24′ x 24′ Sun Shade Sail UV Block Fabric Canopy in Beige Sand Square for Patio Garden Customized Sizes 3 Year Limited Warranty

Ok. I just recently installed this Sun Shade. We have a 10×30 wood deck along the back of our house. Where a good portion approx. 50% get constant sun turning it too hot to stand on the wood. Did not use the supplied rope, I used paracord. It fits our need to be able to shade our deck and it might help with shading our sliding glass door and thus shading our family room.

Installation: I decided to forgoe the “amazon recommended” hardware. I do not have posts to attach the sun shade, so I came up with a solution. I took 1inch galvanized conduit (10foot) and bent it where I wanted and screwed the lower portion to the kickplate of the deck. The top portion of conduit I inserted an eye bolt and I attached an eye screw to my wood eave at the stud at the house. Using paracord and spring clips attach the sun shade to the eyes. The conduit is also anchored to the lawn using paracord and ground stakes to prevent swing of conduit (tension is needed for the sun shade) and can be adjusted. It should be simple to take down during Indiana offseasons and simple to mow that Indiana lawn (just unhook from ground stakes & mow). Overall, think home made simple camping tent. All materials including sun shade under $90. Did have access to a conduit bender through work.

Durability: This sunshade seems like it should last a few summer seasons. Lightweight fabric/nylon with double stitched d-looped corners looks like they will hold well. Overall, seems well made but jury is still out, I’ll try to update in year.

Can’t give 5 of 5 for unknown time duration of the sun shade, yet.

Update (6/22/17) – After 1 year I’d say this is worth the $$. Still in good shape, it has stretched a little bit which can be expected. If high powered winds (tornadic weather) would occur I’d take the shade down, but other types of storms I’d leave it up. The sun shade looks like it will last several more summers. The D-rings are showing a bit of rust, but not bad at all. This year I added paracord attached to opposite corners to create an “X” along the underside of the shade for extra support in hopes to reduce stretching the fabric from higher speed winds. Updated to 5 stars.

We haven’t had this up too long yet, but are liking it. Seems like it will last well…only time will tell on that. It’s been through a couple of good rains. The rain goes through – as it is designed to do – so there isn’t pooling of water on the canopy like there would be on a tarp, which would cause terrible sagging and difficulty emptying off the water, plus stench. We have reasonable winds since it’s been up and no issues there. This 12×12 size provides a great amount more shade than the crank up umbrella style we had previously. I love that it is up for the entire season once up, rather than having to set up the umbrella one – which the cable broke on by the way and a mouse chewed through the canopy of b/c they could get to it. No mouse is likely to get to this always high up mounted canopy shade. This one is lighter too, and with the rain vented fabric there is good airflow along with the shade from the sun. This is a nice mix of color I would say is golden-ivory-taupe mix that would seem to look nice with many different home colors. The light color also helps with not generating extra heat under the shade. Our umbrella one was brown and was hot underneath it even though it did provide shade. This is a great product idea I have already emailed my family and friends a picture of mounted and recommended to a one friend who said they’ve been looking for just such an item!

During the evening our patio is well shaded but during the day it receives no shade and is unbearable to be on. We had thought about putting up a pergola but they are a lot of work to build and can be very expensive. This was the perfect alternative. I pounded in 3′ long 1-1/4′ galvanized steel pipe flush to the ground and then bought 10′ 1″ galvanized steel pipe to slide inside of it for two of the corners. I attached the other two corners to hooks on the eve of the house. I filled the 3′ pipes with a little sand so the 10′ poles only go about a 2′ deep giving me a height of 8′ above the ground. It works great, I can easily remove the poles when I don’t want them. If I had to do it again I would probably use 1-1/2″ pipe for in the ground and 1-1/4″ for the poles because the 1″ pipe does flex a bit in a 10-15mph wind and I don’t think they could take much over 15mph.
The material is strong and blocks the sun well. It does allow water to pass through but not very quickly so if you are expecting rain you will definitely want to take it down. The material does stretch over time so be sure to account for about 6″ of adjustment on each corner. I used small turnbuckles on two of the corners.

Needed to put up a quick patio cover without all the expense of wood, paint, and hardware. This product fit the requirement perfectly. Already had the polls and supports from the old patio roof, Just needed to attach the four corners.

I’m very happy with the wind/sun screen for my Champion Golden Retrievers at Goldiva Goldens LLC. I’m going to buy the triangular shades for my outside kennels for the visiting/boarding dogs. We have a pergola that we built for the dogs but it didn’t provide enough shade in the summer. This canvas shade/wind screen even held up a couple hundred pounds of snow when we had an unexpected early storm. We had to shovel off the snow but there wasn’t any damage done. We used karabeaners for the corners and big-eye screws to toggle them on. It worked perfect. Then we used 3 pieces of strapping to keep the shade screen from drooping down, similar to what we do with boats with an arched piece of strapping to push up and make tight. Thank you for a great product. Mary Dickinson Cashin, Goldiva Goldens LLC, Cumberland, Maine