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Commercial Shade Sails, Australian Sail Shades, Shade Sail

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Our commercial grade sail shades are made from the highest quality fabrics, selected to ensure you buy a superior grade product at a cost effective price. All commercial grade sail shades are made to your exact requirements, allowing you the scope to design your sail structure to suit your area perfectly.

The Commercial Grade sail shades are all individually made to the customer’s specification and are usually specified by architects and designers for high end and up market applications.

Typical uses would be:-

  • Exclusive Residences
  • Shopping Malls
  • Car Parks
  • Restaurants
  • Playgrounds
  • Outdoor dining areas
  • Hotels
  • Pubs

You can make your choice according to your structural, dimensional and strength requirements combined with your budget.

We have 2 methods of manufacturing our custom sized commercial grade sails, which we term light weight and heavy duty. The differences are explained below:

Lightweight Commercial Sails

Available in a selection of 5 contemporary colours, our light weight sails are constructed from 280gsm extra heavy duty knitted shade cloth. This fabric is ideal for medium to small domestic and commercial sail structures, and provides up to 90% UV protection and a 10 year warranty against UV breakdown of the cloth. Fabric properties are


 
WARPWEFT
Breaking Force/50mm;596 N2040 N
Breaking Extension86.1%56.2%
Tear resistance106 N186 N
Bursting Forcemean 1657 N


ColourUVA%UVB%Mean UPFShade factor %
Midnight Green92.492.31388
Light Green91.492.01274
Aquamarine89.290.81167
Sandstone93.994.31877
Rust88.088.5973
Blue Gum93.293.71682
Porcelain94.895.62376
Slate95.595.72393
Navy Blue95.795.92587
Yellow94.094.21769
Silver84.584.8787
Black96.996.93397
Claret89.691.71180
Bronze90.490.01080
Yellow94.094.21769

Light weight sails are reinforced with black 25mm (1”) perimeter seatbelt webbing, and have a 6mm stainless steel ring sewn into each corner for sail affixment purposes.

Heavy Duty Commercial Sails

Also available in a selection of 14 contemporary colours, our heavy duty sails are our premium flagship product. Constructed from 330gsm extra heavy duty knitted shade cloth, this fabric is ideal for larger domestic and commercial sail structures, and provides up to 95% UV protection and a 10 year warranty against UV breakdown of the cloth. This fabric’s strength to weight ratio makes it ideal for larger commercial shade structure projects, where the shade cloth fabric is exposed to the harsh environmental conditions of wind, rain, hail, dust and UV exposure. Fabric properties are as follows:

Heavy Duty specifications


 
WARPWEFT
Breaking force/50mm:799 N2147 N
Breaking extension:83.5%63.0%
Tear resistance:172 N282 N
Bursting force (Steel Ball):mean 1861 N
Bursting Pressure:mean 3000 N


Colour UVA% UVB% Mean UPF Shade factor %
Midnight Green 95.795.52391
Light Green 91.891.81379
Aquamarine 90.591.31273
Sandstone 92.892.91479
Rust 86.386.0774
Blue Gum 94.394.51888
Porcelain 95.095.42378
Slate 96.296.12794
Navy Blue 96.396.22789
Silver90.990.91195
Black95.995.82497
Claret94.095.01988
Bronze95.895.32189
Yellow95.395.22173

Heavy duty sails are reinforced around the perimeter using 50mm seatbelt webbing and have our own unique corner bracket, constructed from 8mm stainless steel and zinc plated for maximum longevity.

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