white frame, red/cream stripey

Mrs Hodgeson, our toughest installation ever!

Through another of my contacts, Radiant Blinds, we were handed a job that had left them scratching their heads. How on earth could you install an awning on a 4th floor balcony in to a recess that was lead clad and with no visible way of fixing at all? That was the brief, and the solution came from my father, Eric, who not only has 50+ years experience of this industry but who also has the brain of an engineer and the hands of a master craftsman.

One carefully thought out meeting with the client, and an hour of even more carefully planned measuring and he came up with a side fixed bracket. The science behind it was that the forces exacted on the building by the awning would not pose any burden if the fixings were at a right angle to the force. Sparing you the boredom of going in to it any further, it worked!! The result was, and still is, a beautiful awning that does it's job to a tee.

The installation day was a challenge though, hoisting a 70kg awning up 40' between 4 of us was far more difficult than it sounds (as anyone who has ever hoisted anything by hand will testify). Adding the value of the item to it's weight seems to make it feel even heavier!!! Once you're 20' off the ground there's no turning back though and you just have to grin and bear it.

Thanks goes to Mrs Hodgeson who is, and always will be, a really charming and caring person.