Location: Cintsa, Eastern Cape · System: Adjustable Louvre + Fixed Sheeted Awning
The brief
A white house above the beach at Cintsa, with a terrace facing the sea behind a glass balustrade.
Coastal air is the hard part. Salt finds every fixing, every cut edge and every dissimilar metal contact, and it does not stop.
What we built
A white adjustable louvre roof over the sea-facing terrace, and a fixed sheeted awning on the same house.
White throughout, against a white house.
The system itself is set out under Louvre Awnings, and the gallery has more of it.
Why this one is here at all
Patio Projex works in Gauteng. This one is published because it shows the range, not because it advertises a service area.
If you are on the coast, we are not the right installer — but the questions to ask a local one are the same ones below.
The specification behind it
- Adjustable aluminium louvre roof to the terrace, white
- Fixed sheeted awning on the same house
- Glass balustrade to the terrace edge
- 15-year guarantee on aluminium, 10-year on Chromadek®
What salt air changes
Aluminium is the right material near the sea, which is why it is used on boats. What fails first is rarely the aluminium — it is the fixings, the cut edges and any point where two different metals touch with moisture between them.
There is rust staining on the plastered parapet below the terrace edge in these photographs — the kind of mark salt air leaves wherever it reaches steel.
If you’re considering the same
On the coast, ask any installer specifically what the fixings are made of. It is the answer that decides how the job looks in five years.
Inland work is what we do — see the full gallery.
