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FREE STANDING SOLUTIONS
Sun shade and Rain Protection – Create the Perfect Outdoor Covered Area for Your Business and Customers – Free Standing Freedom for Positioning.
Free standing sun shade and weather protection solutions are now more varied than ever before with advances in materials and technology. Reasons for requiring a self supporting structure include an unsuitable building height to fix to, insufficient fixings on the building or simply because you want a new area creating away from the main building?
Samson Awnings provide bespoke commercial solutions with retractable fabric canopies, fixed glass and polycarbonate roof systems, and rotating louvre blades. All these are incorporated into what is often referred to as a ‘pergola’ but the reality of many structures is far more varied and they are nearly always manufactured from aluminium profiles, giving the best flexibility in design, strength and longevity.
A great outdoor covered space will create interest in your establishment and provide options for customers to be inside or outside most of the year round. Extra revenue, extra space, extra kudos for your establishment and probably the easiest way to create extra space, often with no planning requirements and expensive building works.
We have worked on many commercial projects since 2007 and these include sectors such as Hospitality, Education, Sports Facilities, Industrial Buildings, Public Spaces and Commercial Offices. Covered all year weather protection on building roof tops perhaps provides the best examples where wind ratings and general commercial specification and build are most important and necessary for:
- Expansion of your seating capacity with greater options throughout the year
- Increase in revenue with more customers staying longer
- Increase in revenue as you can use the outdoor areas for more months of the year
- Protection from harmful UV rays – great for children, elderly and vulnerable skin types
- Create themed and private areas for larger parties or private functions
- Great, healthier outdoor space for meetings and staff use
- Adapt with existing buildings for control of shading and general weather protection
Structures with Retractable or Rotating Louvre Roof Sections
Roof sections with full retractable fabric options in either standard awning fabrics or tougher vinyl triple layer fabrics which offer a stronger final protection when fully extended and in use. Rotating aluminium louvre blade systems offer great sun protection and control of air flow and light with options for a retractable louvre blade roof for maximum weather control.
Benefits and Features include:
* High quality aluminium bespoke framework systems in endless choice of high quality powdercoat colour finishes to suit existing colour schemes.
* Fast assembly and construction times reducing time required for disruption.
*Any sizes possible for length and depths up to around 14 metres as standard.
Larger sizes are possible with design limitations.
* Pitched or flat roof design options to suit
* Ideal for sun shading and open air in the warmer months
* All systems use electric operated retractable or rotating roof components for ease of control and auto operation in weather changes.
* Multiple LED lighting and heating options for any of the systems
* Multiple options for fixed or retractable side infill to create further weather protection or create a complete ‘outdoor room’
Retractable Pergola Awnings
The word ‘Pergola’ is perhaps now confused from its original meaning, but in this case it refers to an aluminium framework incorporating a retractable, super taught, fabric canopy cover.
We offer various aluminium pergola framework systems with retractable electric canopy covers built in, from a more basic and simpler pergola to a heavier duty, more complex system with built in rain guttering at the front and the ability to add sides alongside lighting and heating options.
Benefits and Features include:
* Fabric roof lets natural light through
* Large sizes possible with modular design to allow further options to further enclose one or more side and control the climate even more.
* Fully retractable roof for the sunnier months
* Structures are aesthetically pleasing
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Butterfly Awnings
The ‘butterfly awning’ is a term used to describe various options of a simple, but very strong aluminium goal post system with two or more self supporting awnings fixed retracting on either side to create cover. This cover presents in the style of butterfly wings..
It is a very popular free standing product for Samson Awnings due to the versatile nature of the free standing goal post system. Manufactured from a large profile aluminium goalpost arrangement, the supporting structure can either be bolted to a solid concrete pad in the ground or sit surface mounted using very large weight boxes which double up as seating or planters.
The largest single size for our Syncra system is 7m wide and fitted with two awnings, each at 4m projection you now have a covered space of 56 square metres. However, you can couple the system and line up for far larger area coverage if required. The awnings retract completely to leave a clean goalpost structure when not in use. This structure can be fitted with LED lighting and infra-red heating to provide lighting and warmth in the evenings and cooler months of the year.
The awnings used are specified depending on individual requirements and can be manual or electrically operated as required with varying angles for the fabric covers to suit the site.
Benefits and Features include:
* Fabric canopy lets natural light through when in use
* Massive coverage when open and minimal structure showing when closed
* Easy adjustable projection during the day and night time.
* With free standing weight boxes this system can be repositioned if required
Louvre Roof Bioclimatic Pergola
The louvre pergola concept exploded onto the UK market during the Covid pandemic period. Used extensively in Southern Europe, mainly for sun protection, we see some confusion in the UK as the requirement is more for protection from rainfall. Commercially this is very important to get right and avoid ongoing issues
Commercial specification bioclimatic pergolas will offer larger profiles all round, greater rainwater drainage capacity, rotating blades which rotate up to 170 degrees to give air flow and sun shine ingress in 2 directions and larger sizes and more colours to choose from.
All the systems we offer are bespoke sizes and always have electric operated aluminium blades. LED lighting and infra red heating systems are very popular for evening use.
Side infills are offered with sliding glass door options, vertical electric blinds and fixed and louvered aluminium walling.
Benefits and features include:
- Great for evening time use with LED lighting built in
- Control air flow and shade during the hotter months easily.
- Can be made into a free standing outdoor room with side infills
- Bespoke sizes and shapes can be manufactured.
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Glass Outdoor Rooms
Samson offer a wide range of various self-supporting structures which have a flat roof design and are capable of being a modular structure with many options to enclose further when and if required. Self-supporting and with various retractable roof options, these structures provide all year-round protection from sun, wind and rain when specified correctly. As an ‘outdoor room’ there cannot be 100% wind and rain ingress protection, but more than enough to deal with 99% of the weather conditions during a normal year.
Built in rainwater guttering ensures there are no waterfalls at any side, the system can direct rainwater down the supporting posts and out on the ground or join an existing drainage system.
Often specified with LED lighting and many different types of low cost running infra-red heaters, the ‘outdoor’ room principal has truly provided a great way for easier, high quality additional space on existing outdoor patios, gardens or roof terraces.
Benefits and Features include:
* Luxury outdoor space for any commercial venture
*Ultimate control of sun, wind and rain
*High levels of natural light levels (excluding louvre roof systems)
*Independent lighting and heating systems for extra comfort into the evenings and cooler months of the year.
Commercial Umbrellas
The main enemy of the parasol or umbrella in any commercial environment is wind…
Centre pole support parasols offer the best overall stability and Samson offer a comprehensive range of commercial parasol with high wind ratings and our most popular parasol, the Vortex, is tested to wind speeds over 100km/h. Perfect for leaving open pretty much most of the year round and making management simple in a commercial setting.
Benefits and Features include:
* Simple management with geared winding handle operation for larger parasols
* High wind speed ratings for exposed locations
* Size up to 7m x 8m in one parasol
* Multiple parasols can be joined with rain guttering sections to cover large areas
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Structures with Fixed Roof Sections
As the roof sections are either polycarbonate or glass the natural light levels are kept and the systems are perfect for rain protection all year round. It is possible to include retractable fabric blinds for partial or full sun protection for the hotter months.
* High quality aluminium and steel framework in choice of high quality powdercoat finishes
* Any size possible in the length and depths up to around 14 metres
* PItched and flat roof design options and models
* Ideal for rain protection and natural light levels kept high underneath
* Sun shade retractable blind options for warmer months.
* LED lighting and heating options to suit size and shape
* Side infill options to enclose some or all side and create and enclosed ‘outdoor room’
Aluminium Verandas and Canopies
Traditional sloping aluminium verandas and a wide choice of flat roof veranda designs now available. The polycarbonate and glass verandas are so often overlooked as a great option for commercial applications, especially if you consider they allow natural light levels to be maintained.
Commercial Car Ports
We can design and supply almost any size of commercial car port for multiple vehicle protection.
Free standing and with integrated rainwater guttering on the lower side of the sloping roof.
Direct the rainwater away from the area or into a specific drainage or soakaway system already in place.
LED lighting can be built in to light up the car ports at night time and additional back or side infills can be added to further enhance weather protection. We can even add electric or manual operated roller shutter doors to the front if required..
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