Why Medway
Pool Days That Last Past Five
The pattern on the newer streets north and west of the village is consistent. A deck comes off the kitchen slider, the pool sits in the yard below it, and the deck is where the adults sit while the kids are in the water. From about three on, the sun is in everyone's face on that deck, and a patio umbrella does nothing for sun coming in from the side.
An exterior shade mounted to the deck roof or pergola and dropped on the sun side changes the afternoon. Up to 90 percent of the solar heat stops at the mesh because the sun never reaches the glass or the chairs behind it. You can watch the pool through an open weave the way you would through sunglasses. If the neighbor's deck looks right at yours, a tighter weave takes care of that too.
Medway Village is a different house. Nineteenth century homes along Route 109 with porches that were built for shade in the first place, before the street trees came down and the road got busy. A mesh shade on the west end of one of those porches brings back what the porch was for. Down along the Charles on the southern edge of town, the glare off the water is the issue more than the heat, and the fix is the same shade in a tighter weave.
Every one of our exterior roller shades is built to be left outside from spring to the end of the season, with marine grade fabric, an aluminum housing, and wind rated side tracks. Kevin, who owns the business, measures the openings in person and installs the shades in person. He will also tell you plainly if a spot needs a pergola before it can take a shade.
