Folding Arm Awning
Extend your living space and outdoor area with a state-of-the-art folding-arm awning, custom-measured, fabricated and installed across Canberra and the ACT by Chadwick Designs. We bring together the best of Australian manufacturing and the world’s finest innovation, engineered and made in Germany by Markilux — one of the most respected awning brands in the world.
- Size
Minimum: 2.5m width - 1.5m projection
Maximum: 14m width - 4m projection- Warranty
5-year installation warranty
5-year manufacturer's warranty
10-year fabric warranty- Starting Price
$6000
- Made In
German-made Markilux and Australian-made ranges
— High-grade aluminium and stainless-steel components
— Wall or ceiling mount, or fitted above the roofline on custom-engineered brackets
— Awning pitch adjustable between 0 and 40 degrees
— Optional motorised retractable valance, up to 1.6m drop
— Wind rated to Beaufort 6 (operates in winds up to ~50 km/h)
— 250+ fabric choices
— 4–8 week turnaround, depending on the awning
Somfy is the world leader in window-furnishing automation, bringing comfort and convenient control at the push of a button.
— Motorisation — operate your awning by remote, app or wall switch.
— Sunis sun sensor — an outdoor sensor that adjusts your awning based on the level of sunlight, helping control the sun entering your home.
— Ondeis rain sensor — retracts your awning or sunroof out of harm’s way as soon as rain is detected.
— Eolis 3D WireFree wind sensor — an outdoor sensor that monitors the strength of wind gusts and retracts your awning to safety before the wind is strong enough to cause damage.
— Telis 6 Chronis RTS timer — control up to six separate zones of your home, each on its own automatic schedule. Set your awnings to lower against the afternoon sun while you’re out, or open the house to light every morning.
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Chadwick Designs — Canberra’s original Markilux showroom, with over 10 years’ experience in premium German-made Markilux awnings, pergolas and outdoor blinds.
Where can awnings be installed?
Almost anywhere you want shade and comfort outdoors. Folding-arm awnings are most often fitted over patios, decks and alfresco areas to create a cool, useable outdoor room in summer, and they work equally well shading windows and doors to keep the heat off the glass — a real difference on Canberra’s hot north- and west-facing walls.
Because a retractable awning extends only when you want it, you get sun protection on a scorching afternoon and open sky the rest of the time. The right position comes down to the aspect of your home, where the afternoon sun falls, and how you use the space — which is exactly what we assess before we recommend a solution. And wherever your awning goes, how it’s fixed is just as important as where.
Image, Markilux 5010, folding arm awning. Installed in Hackett.
Markilux 6000, installed in Yarralumlah, ACT.
How we fit awnings — why strength matters
A folding-arm awning can weigh well over 100kg and, once extended, acts like a giant lever — so how it’s fixed to your home matters just as much as the awning itself. At Chadwick Designs we don’t simply bolt an awning to the wall; we engineer it into the building’s structure.
Every install is assessed for the wall type and the awning’s projection, and where needed we use steel spreader plates to distribute the load across a wide area rather than concentrating it on a few fixings. This is what prevents the common failures of poorly fitted awnings — fixings pulling out of the brickwork, cracked render, or an awning tearing away in a storm — and it’s especially critical across Canberra’s open, wind-exposed sites.
With over a decade fitting premium awnings throughout the ACT, we know exactly how to anchor yours to stand up to the elements and last for years.
Pictured. Markilux MX-3, installed Braddon, ACT. With Markilux 300mm x 400mm x 12mm spreader plate.
Markilux 5010, installed in Hughes, ACT, with a locally engineered vertical spreader plate.
Custom-engineered mounting — including above the roofline
Not every home offers a straightforward wall to fix to, and that’s where our fabrication experience sets us apart. Where a standard mount won’t work — or won’t look right — we can custom-engineer a raised mounting structure to fit your awning above the roofline.
This lifts the awning to a higher resting position that clears the roof and sits out of sight when it’s retracted, so you get full shade when you want it and a clean, uncluttered roofline when you don’t. Every custom structure is engineered for strength and fixed back to your home’s framing, so a better look never comes at the cost of security.
Image. Markilux 3300 installed in Reid, ACT.
Roof mounted Markilux 6000, installed in Forrest, ACT.
Roof mounted Markilux 6000, installed in Griffith, ACT.
Markilux 5010, installed above roof line, in Redhill, ACT.
Markilux Planet — the freestanding awning
The Markilux Planet is a freestanding awning that works where there’s no suitable wall to fix to — half parasol, half folding-arm awning, mounted on a slim column set into its own foundation.
Image courtesy of Markilux
It’s a genuine design piece for a garden, patio, pool area or roof terrace, and the flex version rotates up to 335° on an Easy-Go lever so you can turn the shade to follow the sun through the day. It shades up to around 28m², and can be manual, hardwired or remote-controlled, with optional LED lighting and the markilux shadeplus screen for extra glare protection. For open spaces where a wall-mounted awning won’t work, the Planet delivers the same premium Markilux shade — freestanding, and beautifully engineered.
Image courtesy of Markilux
How big can an awning go?
Bigger than most people expect. A single Markilux 6000 folding-arm awning can span up to 7 metres wide with a projection of up to 4 metres — enough to shade a large patio or entertaining area from one unit, with no posts to interrupt the space or the view.
For even larger areas, units can be coupled together to cover wider spans again, up to 14m. The right size for your home depends on the area you want to shade and the wall or structure available to fix to — which is exactly what we work out with you before recommending a solution. And the bigger the awning, the more the strength of the installation matters.
This awning pictured is 12m wide and is made from one continuous width of fabric and required a custom build onsite.
Markilux 3300, installed in Googong, NSW.
Markilux 6000 roof mounted, installed in Forrest, ACT.
What’s the difference between a full-cassette and an open awning?
The difference comes down to how well the awning protects itself when it’s rolled up. A full-cassette awning closes into a sealed housing that completely encloses the fabric, arms and roller when retracted — shielding everything from rain, dust and UV, giving a much longer life, and leaving a sleek, tidy box on the wall. An open (or open-cassette) awning has no full housing: the fabric rolls up but the arms and roller stay largely exposed to the weather, which keeps the cost down but means the awning is best suited to a spot that already has some overhead cover, like a balcony above.
A semi-cassette sits in between — a top cover that partly shelters the fabric for more sheltered positions. For Canberra’s climate — hot sun, frost and the occasional wild wind — we generally recommend a full cassette: the extra protection pays for itself in how long the awning lasts and how good it keeps looking.
Markilux 1710. Image courtesy of Markilux
Markilux 5010 roof mounted, installed in Narrabundah, ACT.
Markilux 5010, installed in Hackett, ACT.
Helioscreen full cassette. Installed in Vaucluse, NSW.
Helioscreen full cassette. Installed in Curtin, ACT.
Helioscreen full cassette. Installed in Ainslie, ACT.
Helioscreen full cassette. Installed in Lyneham, ACT.
Helioscreen full cassette. Installed in Lyneham, ACT.
