Custom Shade Sails Provide UV Protection and Shade from the Sun
Commercial 95 Custom Mesh Shade Sails have FREE SHIPPING and provide excellent protection from the sun and its harmful UV rays. They come in a variety of standard shapes, sizes, and colors which meet the needs of most home and business owners. Available shapes include squares, rectangles, equilateral triangles, and right angle triangles. The 20 beautiful color choices can be seen farther down on this page. Each sail comes with user-friendly instructions for installation.
Mesh shade sails are an innovative and aesthetically pleasing way to create shaded spaces outside of the home or business. At home, they allow you to cover your patio, swimming pool area, gardens, children’s play areas, cars and other vehicles, and virtually any outdoor area that you would like to be protected from the sun. Businesses find shade sails valuable for creating shade in courtyards, outdoor break areas, and open air restaurants. Shade sails can be mounted to practically any surface and are simple to install. Now you can create a shaded area anywhere around your home, yard, or business.
Why do Shade Sails have Curves in the sides?
The perimeter of each sail is designed with a curve (also referred to as a gore) inwards towards the center of the sail to control the fabric tension. Shade Sails have reinforced webbing around the perimeter and marine stainless steel d-rings or “Delta” rings at each corner. Years ago, people would hang up a tarp with straight sides and grommets in the corners over what they wanted to protect or to shade an area. The grommets in the corners of the tarp were attached and tensioned to the mounting points. The outside edges of the tarp would be tensioned tight, however the middle of the tarp would sag and flap in the wind. So curves were put in the edges of the perimeter and once the corners were pulled, that would attempt to straighten out the curves in the sides, but they could not because they were attached to the fabric in the center of the shade sail. This effect would in turn tighten up the fabric in the center of the shade sail. This eliminates the sagging or loose fabric like in the middle of the tarp with the grommets. When properly tensioned, the fabric will not wrinkle, sag, or flap in the wind.
When you supply us with the mounting point measurements, the shade sails are designed with a reduction of approximately 10 percent of your attachment point measurements (see example on right). This is done to allow enough space for the mounting hardware and to tension the sail. All final measurements will be approximate due to tolerances during the fabricating process.
Due to manufacturing tolerances and fabric stretch, finished shade sail dimensions may vary 1.5″ +/-.
Note: Due to the available Commercial 95 fabric widths, and depending on the size ordered, your shade sail may have seams.
Available Commercial 95 Fabric Colors
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| Available Webbing | Name | Description |
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Residential sail with 1-1/2 inch UV webbing | For residential use in sails up to about 325 square feet. 1-1/2 inch webbing is rated at an 1800 pound break strength.
Starting at $3.76 per square foot |
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Heavy residential/light commercial sail with 2 inch webbing | For commercial applications and larger residential use in sails from 325 to 500 square feet. 2 inch webbing is rated at a 5,500 pound break strength.
Starting at $4.40 per square foot |
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Light commercial sail with 1/8 inch steel cable reinforcement | For commercial and residential applications where a steel cable is required. For use in sails up to 325 square feet. 1/8 inch cable has a 400 pound work load strength and a 2,000 pound break strength.
Starting at $5.12 per square foot |
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Commercial sail with 1/4 inch steel cable reinforcement | For large commercial and residential applications where a steel cable is required.. For use in sails over 325 square feet. 1/4 inch cable has a 1,400 pound work load and a 6,000 pound break strength.
Starting at $5.86 per square foot |
Stephen W –
I ordered five large triangular shade sails, mounting hardware, and specified the Commercial 95 fabric. Each shade sail was irregular with slightly different measurements since my outdoor area has mounts in odd locations. I shopped around and found Mighty Covers’ prices to be very competitive. Because I saw good reviews for them (and frequent negative reviews with some of the other companies), I placed my order with them.
I scanned and emailed a diagram with my exact point-to-point measurements to Larry and he promptly sent an order confirmation with all the specifics. I reviewed and signed the order and emailed back to him.
The sails and hardware arrived in three shipments and I found them to be very well made, particularly the corner mounts and the edges. This allayed my fears that they would not hold up well over time.
The installation went quickly and they look terrific. After initial installation, I allowed the material to relax under full sun and medium tension and then tightened the turnbuckles on two subsequent days. The material is now tight and perfect.
One note on the hardware: I’ve not checked Home Depot but the turnbuckles I got from Mighty Covers is superior to the aluminum-bodied ones available at Lowes. Those can loosen with the daily wind vibration of the fabric and can come apart.
A final note on customer service: There was an issue with the fabric color on two of the sails that Larry quickly resolved for me. I find it rare these days to get such fast and courteous customer service. Mighty Covers is a top-notch company and I will definitely use them again.
Kate B. –
We love our shade sail. It keeps the hot Florida sun off our cars and eastern side of the house, as well as filtering out oak leaves that used to fall on the vehicles. Great support from staff at the company, too. Always picked up the phone when I had a question.
Chris L –
I would like to offer a testimonial regarding your fine shade sails. We have had ours up for about 6 years in the Colorado sun, snow and wind. We regularly see 40+ mph gust at our hillside lot (actually over 50mph this last week). These shades sails have performed flawlessly and still look like new.