Location: Germiston, East Rand · System: Adjustable Louvre — two bays
The brief
The house is a low, wide cream-plastered build with a brick-paved patio and the pool close to its edge, fenced as pool regulations require. The existing patio was long and narrow — good for a table, hopeless in summer sun.
What the space needs is one continuous cover rather than two separate awnings.
What we built
An adjustable louvre roof in two bays, carried on a central beam so the span is broken structurally without being broken visually. The frame is charcoal, the blades white, and the whole run reads as one roof from the garden.
Blades are adjusted by hand — nothing to power, nothing to service, and no reason to leave the roof at whatever angle it happened to be left at last week.
Louvre Awnings covers how it is built; Benoni & the East Rand has more of it nearby.
Working next to a pool
Pool-side installations bring two constraints most patios do not. The first is the fence line: the structure has to land clear of it, because moving a compliant pool fence to suit an awning is not a trade-off worth making.
The second is water. A roof with no gutter dumps its run-off exactly where people walk barefoot. Ours collects in the perimeter beam and leaves through downpipes we place with you, not wherever the frame happens to end.
The specification behind it
- Adjustable aluminium louvre roof in two bays off a central beam
- Charcoal frame with white blades
- Hand-adjusted blades — no motor, no wiring
- All-round gutter with downpipe outlets placed to suit the paving
- 15-year guarantee on aluminium, 10-year on Chromadek®
Why a long patio wants one roof, not two
Two separate awnings over one patio always show the join, and the gap between them becomes a drip line straight down the middle of the seating.
Running two bays off a shared beam keeps a single fall, a single gutter and a single blade line. From underneath, you read a continuous ceiling of blades; from the garden, one horizontal edge instead of two competing ones.
If you’re considering the same
For a patio longer than about two normal bays, ask how the span is being broken before you compare quotes — a cheaper structure often means an extra post landing somewhere you would rather walk.
See more of our work in Benoni and the East Rand.
