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Fabric 1

Shadeview extreme
Producer/Manufacturer: QCD Ltd.
Primary Use: Main Fabric

Please describe the project specifications

We had been doing a lot of work for a retirement community recently supplying outdoor blinds. However, we had one customer that wanted overhead shade. At that point, residents could only choose between a lourve roof or a wooden slat pergola. Neither of which were what the customer wanted and they spoke to us about a retractable shade on a roller. We submitted plans and drawings to the retirement village management, and after more than a month we finally got the go ahead to install this blind. HOWEVER, we could not penetrate the walls, roof or floor of the second floor balcony. So expanding on our previous experience installing blinds using brackets wrapping around the posts, we expanded the system to hold an overhead blind and its fixing points. All credit to our installation team who designed and installed this system without input from others in the company.
Customer at a retirement community within an apartment complex ordered an overhead retractable shade on his second floor deck.
But, the building management specified that we could not penetrate the walls, roof or floor. So we had to make a support frame that followed the walls around the four sides of the verandah, to hold the retractable awning as well as the blinds the customer had ordered. . We joined all the framing onsite to ensure that it was a perfect fit, but could not disturb the neighbours with the drop saw so we had to set it up down stairs. The installers got a good workout that day. Once this manufacturing day was completed, we welded up what we could in the factory and made the rest as a kitset and sent it off to the powder coaters.
We have since developed an adjustable bracket to cut down the site check time - where the installers were cutting and joining everything to the perfect size then getting them bent up at our fabricator, we checked them again to make sure a perfect fit, prior to final powder coating. The powder coating matches the building colour well so the final framework is very subtle.

What is unique or complex about the project?

Customer at a retirement community within an apartment complex ordered an overhead retractable shade on his second floor deck.
But, the building management specified that we could not penetrate the walls, roof or floor. So we had to make a support frame that followed the walls around the four sides of the verandah, to hold the retractable awning as well as the blinds the customer had ordered. . We joined all the framing onsite to ensure that it was a perfect fit, but could not disturb the neighbours with the drop saw so we had to set it up down stairs. The installers got a good workout that day. Once this manufacturing day was completed, we welded up what we could in the factory and made the rest as a kitset and sent it off to the powder coaters.
We have since developed an adjustable bracket to cut down the site check time - where the installers were cutting and joining everything to the perfect size then getting them bent up at our fabricator, we checked them again to make sure a perfect fit, prior to final powder coating.

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