Diy Retractable Awning Pergola

It uses outdoor fabric to create some shade and rain protection and is the easiest way to cover your pergola.

Diy retractable awning pergola.

Next measure the distance of the screw eyes from one to the other on your pergola and then place the drapery hooks at those measurements. These billowing shades easily slide on the cables they hang from so you can have shade when you want it and retract them when you want a little more sun. Large eye screws do the sliding and make easy work of extending and retracting the canopy. If you are never going to want sun on your patio then a diy stationary pergola canopy is probably the way to go.

Cut your fabric to size. I hemmed the edges as well. Hook the other end of the turnbuckle onto your screw eye and fasten the opposite end in a loop with wire clamps as shown above. With a retractable canopy the fabric is attached to support boards that slide along tensioned stainless steel cables called wire ropes.