Shadow sail, supported by racks, is essentially a small construction project. Holes must be measured and pulled out, received messages and concretized. Several site visits are also required to ensure accurate measurements throughout the project. All this work can be worth while using a third-party installer. There are several points to consider if you are measuring and setting yourself.
- The disadvantages of DIY to avoid: before buying a sail shade, first measure the shadow area and determine the possible attachment points. We call a lot from customers who have bought a stick with shades of DIY, go back home to find that it will not match the available fixing points!
- Properly stretched sails have curved or concave edges, and the depth of the curve is about 10% of the outer surface of the sail. Remember that measuring this curvature and using fasteners means that the sail covers a smaller area.
- Sails on a flat surface may contain water. Consider the slope of the material to spill water. The most common solution is to have opposite corners at significantly different heights.
- If you do not roll stretched and twisted sails, you may become unstable in the wind. It must be properly tensioned in order to have some curvature and be twisted into a flexible form.
- Avoid thick cloth that can hang and absorb water.
- Sails made with a single-line or poor chain line, as this can be reversed under stress or strain. Too many seams in the sail can break under stress.
- Corner rings that are not made of galvanized steel can rust and discolor the surrounding material.
