The Seasonal Argument A Fixed Roof Can't Make
A werf-facing stoep bakes in the low, late-afternoon summer sun for months at a time — exactly the elevation a fixed roof would shade all year, including the mild winter afternoons when that same low sun is genuinely welcome. A folding-arm awning solves both: extended in summer, retracted through winter, on the same bracket.
Full Cassette Or Open Mounting
A full cassette seals the fabric and arms away when retracted — the right call for a weather-exposed werf elevation. Semi-cassette or open mounting works well on a more sheltered stoep. Projection runs to roughly 3–4m over wide spans, in solution-dyed acrylic fabric that holds its colour under Cape summer UV.
Honest Limits
An awning is a shade product, not a rain product — fine at a pitch for light drizzle, never for standing water. The fixing substrate matters too: brick, timber and steel farmstead walls all take a bracket differently, which is exactly what your free measure is for.
Fitted Across The Valley
We fit folding-arm awnings on stoeps throughout Groot Drakenstein and out to smallholdings near Simondium, newer patios around Klapmuts, courtyards in Franschhoek and homes near Paarl.