Shade Sails

Where Can Shade Sails Be Installed?

Shade sails are a fantastic covered solution for a wide variety of applications and environments, including:

Nurseries & Primary Schools

Shade sails are a perfect addition to any nursery or primary playground. Thanks to the UV protection properties of our high-strength fabric cloth, shade sails allow nursery children and primary school pupils to play outside and enjoy the fresh air while remaining safe from harmful exposure to the sun.

What’s more, our shade sails’ bright, eye-catching colours will go down a treat with young children while their robustness and durability mean they’re built to last, even with little ones running about!

Secondary Schools and Sixth Form Colleges

Shade sails serve many different purposes in secondary schools and sixth-form colleges. A popular choice for outdoor seating areas, shade sails give students a shaded and sheltered space to eat their lunch alfresco style — or to simply socialise and hang out with their friends while enjoying the fresh air.

This will do wonders for your students’ well-being which, in turn, will help to raise your school’s reputation.

Furthermore, instead of taking the costly route of extending your dining room, bespoke shade sails allow you to increase your seating capacity in a much more affordable (and aesthetically pleasing) way while keeping your students onsite and out of trouble during lunchtimes and break periods.

Colleges and Universities

With many colleges and universities across the UK benefiting from multi-million-pound developments over the last few decades, it’s important that you find a covered solution that complements your state-of-the-art campus without looking out of place.

By combining practicality with aesthetic beauty, sail shades allow you to provide your students with much-needed shade and shelter, whether it’s for studying, socialising, eating or meeting outdoors, while enhancing your campus in a way that captures the quality of your higher education courses.

Thanks to their structural solidity, high-strength materials and striking design, shade sails not only improve the experience of your current college or university students but are sure to impress future applicants upon their visit to your campus.

Parks and Public Spaces

When it comes to parks and public spaces, a covered area solution needs to be both fun and functional.

Thanks to their tensile UV-resistant fabric, shade sails provide much-needed shade for children, safeguarding them from the sun’s harmful UV rays as they play in the park.

They can also be used for outdoor seating or café areas to keep parents safe, dry and cool while they keep an eye on their children.

Our high-strength, high-quality materials mean our shade sails are built to withstand the rough and tumble of a children’s play area, as well as our unpredictable British weather!

Thanks to their vibrant shade sail designs and variety of colours and finishes, our shade sails add brightness and buoyancy to any park or public space.

Garden Centres

Shade and shelter are absolutely essential in any garden centre.

Covered solutions are needed to protect not just your customers, but your products, too — especially wooden, steel or metal items that can degrade when exposed to the elements for too long.

Patio sails can do just this, providing shade and shelter from whatever our unpredictable British weather throws at us while enhancing your entire garden centre site.

Beyond their purely practical benefits, our range of stylish shade sails can improve your garden centre’s hospitality provision, especially when it comes to your onsite café or refreshment area, giving your customers a place to sit down, relax and enjoy a hot cuppa and a tasty treat.

Public Attractions

Between outdoor eating areas, viewing areas and queuing areas, there is a high demand for covered spaces at any public attraction, whether it’s a theme park, a zoo or a museum. 

Shade sails provide shade and adequate protection for all of these applications, ensuring your visitors remain dry, safe and protected so they can enjoy their day to the fullest.

A sleek, stylish and striking shade sail can be an attraction on its own, so installing one at your entrance or around your exterior can help to drive more people through your doors.

Pubs, Restaurants and Hotels

Whether you run a pub, a restaurant or a hotel, comfort is something that will always rank high for customers when deciding where to spend their money — and shade sails provide just this.

From creating a cool, shaded and UV-resistant area in the hotter months to providing a dry, sheltered and wind-protected space in the wetter ones, shade sails offer complete protection for outdoor areas in the hospitality industry, whether these areas for eating, drinking, smoking or waiting.

Shade sails can not only improve the experience for your existing customers, but they can help you to attract new customers, too.

Thanks to their cool design and brilliant colour combinations, shade sails are guaranteed to catch the eye, enhance your establishment and help you to entice more paying customers through your doors.

What are the Benefits of Shade Sails?

From 98% UV protection and thorough protection from the elements to easy and affordable installation, there are many reasons to invest in shade sails.

Weather and UV protection

With shade cloth or waterproof fabric options, rain or shine, you can rest assured that a bespoke shade sail from A&S Landscape can protect you from all the elements.

While most of us can agree that getting plenty of sunshine is important — not only for our tans but for our health and happiness — too much exposure to direct sunlight can increase your risk of skin cancer. That’s why UV protection is so important, especially for young children who are most likely unaware of this danger.

At A&S Landscape, our shade sails UK range uses high-quality shade cloth that offers 90-98% UV protection along with a multi-year UV degradation warranty.

Whereas in the past shade fabric would often suffer from UV degradation, we add UV inhibitors to our shade cloth during the manufacturing process, ensuring it provides safe protection from the sun for many years to come.

As an alternative to shade cloth, we use PVC fabric, which is an excellent waterproof option that boasts an even longer lifespan.

Sleek and stylish

Our sail cloth shade canopies aren’t just functional and durable, but they add a bold, elegant and dynamic focal point to your premises.

Between the sleek and striking appearance of the Maxima Sail™’, the smart and timeless design of the Maxima Umbrella™, the snug yet sturdy feel of the Maxima Tepee™ , and the trendy and breezy look of the Maxima StarSail™, our range of high-quality shade sails will enhance any space, whether it’s a playground, a college or university campus, or a pub or restaurant.

Affordable and cost-effective

Shade sails offer high-quality shelter without the high costs. Thanks to their minimalistic designs, they’re reasonably priced and offer great value for money while still delivering all the benefits you want from a covered area solution, including weather protection, UV resistance and a long lifespan.

When used to provide cover for outdoor eating areas, shade sails are a far more affordable and cost-effective way of increasing your seating capacity without having to extend your dining room, which can be a disruptive, time-consuming, and expensive endeavour.

Easy to install

No matter how large or small your sun shade sail canopy is, what your chosen configuration looks like or the optional extras you want, shade sails are a breeze to install.

That’s not to say anybody can do it; correct installation of a shade sail requires carefully plotted and highly secure mounting points, as well as the right shade sail foundation.

This is to ensure that there is adequate tension applied to the sail so that it will maintain its shape and remain functional in all conditions.

With our experienced team of covered area experts handling the entire process from conception to completion, we’ll carry out your installation with maximum efficiency while causing minimum interruption to your normal working day.