When the weather starts getting nicer outside, relax and enjoy the sun under the comfort and protection of a beautiful awning from Eastside Awning! We provide sun protection and patio covers in the Issaquah, Bothell, Woodinville and Sammamish areas.

There are a variety of benefits to adding an awning to your home. Some of these include:

Retractable awning in Sammamish

• Aesthetics
• Increased Living Space
• Sun Protection
• Reduced Air Conditioning Costs
• Added Value to Your Home

 The aesthetic appeal of an awning can enhance the curb appeal of your home. With a variety of colors and styles available, we can provide a customized awning to create a look that you love. An awning can also add value to your home if you choose to sell.

An awning can provide you and your family with a reprieve from the hot summer sun, and give your children and pets a cool place to play, protected from the sun’s harmful rays. In addition to keeping your family cool when they are outside, an awning can keep your home cooler inside by blocking the sun from shining through your windows and doors. This can also help you to save money on air conditioning costs.

The addition of an awning can increase your living space by providing you with an additional room protected from the sun and rain. Because an awning can shield you from the elements, there are a variety of ways that you can use your new space. Whether you are entertaining, spending time with the family, or enjoying some quiet time by yourself, an awning can create a private and peaceful area for you to enjoy.

There are so many reasons to add a beautiful and functional awning to your home, and our experts are just the people to help you! Whether you need answers to your questions, or would like to examine the options available to you, count on the experienced team at Eastside Awnings to meet your needs!

Here are some of the other benefits of Tucson Solar Screens:

1. Window screens provide gentle, filtered light to enter your home.
2. They block 87% to 92% of the sun’s radiation, but still leave you with your gorgeous view.
3. They reduce glare.
4. According to the Tuscon website, they also may reduce golf ball dangers.

For more information on Tucson Solar Screens or other retractable awning products, please give Eastside Awning a call.

So, it’s no real surprise that Seattle ranked dead last among 12 major U.S. cities in a study conducted by the Center for Sustainable Building Research. In fact, Seattle was significantly lower when it came to cooling energy usage than even the second-to-last city – Boston – by almost a 3:1 ratio.

The study found that for houses with equal window orientation on all four sides (without awnings), Seattle homes, on average, used 252 kWh of cooling energy in a year; houses with mostly western-facing windows used 358 kWh.

Phoenix, in comparison, used 7,400 – 8,100 kWh of cooling energy in a year.

Despite the fact Northwest residents don’t typically have air conditioning installed, we do rely on other cooling methods such as electricity guzzling fans. And even when we do, we tend to have those uncomfortably warm summer days where jumping in Lake Washington is often the only escape.

However, the study shows that there is a much more reliable way to reduce heat in your home and save tremendously on energy costs: installing awnings. For comparable houses with awnings installed, Seattle homes saw average cooling energy savings of 61% to 69%. That’s pretty impressive.

So next time you think about buying an additional fan that will blow that hot air from one corner of the room to the other, or installing an expensive, environmentally unfriendly air conditioning system, consider investing in awnings for your home. You may just discover that they have all kinds of benefits.

Retractable fabric awnings are installed to the exterior of your house, but unlike permanent frame awnings do not require any unsightly awning framework. Using a Simu or Somfy motor, they can be extended or withdrawn with ease depending on the season or time of day.

Retractable awnings have many benefits:

1. They keep your house cooler in the warm summer months, reducing the need for electricity guzzling fans or air conditioning.
2. The decrease in electricity use will greatly reduce your energy bill. A 2007 study conducted by the Center for Sustainable Building Research found that Seattle-area homes can save 60% of their annual power usage by installing awnings.
3. Retractable awnings can block 90% of the sun’s radiation, including harmful UV rays, while preserving your view.
4. Retractable awnings look great and add an extra level of sophistication to your home’s design.
5. Retractable awnings make it easy and reliable to entertain on your patio, limiting sunlight on hot days or keeping the rain, which inevitably will fall in the northwest, at bay.
6. Retractable awnings can be – yes – retracted when you want to enjoy the sun.

In a time of economic uncertainty and sustainability, retractable awnings are a logical investment to reduce costs, decrease your footprint on the environment and improve the look and atmosphere of your home.

Eastside Awning, located in Bellevue, WA and serving eastside communities such as Kirkland, Redmond and Issaquah, specializes in retractable awnings for your home or business. We have a full line of retractable awnings covered with Sunbrella fabric and will work closely with you to make sure your retractable awning is perfect for your home.

Here’s the window with the solar screen up, allowing full sunlight:

Here’s the solar screen partway down:

And here’s the Tucson solar screen fully down, keeping the room cool and saving on electricity costs.

Go here for more about Tucson solar screens – and give us a call if you have any questions about how they work or what they cost.