Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Sun Canopy & Outdoor Shade Covers

While our Sun Canopies are our most widely used form shade cover, Easy Rack sells a wide range of other standard and custom shade covers. For commercial applications, Easy Rack sells everything from temporary and economical shade structures to Modular Shade Structures that are designed with permanent durability in mind.

Other shade covers can be custom configured to the specific needs of each client. The key to successful customization lies with planning with climate demands in mind. When built to order in this manner, Easy Rack patio shade covers will perform beautifully over extended periods of time.

Just a few of our options include, but are not limited, to the following:

Modular Shade Covers
These fabric shade structures are manufactured to function as attractive, inexpensive solutions for seasonal or temporary use. Modular systems are characterized by an exceptionally sturdy design featuring shade factor fabric. They are very easy to assemble and come in a variety of fabric colors. Options include water proof tops and powder coated frames. Braces and base plates for securing frames come with every unit.

Triangular Truss Shade Covers
These broad-span structures are designed to give you the maximum possible amount of open space beneath them. They are a highly cost effective means of shading large areas.

The Triangular Truss System is made to be durable and easy to install. Its panel shades are attached to its aluminum trusses through springs that allow for easy installation and removal. Aluminum components and galvanized columns give you years of maintenance free application. Base plates are made of steel plates that give extra support and strength to the aluminum frame.

The custom shade structures, made of 63 percent shade factor fabric, attach to trusses by means of stainless steel springs.

Warren Truss Shade Cover System
The Warren Truss Shade System allows for increased column spacing over the conventional pipe frame systems and provides an economical alternative for shading larger expanses. The entire Warren system is very flexible and can be designed to meet applicable building codes or modified to suit your specific needs.

The frame consists of 8” high aluminum style “Warren” trusses, galvanized steel columns, and steel base plates. Fabric is 63 percent shade factor reinforced along the edges with 2 inch webbing. Shade panels attach to the structure through 1/8” black/white diamond braid polyester lacing cord.

Enduro Patio Cover
Enduro Patio Shade Covers provide great protection for any residential patio. Their colored shade cloth makes them a very attractive, decorative addition to any backyard. Enjoy your patio all through the summer months as it is kept cooler and shielded from UV rays.

This simple shade cloth is easy to install. The frame features corner braces and base plates that provide for stability. The canopy has an 80 percent shade factor that is fire retardant and UV resistant. Shade panels attach to the frame through bungee ball straps. Optional plant hanger bars can also be ordered from Easy Rack.

Easy Rack also carries a wide variety of commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, new and used gondola shelving, used pallet racks, and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

Contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Washington DC, Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, Las Vegas, Nevada. Portland, Oregon, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tucson, Arizona, Long Beach, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Fresno, California, Sacramento, CA, Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX, Jersey City, NJ Newark, New Jersey.

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Friday, January 8, 2010

Sun Shades & Shade Structures

Are sun sails cheaper than other types of shade structure?
Yes. In terms of cost per square foot, they are the most cost effective shade solution on the market.

Are sun sails as stable as other shade structures?
Yes. You don’t want your shade structure blowing in the time or collapsing in the middle. The tension force of the fabric keeps the sail tight across its surface. The perimeter of the structure curves slightly toward the center to help maintain tension. Meanwhile, the edges are reinforced by webbing that goes all around the perimeter of the shade. Stainless steel rings fasten to this webbing to evenly distribute tension all around. When mounted properly, fabric sail structures retain their shape in the wind without sagging, flapping, or wrinkling.

What are the benefits and features of sun sails?
There are benefits that directly relate to human health in the form of protection against skin cancer. Other benefits pertain to protection against property loss caused by heat buildup. Still others, such as comfort and peace of mind, are more less tangible, although by no means less important.

Just a few benefits of playground shade structures include:
  • Protect human and animal skin from the ultraviolet rays of the sun
  • Protects humans, pets and assets from heat damage
  • Sun sails can double function as protection against hail
  • Highly decorative sun shades create attraction factor for areas of interest
  • Can be mounted where full steel frame shade structures cannot be erected
  • Much more affordable than many other shade products
  • Can be used by homes, municipalities, schools, and businesses
  • Residential sun sail covers are easy to install
  • Designed to be maintenance free
  • Holds shape better than canvas and is resistant to mold and mildew
Where are sun sails used?
Sun sails are beautiful patio canopies and practical for a wide range of applications such as residences, swimming pools, auto dealers who want to highlight a special area of their store, parks, museums, etc. They can be adapted to awkward or unevenly shaped outdoor areas more readily than awnings, canopies or shade structures can be.

Companies can use sun sails as well to shelter employees who like to go outside on break. Parks use them to shelter picnic areas. Water parks use fabric sun shade structures as decorative covers over swimming pools. Many stores have mounted them over their entrances to attract and shelter customers with a flair of decorative protection. Parking areas can also be protected with sun sails so patrons do not have to touch hot steering wheels when they get into their vehicles to drive home.
Do you have many varieties of sun sails?
Oh yes. Call Easy Rack to see what color, size, and fabric material will work best for your home, business, school, or Municipal Park now.

Easy Rack also carries a wide variety of commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, new and used gondola shelving, used pallet racks, and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

Contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Washington DC, Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, Las Vegas, Nevada. Portland, Oregon, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tucson, Arizona, Long Beach, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Fresno, California, Sacramento, CA, Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX, Jersey City, NJ Newark, New Jersey.

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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Patio Shade Structures & Patio Canopy

Why does a playground need a shade?
About 80 percent of a person's total lifetime UV exposure occurs in the first 18 years of life. Without some type of playground shade structure, a child is going to get sunburned. It only takes 10 minutes for this to happen. One blistering sunburn, prior to 18 years of age, can double the risk of a child eventually developing melanoma.

Without consistent playground shade covers, approximately 25 percent of all children who are under 6 years of age, and approximately half of all children who are under 13 years of age, will be sunburned to the point of blistering. Tragically, these statistics currently result in approximately 1 out of every 5 children in the United States growing up to suffer from (and often die) from some form of skin cancer later in life.

We have heavy cloud cover in our part of the country. Don’t the clouds block UV light?
No. 80 percent of UV radiation still reaches the ground. Keep in mind that only a fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum is visible to the human eye. Even on what appears to be a very dark day, the sun is still there, above the clouds, and UV light is still coming down on us. Patio shade structures prevent this kind of UV exposure.

What benefits do Easy Rack playground shades offer schools and parks?
Outdoor play areas are cooled down and protected from up to 95 percent of the sun’s ultraviolet light. This so drastically improves safety for school children that it directly contributes to the educational cycle, because with fewer painful sunburns, there will be fewer trips to the nurse for treatment. Also, severe cases of sunburn that often result in kids being sent home will be prevented.

Won’t these structures make our playground look odd or unattractive?
No. Easy Rack playground fabric sun shade structures are designed with aesthetics in mind. We can provide you with any number of styles, sizes, and colors that will compliment your school or park facility.

Can any other type of business use these structures?
Yes. Hospitals and outdoor athletic facilities also use playground sun canopies. Many hospital patients actually need to go outside for fresh air, provided they are stable enough to walk and travel to and from their beds with doctor supervision.

However, these people DO NOT need to get sunburned on top of whatever else put them in the hospital! Consider a hip n ridge shade structure to prevent this from happening.

Athletic facilities rely on playground shades to protect players and fans. The decorative nature of their design contributes the sense of festivity and ball in play.

Do you have playground shades for specialty parks and other public areas?
Easy Rack offers both standard and custom designs to specifically accommodate a number of very special activity centers. Municipalities use our playground double shade sail covers to protect their amusement parks, water parks, and zoos. Any area around water will have a higher incidence of sunburn due to water’s reflective capability, and zoo animals suffer just as much as humans do because UV radiation breaks down ANY type of animal cell—not just human.

What features, advantages, and benefits do playground shades by Easy Rack offer
  • Maintenance free
  • Reliable, permanent structures
  • All sorts of colors and sizes to choose from
  • Powder coated steel frames
  • Made in the USA
  • Comprehensive warranty
  • Able to withstand winds of up to 80 mph
Easy Rack carries a wide variety of commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, new and used gondola shelving, used pallet racks, and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

Contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720. Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Washington DC, Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, Las Vegas, Nevada. Portland, Oregon, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tucson, Arizona, Long Beach, California, Atlanta, Georgia, Fresno, California, Sacramento, CA, Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX, Jersey City, NJ Newark, New Jersey.

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Monday, October 12, 2009

Outdoor Fabric Shade Canopy Structures

Easy Rack custom shade covers reduce temperature beneath the canopy structure and keep seats cool and comfortable for attendees, visitors, patrons, and sports fans. These amazing sun shields are made to be strong and durable, and they require very little maintenance to last for many years.

Even better, Easy Rack fabric shade structures are also attractive additions to any municipal, academic, commercial, or residential environment. Many different colors are available that can be matched to the compliment the specific colors of outdoor architecture.

The importance of protecting people from direct sunlight cannot be understated. Did you know that one sunburn prior to the age of 13 doubles a human’s risk of melanoma? Did you know that 80 percent of all UV exposure a person receives occurs prior to the age of 18?

Studies indicate that at present trends, 1 in 5 of children playing outside today will grow up to develop skin cancer as adults. Whereas in 1930, the chances of getting skin cancer were 1 out of 1500, today they are only 1 out of 75. Now is the time to act, because recent studies have shown that melanoma rates have doubled over the past 20 years.

But something can be done. Fabric shade structures from Easy Rack play a critical role in reducing skin cancer rates by reducing UV exposure up to 95%.

The fabric used in Easy Rack shade structures is superb in many respects. It features a strong weave that gives it a durable texture that is resistant to rough weather. Special treatments make it resistant to ultraviolet light, and many sun canopies are also fire retardant as well.

Outdoor fabric structures are used to create all sorts of exterior shade canopies. In corporate environments, municipal court areas, city halls, and schools, they can be stretched over sidewalks and patio areas to create awnings. Larger canopies can be stretched over entire open areas. In places where skylights are used, these sun protection screens can also be used as skylight cover to prevent harmful UV radiation from finding its way indoors.

Fabric shade structures have a widely diverse range of applications. They can be used to provide shade for plazas in downtown areas where people go for lunch breaks, outdoor events, and conversation. Fabric structures can shield they eyes of players on tennis courts so they won’t miss a crucial shot at the worst possible time.

Other athletic facilities use them as well to protect players in a number of sports, and to keep bleacher areas free of direct sunlight so fans can better see both the players and the ball in play.

Fabric structures can be stretched over parking lots to prevent car interiors and steering wheel columns from becoming hot to the touch. Car lots often use these sun canopies to keep new models ready for a comfortable test drive.

Companies often stretch large canopies over walkways between buildings so that executives in suits can walk comfortably in the shade without the heat ruining dry cleaning and makeup. Public parks normally have a sun canopy over pavilions so family reunions, outdoor concerts, and special events can be held in the comfortable shade.

Another very important place to stretch a fabric shade structure is a public swimming pool or water park. Water makes the skin very vulnerable to UV radiation. Keeping children and adults sheltered from direct sunlight while they swim is not only good medical sense, it is good public service.

If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Easy Rack stocks a vast inventory of commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, work platform forklift attachments and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

Our outdoor athletic shade design facility is located in Houston, Texas with stocking vendors located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Memphis, Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland, Charlotte, N.C, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seattle, Washington, Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky, Irving, Texas, Amarillo, TX, Dallas, TX, Brownsville, Texas, Grand Prairie, TX, Pasadena, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas., El Paso, Texas, New York NY, Miami Fl, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, San Francisco, Ca, Phoenix, AZ, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL .

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Shade Structures & Outdoor Fabric Canopies

Shade structures from Easy Rack reduce temperature beneath the canopy structure and keep seats cool and comfortable for attendees, visitors, patrons, and sports fans. These amazing sun shields are made to be strong and durable, and they require very little maintenance to last for many years.

Even better, they are also attractive additions to any municipal, academic, commercial, or residential environment. Many different colors are available that can be matched to the compliment the specific colors of outdoor architecture.

The importance of protecting people from direct sunlight cannot be understated. Did you know that one sunburn prior to the age of 13 doubles a human’s risk of melanoma? Did you know that 80 percent of all UV exposure a person receives occurs prior to the age of 18?

Studies indicate that at present trends, 1 in 5 of children playing outside today will grow up to develop skin cancer as adults. Whereas in 1930, the chances of getting skin cancer were 1 out of 1500, today they are only 1 out of 75. Now is the time to act, because recent studies have shown that melanoma rates have doubled over the past 20 years.

But something can be done. Fabric shade structures play a critical role in reducing skin cancer rates by reducing UV exposure up to 95%.

The fabric used in Easy Rack shade structures is superb in many respects. It features a strong weave that gives it a durable texture that is resistant to rough weather. Special treatments make it resistant to ultraviolet light, and many sun canopies are also fire retardant as well.

Fabric structures are used to create all sorts of outdoor shade structures. In corporate environments, municipal court areas, city halls, and schools, they can be stretched over sidewalks and patio areas to create awnings. Larger canopies can be stretched over entire open areas. In places where skylights are used, these sun protection screens can also be used as skylight cover to prevent harmful UV radiation from finding its way indoors.

Fabric shade structures have a widely diverse range of applications. They can be used to provide shade for plazas in downtown areas where people go for lunch breaks, outdoor events, and conversation. Fabric structures can shield they eyes of players on tennis courts so they won’t miss a crucial shot at the worst possible time.

Other athletic facilities such as ball parks use them as well to protect players in a number of sports, and to keep bleacher areas free of direct sunlight so fans can better see both the players and the ball in play.

Fabric structures can be stretched over parking lots to prevent car interiors and steering wheel columns from becoming hot to the touch. Car lots often use these sun canopies to keep new models ready for a comfortable test drive.

Companies often stretch large canopies over walkways between buildings so that executives in suits can walk comfortably in the shade without the heat ruining dry cleaning and makeup. Public parks normally have a sun canopy over pavilions so family reunions, outdoor concerts, and special events can be held in the comfortable shade.

Another very important place to stretch a fabric shade structure is a public swimming pool or water park. Water makes the skin very vulnerable to UV radiation. Keeping children and adults sheltered from direct sunlight while they swim is not only good medical sense, it is good public service.

Easy Rack stocks a vast inventory of commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, work platform forklift attachments and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide.

If you can not find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Our outdoor shade design facility is located in Houston, Texas with stocking vendors located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including Memphis, Tennessee, Baltimore, Maryland, Charlotte, N.C, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Seattle, Washington, Boston, Massachusetts, Denver, Colorado, Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky, Irving, Texas, Amarillo, TX, Dallas, TX, Brownsville, Texas, Grand Prairie, TX, Pasadena, Texas, Fort Worth, Texas., El Paso, Texas, New York NY, Miami Fl, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, San Francisco, Ca, Phoenix, AZ, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL .

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