Awning features
Gearbox and Downpipes
The two things an adjustable awning must do for decades: move smoothly and drain properly. Here's how ours do both, in Cape Town, Johannesburg and beyond.
1½ turns, open to closed
The gearbox
Stainless steel and brass, geared just right
We fit a unique stainless steel and brass gearbox with a perfect ratio: the crank handle turns one and a half times to take the louvres from fully open to fully closed. Light enough for a child, precise enough to park the blades at any angle in between.
Because the metals don't corrode, the action stays smooth year after year — including at the coast, where lesser gearboxes seize.
- Effortless operation — no straining at a stiff handle
- Maintenance-free stainless and brass internals
- Motorisation available if you'd rather press a button
Rain, routed
The downpipes
Water off the roof, not onto your guests
Standard white PVC downpipes carry water from the frame and fascia gutter down and away. Where a house has no gutter of its own, we add PVC guttering too — otherwise rain sheets off the roof above straight onto the louvre panels, especially from an upper storey, and no awning enjoys that.
It's the unglamorous half of the system, and it's why our patios stay dry in a proper Joburg thunderstorm.
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Nationwide, since 1988
We service all areas in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and on the Garden Route
Local teams measure, manufacture and fit from four branches — head office in Cape Town, plus Johannesburg, Pretoria and Wilderness.