Stylize your pergola with a Baldwin Retractable Shade

It's not just beautiful, it blocks the sun too!

Stylize your pergola with a Baldwin Retractable Shade

Glen Raven's Sunbrella fabric is offered in 175 different colors and patterns in this fabric catagory called Awnings, Canopies and Pergola Shade. The furniture fabric not nearly as stiff.

Stylize your pergola with a Baldwin Retractable Shade

Sunbrella contains no cotton. It doesn't hold water and doesn't mildew.

Stylize your pergola with a Baldwin Retractable Shade

Water rolls over the tightly knit fabric. Because the shade is supported in the center only, the bows curve gently downward which encourages the rain water to run toward either edges. The water cannot pool.

Stylize your pergola with a Baldwin Retractable Shade

The fabric carries a ten year warrantee but our shades typically last twenty years or more.

The Retractable Shade

Baldwin Pergolas and Retractable Shades integrate seamlessly.

The Retractable Shade

In the 1980's everyone built a pressure treated deck. During the 1990's those decks were replaced with stone or paver patios.

The Retractable Shade

Stone patios get really, really hot in the direct sun making the patio unusable.

The Retractable Shade

In the early 2000's pergolas were very rare but people discovered that pergolas block enough of the sun to maker their patios usable again.

The Retractable Shade

Pergolas became very popular but... having a fabric cover means you can enjoy your patio during a light rain or in the scorching heat of August.

The Retractable Shade

The shades should be inexpensive, durable and simple to operate. Everythings a balance and our Retractable Shade seems to get the balance right.

The Retractable Shade

If you choose a blue color fabric, the 10% of light that passes through will carry that blue aura. Light colored fabrics let more sun shine through. Patterns can give you the color you desire but may not carry the aura down to the patio because of the patterns color diversity.

The Retractable Shade

It's possible to install the shade with the guide rails tilted a bit, encouraging more rain water to run in one direction or the other.

The Retractable Shade

Hire us to do the installation or follow our carefully written instructions and hang the shade yourself. It's gratifying work.

The Retractable Shade

Protect your family and friends from the overwhelming heat.

The Retractable Shade

You don't need a smart telephone to operate our retractable shade.

The Retractable Shade

Attached pergola with Retractable Shade©

Attached pergola with Retractable Shade ©

Attached pergola with Retractable Shade ©

Attached pergola with Retractable Shade ©

Freestanding pergola with TWO Retractable Shades©

The Sunbrella fabric is heavy. When a pergola is large, two systems might be the way to go.

Freestanding pergola with TWO Retractable Shades©

Typically one end of the shade is fixed - its immovable. The other end has bearings which roll in the track.

Freestanding pergola with TWO Retractable Shades©

We've done projects where both ends have the bearings and eyebolt. Either end can be the lead end.

Freestanding pergola with TWO Retractable Shades©

The shade can be locked at any position along it's route. This gives your family full control of who gets sun and who gets shade.

Freestanding pergola with TWO Retractable Shades©

We provide painted fiberglass shade guides which we put above or below the shades depending on the circumstance.

Freestanding pergola with TWO Retractable Shades©

We also have an aluminum C channel track which fits above AND below the shade bows.

Freestanding pergola with training

Here we see Mark going over the operation of the shade system.

Freestanding pergola with training

The hand crank has a hook on the end which fits into the eyebolt which is in the leading trolly.

Freestanding pergola with training

By turning the eyebolt counter clockwise, you remove the tension and the trolly rolls easily along the track.

Freestanding pergola with training

The hand crank and hook allow you to pull the shade, by way of the eyebolt, to the extended position.

Freestanding pergola with training

When the shade is extended all the way, pull it taut while cranking the handle clockwise to lock trolley from rolling.