadesails, using 12x60 mm wedge bolts and nylon rope. 

Roof terrace







Lower terrace






Tuesday, April 22, 2025

More shadesails

Where the table stands we use a big parasol. It's huge. It's the hugest parasol we have.  But, with the gusts of wind we experience here (huuuge gusts of wind!) the parasol blows over. And it's not huge enough. 

New plan: more shade sails. Probably option 3.

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Or

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Or
3

Friday, July 26, 2019

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.)


Wednesday, February 27, 2019

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.