The 'Fitz's' had a beautiful house, in a beautiful street, with tastes and class that I could only dream of having. The task here was not only to deliver on practicality but with a serious measure of creativity thrown in. To make matters slightly more difficult, the awning was to be a whopping 8m long!
The building was a timber clad structure with an internal felt damp-proof course that we simply couldn't puncture. This rendered using the solid frame out of the question. We hit upon the reasoning that, although the outside may well be too weak individually, collectively they held up the house. We decided to install the awning on to a strong 2" timber board and attached the board in as many places as possible along the building with short strong screws. It's not really as simple as it sounds and we had to provide additional strength, but I'm not giving away all my secrets to the masses! Let's just say that there's an art to screwing and I'm not being crude.
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