Location: Randpark Ridge, Randburg · System: Adjustable Louvre
The brief
A face-brick house with a generous rear patio.
Nothing here calls for a statement. The patio needs to be usable in February and dry in November, and to look like part of the house.
What we built
An adjustable louvre roof on a charcoal frame with white blades, tied into the existing roof line at the house and carried on posts at the outer edge. The fascia beam is boxed, giving a flat edge that lines up with the brickwork rather than a stepped one that draws attention to itself.
The blades run on a manual control. Open, the patio gets the winter sun it always had; closed, the run-off is collected in the beam instead of falling off the front of the roof.
Louvre Awnings covers how it is built; Randburg has more of it nearby.
Fitting new work to an old roof line
On an established house the hardest part is rarely the span — it is the junction. Older Randburg homes have generous patios and roof lines that were never set out for anything to be added to them.
Because we manufacture to the measurements taken on site, the new frame is cut to the roof that exists, not to a stock length that then needs packing, trimming or a strip of flashing to make it fit.
The specification behind it
- Adjustable aluminium louvre roof — charcoal frame, white blades
- Boxed fascia beam with the gutter integrated
- Manual gearbox or automated operation
- Custom-made to the dimensions taken on site
- 15-year guarantee on aluminium, 10-year on Chromadek®
Why we keep coming back to white blades
It is the single change that most affects the room behind the patio. A white blade reflects daylight down and inwards; the lounge stays bright even with the roof closed.
On a face-brick house the pairing also does something for the outside: the charcoal frame gives you the crisp line, the white blades keep the underside from turning into a dark cave against a dark wall.
If you’re considering the same
Photograph the junction where a new roof would meet your existing one, and send it with your enquiry. That single picture answers more quoting questions than the patio dimensions do.
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