Awning

An awning is so important to building, as a secondary overhanging attachment or covering to the wall or any new-and-existing structure. It can be fabricated using polycarbonate, acrylic, canvas, timber, glass, steel, aluminium, vinyl to many others. Imaging it to be your extra roof shelter to protect you or your other components of the building from the sunshine that cause harmful ultraviolet (UV), rainwater, dust, foreign object or even as to be a privacy-based security application. Some countries with four seasons use a lot of awnings to safeguard their wall, window, door, car, garden, furniture to assets from the hot summer or most important the freezing winter and its snow.

Of course, an awning can be a good wind resistant barrier to many building, from high rise to landed properties. Anyhow, when it is being utilized for such function, it shall be strengthened properly onto the attached wall or structure or the standalone civil works, column, beam, purlin, truss, frame need to be there at the greatest condition with an appropriate calculation for the sake of safety. Many materials are practical to regulate the temperature while still enable sufficient lighting to be shined into the underneath or to the internal of building. Restaurant, hotel, resort or buildings' entrance that requires to look grand can put on the awning as shade while outdoor activities to a building or eating area of the cafe will also use awning.

Since the commercialized application of awning that made everyone can use it extensively while enjoying lower cost with wide varieties of selection from design, material, shape, pattern, colour, texture, support structure; by then, an awning is often used as supplemental cover or roof either temporary as well as permanently installed. Awning assists intensively to shield outdoor and indoor from sun exposure and many information of awning shall be acknowledged before deciding which type to go for. For instance, narrow down the need as in budget, size, purpose, duration and others can be advised by awning specialist or those awning suppliers with installation services.

This overhanging door, entrance, window or side's product can have a lot of names such as canopy, shelter, roof panel and it is installed to car porch, landscape, party, event or even standalone type of mobile awning-with-stand. Its style can be as much as to manual or remote control, where can be divided into a full or half cassette. The full cassette has its casing made usually by metal to enclose the whole awning sheet after it is being rolled and kept, while half cassette covers only the half-top for the awning. Rolling up or foldable type of awning save a lot of space when the weather is in favoured or against your need, feel free to enjoy great design with any outdoor activities, from your garden, cafe or balcony safely.

Energy conservation is one of the awning's features as in it provides natural sunlight when required, whereas it can also manage the wind circulation for ventilation while can retain stable ideal room temperature by blocking sun damage from the additional harmful ray. The research found out that awning could put room temperature to a range of reduction or enhancement by at least eight degrees to not more than sixteen degrees. Depending on which type of materials is being employed, the functionality can be more or less there in term of the figure. For example, fabric-based (vinyl or polyester composite fabrics, nylon, PVC, PE) one are naturally fire retardant while offering superior waterproof attribute.

The fabric-made awning is flexible, lighter in weight and also quick-to-produce versatility while acrylic or polycarbonate can perform similar application when the area to be installed has a high level of humidity. Places with higher chance to be exposed to sunlight and rainfall shall use these materials. Polycarbonate and acrylic sheet as awning provides transparent, translucent or coloured without an unobstructed view and they can be a good substitute to glass as a lightweight option, a coating can be done to wooden, vinyl, metal to achieve higher heat resistant, mildew and durability. Nowadays, people tend to use lesser of steel-based awning since it will produce more noise when rainfall or foreign objects fall onto it, while the heavier cost to structural support.

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