Why Northborough
The Deck Off The Kitchen
Walk into almost any house on a Northborough cul-de-sac and the layout is familiar. Garage in front, kitchen and family room across the back, and a slider out to a deck that was built with the house. The developers who filled the land between Route 20 and the Assabet River set the houses square to the street, which means a good share of those decks take the full afternoon sun until it drops behind the trees.
An interior shade on that slider is working after the glass has already heated up. Exterior mesh stops the sun outside, and that one change blocks up to 90 percent of the solar heat because the sun never reaches the glass. The kitchen stops running hot at dinner time and the deck becomes a place to sit at four o'clock instead of a place to cross on the way to the grill.
Closer to Main Street the houses are older, the porches sit nearer the neighbors, and a tighter weave earns its keep. Out toward the orchards and farm stands on the edge of town the lots open up and the problem is pure sun with no tree line to help. Our exterior roller shades use marine grade fabric in aluminum housings on wind rated side tracks, which is what a shade needs if it is going to live outside through a Massachusetts summer.
Kevin owns the company and does the measuring and the installing himself, so the person who looked at your deck is the person who mounts the shade. Northborough is an easy trip for us, out Route 9 or across Route 20, and the Solomon Pond end near 290 is no farther than the center.
