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Elegant and Versatile Design:

The crisp white shade sail with matching webbing as a touch of sophistication and elegance to any outdoor area, seamlessly blending with various home decor styles.
Its neutral tone allows it to complement any colour scheme, giving you the freedom to match it with your existing outdoor furniture and accessories.

Superior Sun Protection: Endorsed by The Cancer Council 
Architectural Shade Fabric - Commercial Heavy 430gsm 

Our shade sail material is specially designed to block harmful UV rays, ensuring that you and your loved ones stay protected from the sun's harsh effects.

It provides excellent shade coverage, allowing you to enjoy your outdoor space without worrying about excessive heat or sunburns.

If you need another size, just contact the Shady Ladies for a quote. 

We have a large range of Australian-made fabrics, such as Monotec, products endorsed by the Cancer Council and all the hardware you need to install the shade canopy.

We ship our Shady Lady ready-made and custom-made shade sails worldwide and offer great pricing to our USA and Canadian customers. Please click here to go to our USD website.

 

If you have just start looking around at shade sail designs, you will see a lot that is installed with two high posts and two low posts, this is called a Hypar Design which creates a twist in your shade sail, you can only create this design if you have 4 or more fixing points.

A hyper design is easily done with custom made shade sails but can be a bit more tricky with the buy now ready-made shade sails.

The hyper design ensures a strong shade sail that keeps its tension and doesn't flap around in the wind, this design increases tension in the shade sail, reducing flapping in the wind. 

Commonly Asked Questions

What is the standard height of the poles? The standard height for the low fixing point on the poles is 2200mm from the ground

What is the average height difference between the fixing points? Most shade sail installers would have a difference of around 1 meter or more depending on the size of the shade sail.

Is there a formula for the size of the shade sail? Yes there is, this is the formula example

7000mm x 15% = 1050mm (1050mm would be the height variation to get the hypar design) Pole heights - If you low fixing point is at 2200mm add the1050mm to get the height of the high fixing points which would be 3250mm

5000mm  x 15% = 750mm (750mm would be the height variation to get the hypar design) Pole heights - If you low fixing point is at 2200mm add the 750mm to get the height of the high fixing points which would be 2950mm

This can be made more to get a more dramatic effect.

Which sides should I make high and which sides should I make low? Work out where the sun rises and falls, remember the shade will only be directly underneath the shade sail when the sun is directly on top of the shade sail.

The lower points create a lower edge so the sun can not cut in under it as the higher edges.

Please comment on our post if you have found this helpful or message us with other questions.

The Shady Ladies.

 

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The Shady Ladies always recommend that you get your shade sail first before installing your fixing points.

Steel posts are widely used for Shade Sail installation. They can be sourced from local steel fabricators as they would need to be delivered and this would save on delivery costs if any. You are best to contact a few to find the best price.  Standard posts are 4mm 90mm galvanized posts and 1/3 of the post should be concreted in the ground for standard sun shade sail use. Wooden posts are also used but we are not able to advise which wooden posts are suitable, you will need to check with the supplier and let them know what the shade sail size is you are erecting.

Other resources to find 2nd hand posts - gumtree, eBay, local trading posts.

Please view our installation guide at www.theshadesailshop.com.au

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