Sunshade (Exterior) Company in Baton Rouge?

Not sure if it's an option for you, but I went for outdoor curtains in this situation, and it's far better for blocking sun than the shade that we used to have for nearly 11 years. Cost me less than $100 for the rod and curtains and I can tie them back to stay out of the way when not being used.

Ive had good luck with these shade cloths lasting forever but not sure if this is what you want

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I'll try to post pics later when I get home.

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That would be great! I would also be helpful (if you have time) if you could answer the following:

1 - What material did you get (i.e. Sunbrella)

2 - Do they have certain sun blocking "ratings" and if so, what did you get. Our goal is to block as much sun as possible. They don't have to be blackout curtains but what we have now (Coolaroo from Lowes) does not do a decent job of blocking out the sun even though we went with a high block-out rating.

3 - Where did you get them

4 - How often do you have to clean them and how do you do it. My wife mentioned that she heard the can get pretty dirty and was wondering about cleaning them.

Thanks!

Got them off Amazon. This is the one I got, but there are many options. The gray goes well with our paint and trim colors. We actually have 2 curtains to make the whole thing wider. Both are slid to one end of the rod then we can extend them as far as we need.

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This is the Amazon pic of what we got (terrible Photoshop job and all):



As far as cleaning, I really haven't had to do much besides knocking off the occasional dirt dobber nest that gets build inside the folds if we don't use for a bit. Aside from that, it's clean, and being waterproof, has shown no signs of fading.

Perfect and many thanks for the pics!