Green Bay Sun Shade Sail Awning Canopy UV Block Triangle Sand 2x2x2m

3.6 x3.6 m Sand colour., I Was not impressed at first the Shade Sails seam down the middle is gathered in places and not been stretched out in the sewing, I had it tensioned using ratchet straps for 3 days and it still sagged and wrinkles in the seam of folds. I've tried everything to overcome this the outside edges are so tight you could play tune on them and still the middle sags, for rain water to collect and run off, I didn’t want to keep checking the weather forecast and take it down every time it rained as one day I may forget. The best solution I found was to use 6mm turnbuckles on each corner ,I mounted 2 point on the Bungalow 4m centres just under the gutter into joists at 2.4 m high, one corner to a 100mm sq wooden fencing post with a concrete spur post lent back away from sail at @5 degs 2.2 m high and last one at 1.5m high to a wall this give a twist in the sail allowing rain to run off and not to puddle in the middle and turn into a pond . With this solution it survived a thunderstorm with no collection of water.Item I purchased to install this Sun Sail 2x stainless 4x 8mm lifting eye wood screws, 2mm 10m stainless wire, 4x 6mm stainless Turnbuckles with hook at both ends, 4x 2mm stainless wire rope grip clamp. 4x 2mm stainless wire rope clamp thimble and 4x 5mm stainless Carabiner Snap hooks. I had trouble sourcing 12.5 sq post as recommended in the fitting instructions supplied so I used a 1x 3m 100mm sq wooden post with a postsaver applied 100mm sq 120cm long concrete spur with 12mm coach bolts to suit, 6x 20kg of post mix cement a small 20 kg of pea gravel , 2x 25mm ratchet straps which in all cost more a lot more than the price of sun sail. It was worth Mrs very happy with sun sail and looks good.

This is the 3rd sun sail I've bought from this company. We (my children) damaged the first two, but we were happy enough to replace with the same ones. They were the sand colour.This time I thought I'd get cream for a change. It's very pale, more so than I expected. Not that it matters much (though in hindsight I do prefer the sand colour).Now my husband as soon as he got hold of it to put it up said he believed this one to be thinner than our two previous sand colour ones. Also, we used our sail all year round, including throughout autumn and winter, in all sorts of bad weather, as a rain shelter outside for my husband when he goes out for a cigarette.The previous two sand ones were brilliant. They offered great cover from the rain leaving a fairly decent dry area underneath.However this cream one isn't as good at sheltering from the rain.... Strange. Exactly the same product (as far as we are aware and made to believe), but less waterproof, and thinner, than the sand colour one we've bought twice before...I don't know. Perhaps the rain is different...or perhaps the sails are lower quality than previously, or perhaps the cream is indeed just thinner than the sand... Either way, I just wish I'd not gone for the cream and stuck with the sand colour as usual.There's nothing I can do about it now as we opened it, and put it up. And I know that the company doesn't claim for the sails to be waterproof, just water resistant. So I can't return based on it not sheltering well enough from the rain, it is a SUN shelter after all.I highly recommend the sand colour one, providing that it's simply a case of the cream being thinner than the sand, if you're looking for a bit of shelter from the rain.But I won't buy the cream one again.

For us, this was easy to put up from building to building. I imagine it would not be so easy with having to put up vertical supports - there is a lot of force involved, even before it catches the wind. Unlike our earlier attempts with tarps, there is far less noise. The material and fasteners seem sturdy. The yellow colour is attractive and reflects the sun, so the under-surface is cooler than it might otherwise be. Only time will test the durability, but if it lasts several seasons in London, we will be well satisfied.End of season update: it was a blessing during the hot weather of 2020 but once the rain came, even a fairly small rain, many, many litres of water collected, creating a massive blob of water in the centre. Even with 'only' 20-30 litres of water, it was too heavy to unhook! The solution was to drill about a dozen small holes in the blob to drain it out. Because it's a plasticised material, I used a heated (then unplugged) soldering iron to make self-healing holes - or so I hope. Anyway, water drained, it became tractable to drying out. The manufacturer should consider putting holes or grommets in the centre from the start; it won't affect the sun shielding but will avoid the water collection problem!

I had purchased an items previously from a different retailer, which let me down and was not very good quality at all. I took a punt and ordered this one and I am very impressed with it. It is strong and durable and looks great. Make sure you order the good quality heavy duty fixings and you will be happy. I would make one suggestion for the manufacture on the larger sails, as I have the 4m x 4m one and that would be to put an eyelet in the middle for an extra anchor point, which would reduce the tension on the corner ones, but overall very happy with it.

Having bought one 4x3m rectangle and being very pleased with it I decided to get a second one in a different colour.Originally, I bought blue as I thought it went well with the children's pool and gave them a bit of shade. This one is very waterproof, and in fact filled up in a shower when I initially didn't have it set at enough of an angle. Even the seam between the two pieces of fabric held water.I then purchased a cream one to go with my garden furniture, and as noted in an other comment, this one lets the water through even in light showers. Not exactly helpful when you're hoping it will also help protect furniture. Washing with waterproofing solution (Nikwax) seems to have helped but also make sure the seam overlaps the right direction for your slope.