"Canvas" roof/awning

[Huge]

I'd like a canvas roof/awning over the (virtual) deck I've yet to build. Those 'leccy things that reach out from the house are too expensive and no good anyway (I need at least a 4 metre reach). I was thinking of having a wooden "roof" structure and unrolling the canvas like giant horizontal roller blind.

Comments? Plans? Suppliers?

[Owain]

"Huge" wrote | I'd like a canvas roof/awning over the (virtual) deck I've yet to | build. Those 'leccy things that reach out from the house are too | expensive and no good anyway (I need at least a 4 metre reach). | I was thinking of having a wooden "roof" structure and unrolling | the canvas like giant horizontal roller blind.

You might find it cheaper to have two 2metre awnings, one attached to the house and the other attached to the 'pergola' structure , so they approximately meet in the middle. Or even 3 awnings, one from the house and two others going towards and awaywards the house from a pergola two-thirds of the way along from the house.

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Obviously the awnings would be flatter than that.

And manual rather than electric. Shop awning suppliers are likely to be more robust and possibly not more expensive than the terribly-homes-and-gardens-at-number-7b shops.

Even if 2/3 awnings are > 1 big awning, at least you could spread the cost buy buying a bit each year. You might even discover you don't need the full deck awned.

Failing that, buy a marquee or army mess tent and use it without the side flaps, which you could also use on holiday and take with you when you move.

Owain

[Huge]

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Of course! Shop awnings - I didn't think of that. Thank you!