Are you looking forward to enjoying warm sunny days and balmy evenings at home? Perhaps it’s time to extend or improve your home’s outdoor living area ready for summer? A Brax folding arm awning can provide a distinctive and functional extension to your outdoor space as well as providing optimal shade protection for your home. Read on… your best summer awaits!

You gain control over the amount of sun entering your home – during the summer simply extend the shade to keep your home cool and provide a shady outdoor area. In winter it can be easily retracted to let in the light and warmth. The cantilever design, supported by strong spring tensioned arms, means that when extended, no other support is necessary. This provides a fully useable outdoor area up to 7 metres in width and up to 4 metres projected from the house.

Brax manufactures these robust folding arm awnings in Geelong using European hardware systems. We offer a range of designs including a full cassette version that encloses the fabric. This keeps it protected when not in use and increases the awning’s longevity.

Fabrics

When it comes to choosing a fabric colour for your new awning, there is an extensive range of colours available - from pastels to bold colours and an array of stripe designs. We recommend using solution dyed acrylic, designed to be both lightweight and durable. The yarn is dyed before weaving, ensuring outstanding fade resistance and ability to stand up to exposure to the elements. While they are also quite resistant to mildew, we do recommend you don’t put them away when wet. If you do happen to need to, then just pop them out to fully dry again as soon as possible.

Installation

One area you definitely don’t want to cut corners on is in the installation of your awning. We cannot stress enough how critical it is for awnings to have secure, solid fixing. When fully extended the awning can be affected by uplift or weight bearing down. If not correctly installed you risk structural damage to buildings. Professional installation is a must.

Operation

Most people think they don’t need to motorise their awnings, however in our experience it is well worth spending the extra money. By motorising your Brax awning, it means that operating it is really as simple as touching a button… so you are guaranteed to use it more! Retracting it is just as simple. Hit the button and in it comes. All that’s required is an external weatherproof powerpoint.

One key thing to remember is that you don’t always have to fully extend the awning. You control how far out is goes, so if it is a bit windy you can put the awning out a small amount just to shade your windows.

Your best summer awaits - and you don’t even have to leave your home!

Learn more about Brax folding arm awnings here.