The 5 mistakes to avoid with commercial awnings

If you’re deciding whether installing commercial awnings is right for your business, you might want to consider the many benefits of adding them that include:

• Providing protection from sun, rain and even snow
• Protecting your furniture from colour-fading
• Reducing summer heat by 65-77% depending on the positioning.
• Increasing attractiveness of your establishment and boosting the comfort of your customers.
• Doubling as advertisements

If you’re now convinced a commercial awning would be an investment to your establishment, consider these 5 key points before you purchase just anyone.

Material

You need to decide on what material is right for your commercial awnings. A Fabric one is great because it comes in all different colours and styles, but they do require more maintenance. Alternatively aluminum requires less to maintain, they’re durable and they absorb more of the heat, leaving your customers extra cool and comfortable.

Size and angle

Depending what angle your building faces the sun will determine how far your awning needs to descend. For areas facing east or west, a drop of 65-75% is best. For areas facing south, due to less sun exposure you’d only need a 45-60% drop.

When it comes to deciding on size, it depends if you require an awning for advertising purposes or to maximize sun protection. If it’s for sun protection then choose a bigger one.

Retractable or freestanding

The third step is to decide which kind of awnings would suit your needs?

There are 2 main choices; retractable and freestanding. Retractable awnings are becoming popular because it can retract allowing the sun to come through in colder days and extend out to protect the suns ray for hotter ones. Additionally theses awnings have the ability to extend out as far as necessary.

There are businesses that prefer the freestanding awning because they can double as advertisement space.

Style

There are many different styles of commercial awnings that could suit your requirements, such as:

• Hooded awnings
• Lourved awnings
• Clear PVC awnings
• Aluminum awnings
• Retractable awnings
• Freestanding awnings

Consult a commercial awning expert to help you decide which one best suits your style of business and purpose.

Colour

It’s a great idea to decide on the awning colour based on your business colours and one that suits your environments. But keep it mind that light-colored awnings block and reflect sunlight the best. They keep your customers cooler, reduce your air-conditioning costs and normally blend in to most buildings without an issue.

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