How to Make a 4-Sided Shade Sail
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Shade sails can transform any outdoor living area into a stylish and comfortable seating area as they help to provide shade and a pleasing ambience that helps to define what may have felt like a rather disjointed or unconnected patio or deck. This tutorial video will show you all the steps required to sew up your own 4-sided sail shade and install it. Visit the Sailrite website and use our fantastic fabric calculator to help you figure what you will need for your particular sail shade in both fabric and hardware. Click for Fabric Calculator: www.fabric-calculator.com/sai...
HOW TO MAKE A 4-SIDED SHADE SAIL CHAPTERS:
Planning & Attachment Points - 01:00 min
Measuring & Calculating for Sail Shade - 02:05 min
Installing Fascia Brackets (if required) - 11:03 min
Attaching Hardware to Posts - 20:55 min
Adding Additional Panels of Fabric (if required) - 22:37 min
Lofting Shade Fabric - 33:27 min
Creating Hollow on Sides - 38:21 min
Hemming Sides - 44:37 min
Reinforcing Sides with Webbing - 49:23 min
Adding Corner Patches - 56:25 min
Sewing Hem & Webbing on Sides - 1:01:21 min
Sewing Corner Rings - 1:05:50 min
Installing Shade Sail - 1:18:21 min
Tensioning Shade Sail - 1:27:46 min
Materials List - 1:31:59 min
MATERIALS LIST:
Polyfab Fascia Bracket (2 Way) - www.sailrite.com/Polyfab-Fasc...
Eye Bolt With Shoulder, Nut & Washer (SS) - www.sailrite.com/search?keywo...
Parasol™ 118” wide or Polytex® 150“ wide Shade Fabric - www.sailrite.com/Fabrics/Outd...
Seamstick 3/8" Basting Tape for Canvas - www.sailrite.com/Seamstick-3-...
V-92 Polyester Thread or Sailrite® PTFE Lifetime Thread - www.sailrite.com/Notions/Thre...
Polyfab™ Webbing Polyester 2" from Sailrite - www.sailrite.com/Notions/Webb...
Quick Link Triangle 5/16" (8mm)(Stainless Steel) - www.sailrite.com/Hardware-Mat...
Round Stainless Steel Ring 2" - www.sailrite.com/Round-Stainl...
Polyfab Pro™ Dee Shackle With Bolt 5/16" (8mm)(SS) - www.sailrite.com/Polyfab-Pro-...
5/16” Coil Chain Zinc Plated - sold at hardware stores
Turnbuckle Hook & Hook 5/16" (8mm)(SS) - www.sailrite.com/search?keywo...
OR www.sailrite.com/search?keywo...
TOOLS LIST:
Triangle Tailor's Chalk - White - www.sailrite.com/Triangle-Tai...
Gingher® Scissors Right Hand Lightweight 8" - www.sailrite.com/Gingher-Scis...
Clear Acrylic Ruler 6" x 24" - www.sailrite.com/Clear-Acryli...
Sailrite® Canvas Patterning Ruler - www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Can...
Scribe All Water Soluble White Marking Pencil www.sailrite.com/Scribe-All-W...
Sailrite® Edge Hotknife Package (110V) - www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Edg...
Sailrite® Ultrafeed® LS‑1 BASIC Walking Foot Sewing Machine - www.sailrite.com/Sailrite-Ult...
Deluxe 5 1/2" Magnetic Sewing Guide - www.sailrite.com/Deluxe-5-1-2...
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These guys have it figured out. I watched this video and bought their hardware and Im talkin 100% perfection on my install. 10 thumbs up !
The stacked washers is a good method. Your methodical instructions are clear and easy to follow. Thank you.
Great job! Always learn watching you guys. Thank you
Five thumbs up for meticulous work (and manly bolt cutting) 🙂
Firstly great videos, I’m looking at making a few things around here and came across you by way of research for a walking foot sewing machine for work on a couple of shade sails and my boat rebuild. Couple of pointers I’ve noticed the professionals do here with sails, they don’t use chain or turnbuckles, they use 5mm stainless wire with crimp sleeves. This is cheaper and looks so much cleaner then chains and turnbuckles. They pull it tight with a sailing rope pulley and measure the gap, then make the wire rope to suit, the beauty these days is the fabrics barely stretch anymore, so once tight they stay tight. This also allows them to not subtract the length of chain and turnbuckles from the sail, so the sail can be bigger and full out the area better. Other thing they do is drop the height of one anchor to put a twist in the sail, this stops it flapping up and down in the wind. What I’m trying to find is how to calculate the measurements for a sail that has five/six or more anchor points, I’ve got a long area between two building (40’x12’) that I’m trying to get as much cover as possible, I’ve seen a few sails where they anchor it at 3 points along one side to keep it tucked tight against the building (which is what I’m looking for). Any ideas or links to more helpful sites would be greatly appreciated. PS, you have already sold me on going with the LSZ1 bundle machine, get to use it in both world, at home or at sea.
Great video. Thank you from down under.
This video was very well put together! Very detailed and organized and the camera positioning was perfect so you could view everything. It’s too bad that your company doesn’t make these shade sails for resellers. I do home-improvement work and would love to be able to find somebody who can make these custom shade sails for me for my customers. If you know any companies that purchase your material who I could contact who would be open to doing that type of work, please let me know. You can let me know who to contact at your company and we can go over those companies over the phone, thank you for whatever you can make happen.
Did you ever get any feedback about having these shades made? im interested in making them. I have the equipment, and plan on miking such things for a living. cheers!!
@@Jukithesuzuki I was actually able to reach out to a company and because I already have an LLC I was able to become a wholesaler and this one company that allowed me to buy the product wholesale I was able to install. If you’re interested please reach out to me on my contact page and email me. I look forward to your reply soon
Great video, it’s made me relaxed. I understood all my mistakes. Thanks again 🙏👍
They say knowledge is power, but relaxation is the key to success! I'm glad you found the video helpful and that it put you in a relaxed state of mind. Keep sewing!
having fun with the drone :)
What a fantastic, thorough video.
Thanks!!!
Good job
Consider having a metal fabricator weld some mounting flanges at the correct angle to a tube to keep the posts spread apart. The hammock tension plus the sail shade tension is enough to pull the posts inward. They are soft wood. Being able to hang plants over the hammock will look nice and provide a little extra shade.
im going to do my first 4 corner shade sailnet tommorow .......wish me luck and success.....capetown SA.
Great share! We love these type of videos!
Glad you enjoyed!
Just are quick question why was the Cleat i.e Caribou nut not re tighten before you started adding tension, I noted one was still undone before its was getting load added
@ 1:29:42, when do you plan on closing the quick link barrel nut? It's best to do that before the link gets distorted from the pressure....
Good point. The quick link barrel nut should have been threaded before we tensioned the sail shade.
We have a 3 sided sun shade and used 3 metal fence posts and I cemented each pole into a bucket with a 6olb bag of cement. The buckets are coming down with the wind.
INSTALLING POSTS:
a) We recommend the use of 4 inch, schedule 40 steel pipe or 6 x 6 inch wood intended for outdoors use. Obtaining independent advice from a builder is recommended.
b) Posts should slope away from the center of the sail at an angle of about 5 to 10 degrees.
c) A conservative guide to burying the posts would be one third in the ground and two thirds above ground. This will vary depending on how many sails are attached to the post, soil conditions, size of the sails, etc. Posts are usually embedded in a concrete footing, 3 ft. to 6 ft. deep and 1 ft. to 1.5 ft. in diameter.
d) The use of a guy wire to help support posts where two or more sails are attached is recommended, especially for a 6 x 6 inch wood post.
e) Always call local authorities before you dig.
can i hire this guy
Wait. So we have to cut the fabric ourselves or does Sailrite do it for us?
We do not cut or sew the fabric. We are a supply company for the DIY market.
How did you install the posts?
INSTALLING POSTS:
a) We recommend the use of 4 inch, schedule 40 steel pipe or 6 x 6 inch wood intended for outdoors use. Obtaining independent advice from a builder is recommended.
b) Posts should slope away from the center of the sail at an angle of about 5 to 10 degrees.
c) A conservative guide to burying the posts would be one third in the ground and two thirds above ground. This will vary depending on how many sails are attached to the post, soil conditions, size of the sails, etc. Posts are usually embedded in a concrete footing, 3 ft. to 6 ft. deep and 1 ft. to 1.5 ft. in diameter.
d) The use of a guy wire to help support posts where two or more sails are attached is recommended, especially for a 6 x 6 inch wood post.
e) Always call local authorities before you dig.
How do you know it won't pool water?
It's a mesh. Very low water resistance. Keeping it tight and angled will help direct the water off it but it won't pool water. It will leak through. That fabric is meant for shade and cutting down on wind, not waterproofness.
Good stuff! Is is a shade sail or sail shade?
It is called both a Shade Sail and a Sail Shade.
How did you measure the 4x4 to be 10Degree angle
It was a 6 x 6 Post. I usually use this calculator to find the degree of my post: www.blocklayer.com/riserun.aspx
@@SailriteDIY thank you sir
Nobody has a laser measurement tool
Ask your local realtor to loan you his.
Why make curved hallow s?
Shade sails are made with what we call "hollow" on an edge to help support the sides and middle of the shade sail. This is an inward curvature of about 7% on each edge of the shade. Without the hollow the sides would flap in the wind and the center of the sail will sag greatly.
Sail construction starts around 23 minutes in
Just dont understand why to use the small pieces of chain...
It would look a cleaner work without chains and only with turnbuckles
Well done video, but you lost me at sewing machine!
4 mins in........holly shit this video is 1:30 wtf did i just buy.....i didnt think it take me 1.5 to install the whole thing........if the vid is this long this must b like a 4 day project.....
If you don't want a multiple day project don't make things from scratch. Plenty of pre-made ones, at a price.
The narrator even has the installer saying "say-right" instead of "Sailrite". Gawd that drives me nuts.
We'll make sure to steer clear of any say-wrongs in our next video!
hahaha, I wouldn't attach a sun shade sail to a house... the worst way of installing it... he should have used 4x4 posts instead.
We reinforced the roof rafters with a Polyfab Pro™ Fascia Bracket (2 Way)
SKU: 122017 www.sailrite.com/Polyfab-Fascia-Bracket-2-Way
@@SailriteDIY oh ok...make sense
Yet another 'how to install a sail shade' without anything about digging / concreting / the posts. Otherwise a great video.
INSTALLING POSTS:
a) We recommend the use of 4 inch, schedule 40 steel pipe or 6 x 6 inch wood intended for outdoors use. Obtaining independent advice from a builder is recommended.
b) Posts should slope away from the center of the sail at an angle of about 5 to 10 degrees.
c) A conservative guide to burying the posts would be one third in the ground and two thirds above ground. This will vary depending on how many sails are attached to the post, soil conditions, size of the sails, etc. Posts are usually embedded in a concrete footing, 3 ft. to 6 ft. deep and 1 ft. to 1.5 ft. in diameter.
d) The use of a guy wire to help support posts where two or more sails are attached is recommended, especially for a 6 x 6 inch wood post.
e) Always call local authorities before you dig.
Watch Sailrite’s video about their 3 sided shades, they show more detail about posts and attachment.
Well this is more of a "how to make a sail shade from scratch" video.