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Finding the perfect spot: Choosing the best location to install a pergola
Finding the perfect spot: Choosing the best location to install a pergola
Pergolas or canopies have long been favoured for their ability to transform outdoor spaces into elegant and inviting oasis. This versatile structure provides a combination of shade, aesthetics, and a touch of outdoor beauty, making it a popular choice for homeowners looking to enhance their outdoor experiences. However, the success of a project greatly depends on one important decision: where to install it. Samson Outdoor Living expert team will help you to explore the key factors to consider the best location for your pergola in this article.
Install an awning in the winter time? Why not?
During the winter, you are most likely spending more time indoors and may ignore any outside property improvements. You may be thinking about adding a new awning next spring, but by planning and ordering an awning in the winter, you may discover that you can enjoy some unique perks. Here are several reasons why installing a patio awning in December, January, or February is a good idea:
1. Availability
Summer months see significantly more installations and contracting works than the winter months. Since many homeowners have the same idea to add a new awning to their property throughout the summer, the spring and summer months are the busiest. A winter awning installation, on the other hand, is more likely to provide a flexible date to install your awnings. That is why now is such a good time to consider installing a residential awning.
2.Savings on your energy cost
We all know how unpredictable the British weather can be, so getting your awning installed now will allow you to enjoy it as soon as the weather warms up. When the spring arrives, having an awning in place can help you save money from fans or air conditioners bill right away. Awnings provide shade, allowing less direct, blazing sunshine into your home. If you choose a winter awning installation and have your awning in place before the warm spring and summer days, you will be able to take advantage of the savings for the entire sunny season.
3.Promotion
Ordering with us this winter will save you £££ on any Awnings, Verandas, Glassrooms, Canopies or Pergolas, you are eligible to get the offer of up to 50% off LED lighting! Looking for an easy way to brighten your outdoor space and make the most of the colder months? Adding LED lighting to one of our stunning retractable fabric awnings is a great way to create an outdoor living environment in your garden, patio or terrace.
Browse our impressive collection of beautiful outdoor living products and discuss with our team of experts how a retractable awning installed in the winter months will benefit you for years to come!
Contact us today for any questions that you have any enquiries:
Tel: 01933 448 844
Email: enquiries@samsonawnings.co.uk
What to do in your garden in July?
Summer is approaching, and the summer check lists will make your gardening tasks less onerous and more enjoyable.
Beckly Crowley, a former cutting gardener, has compiled a guide to help you get your garden ready for the sun. ‘’This list is not exhaustive, it will assist you in staying on track’’, he stated, ‘’ June is the ideal month for adding colour blossoms, expanding your outside spaces and making outdoor entertaining easier by combing relaxing areas with eating and drinking places.’’
Here are some suggested gardening tasks in June from Beckly and Landscape urban design as follows:
NEW Markilux Pergola Stretch
Earlier in the year, we were delighted to introduce the new, award-winning Pergola Stretch to our diverse range of bespoke, high quality outdoor living products.
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Now we’d like to run through the greatest benefits and features of the Pergola Stretch, during the time of year where our clients begin to consider their upcoming home improvements for 2022.
New Vertical Blinds for Retractable Roof System
Pergola awning plus vertical awning from weinor
Reliable all-round protection
The very popular concept of the retractable pergola system is now one of the best selling outdoor living products from Samson. Providing exceptional levels of sun shade and rain protection on medium or large areas this product now has more to offer… Continue reading →
The Weinor Terrazza Pure – Coming Later in 2019
The Terrazza Pure, an exciting new 90° glass roof system from Weinor, will now be coming to the UK and Samson Awnings later this year.
A new free-standing roof system from Weinor, the Terrazza Pure is a brilliant sun and weather protection system from the innovators at Weinor. Usable as either a free standing or lean-to system, meaning it can either be constructed to attach onto an existing wall or structure, or be made to stand independently itself.
It has a cubic design, with special lighting and decorative strips that ensure this system looks fantastic wherever it is erected, and with a large range of features, it can be customised to suit whatever needs you may have.
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The Terrazza Pure is based upon the already existing Terrazza.
Weinor have took this model and converted it to a cubic design, allowing it to be a truly free standing system. The system uses a cubic design, whilst rainwater is drained via the guttering down the posts.
LED strips are available to provide lighting, available in up to 48 colours and three different types or white. The colours can even be dimmed or adjusted via the Weinor transmitter. The sides can be filled in too, with the options for either vertical blinds, glass sliding doors or glazing, enabling you to fully close off the system and convert it into an outdoor room.
The First Verano Garda Installation
As part of our Great British Glass Off offer, Verano’s fantastic Garda glass roof system has recently been installed for the first time by Samson Awnings.
An exceptional glass roof system, it can have either a glass or polycarbonate roof, allowing for different needs and budgets, and can also have an awning style fabric system installed either above or below the roof. Alongside this, lighting can be requested as either halogen or LED spotlights. It is also a modular system, allowing the sides to be filled in at a later date with glass elements such as wall panels and doors.
This particular Garda roof was fitted to a domestic property, and was erected so easily and unobtrusively that the customers wife actually missed the system being set up!
Finished in anthracite, this system blends perfectly with the colour of the bi-folding doors that are underneath. This system is fitted with 8.8mm glass, which offers superb vision combined with fantastic durability, with the added benefit over polycarbonate options of being much quieter in the rain.
For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Benefits of an Awning and Glass Room Combination
The Ulimate UK Weather Protection!
Awnings and glass rooms both have their advantages and disadvantages. Awnings are adaptable, yet unable to cope with heavier wind and snow. Glass rooms meanwhile are more fixed, however lack natural shading, merely rain and wind protection.
Perhaps this is why it has become an option with many glass rooms to have an awning attached. Often fixed to the roof of the glass room itself, the awning extends via runners and this adds stability to the awning itself. These can be placed either above or under the glass, with each having advantages. Outside shading is perfect for keeping the sun from heating up the glass, increasing the temperature, whilst inside shading prevents wind or heavy rain from becoming an issue.
The benefit of this means that not only can you shelter from the rain and wind, and even snow in the summer, but you can also provide shade from the summer sun. This transforms an already impressive glass room into a truly year round all weather system.
The benefits of this are obvious. When combined with sliding glass doors, you can create an area that can be entirely closed off, with a shaded roof, yet can also be completely opened up, with a glass roof and no walls.
Examples for suitable systems:
Weinor Terrazza
The Terrazza is a glass and aluminium roof structure, designed for us on a terrace or patio in any domestic or commercial environment.
The Terrazza can have shading added, with a product called the Sottezza, an under-mount anti-glare screen that blends in perfectly and shields the area underneath from the sun.
The Terrazza has a couple of different roof models and shapes, meaning that every need is catered for, and sides can be personalised to make them more stable or transparent.
An elegant and appealing design, the Terrazza has a number of different options to suit different needs, and can be fitted with lights to extend usability.
Weinor GlasOase
The Weinor GlasOase is designed to be the ultimate in roof protection. It has a high quality aluminium profile, and a roof that is similar to that of the Terrazza, but is designed from the ground up to be transformed into a glassroom.
Sides can be filled in with a variety of options, such as glass panels, sliding or folding glass doors and more, and the sides include minimal posts, offering a truly panoramic view of the surroundings with a possibility for full-surface glazing, with no restrictions to the view.
The GlasOase can also have both inside and outside shading, making it an incredibly versatile system. Alongside this, both LED lighting and infrared heating systems are available, both of which are energy efficient.
Verano Riva
The Verano Riva is a stylish and sturdy glass roof system, which when filled in at the sides uses exceptionally high-quality glass to create a fantastically clear veranda, which offers protection from all sorts of weather conditions, from sun shading, to winds and rain, and even light snow.
There is also the option for polycarbonate to be used, and whilst this is cheaper, it does make it much noisier in wet weather conditions. Alternatively, you can also fill the sides with zip screens as well as the standard glass partitions or sliding glass doors.
Similarly to the glasOase, the Riva has minimal posts, which allows for fantastic views, without losing any of the structural integrity. The Riva only needs two supports to span 6.5 metres, and does this with ease.
Both halogen and LED lights are available built into the structure, which can save up to 30% on energy costs, whilst shading is placed above the roof.
For more information on these options, please contact us.
New Lighting for the Markilux Pergola
The very popular weather protection system from Markilux now has 2 very striking lighting options to enhance to space underneath this superb retractable fabric roof system. The Pergola has been a great product to provide extra protection above what a normal retractable awning can provide.
The Pergola has support posts and a lean-to tracking guide system to take the awning in and out, supporting all the time from the sides as well as being tensioned front to back. The result is a large fabric cover system with extra tension on the fabric to provide strength against higher winds speeds and the option to protect against rainfall (when the pitch is set to 15 degrees or more), which many awnings cannot do.
The new lighting options for the Pergola are either adjustable spotlights on the cover tube sections, or a diffused LED light line in the entire length of the support tube. These lights come with a dimming option, which gives you supreme control over the light and atmosphere under the Pergola.
LED lights have a service life of around 20,000 hours, with 5W bulbs demanding very little power. As a result, this is a lighting option that will last for many, many years, whilst costing very little along the way.
Learn more about the Pergola here
Weinor Product Awards
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| In recent years one of our manufactures, Weinor have won numerous design prizes for the superb design of its patio products. The awards confirm that the products we offer are not only high quality in technical terms, but also set high standards from a visual perspective.
These weinor products have won prizes:
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Zenara The sleek and modern design gives it a stylish appearance and it sits seamlessly on the wall as it only requires two wall connections, even for the largest 6.5metre sizes
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Cassita II The Weinor Cassita II LED is structurally identical to the regular Cassita II patio awning except this is an awning with a built in lighting system
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Opal Design II The Weinor Opal Design II is the ultimate jewel for your home. Standing out among the crowd for their exceptional aesthetics, superior technology and striking looks, this awnings combines technology and appearance with long lasting quality.
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Livona
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Glasoase All year round protection with an almost frameless view of your garden- spend hours of enjoyment in your garden glass room and let a place filled with light and transparency work its magic on you.
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VertiTex VertiTex vertical blind offering translucent shade
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Plaza Pro
Our textile and extendable weather protection system for professional users goes by the name Weinor Plaza Pro
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