Made to your metre. Delivered in 6–8 weeks.
Motorised, full-cassette, built to the centimetre for your wall — and shipped straight from the line that makes it. No importer, no showroom, no reseller margin.
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The outdoor room you already paid for. Now you can use it.
Most Australian backyards are unusable from 11am to 4pm. A HOUSE 09 awning turns that dead space into the room your family actually lives in.
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01Made to your millimetreNo standard sizes. Send us the wall, we build to it — up to 7 metres wide.
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02Full cassette, not a half boxThe fabric and arms close into a sealed aluminium shell. Nothing to weather, nothing to clean.
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03Motor, remote and wind sensorRetracts itself at 30 km/h. You never come home to a broken awning.
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04Direct from productionNo importer, no showroom, no reseller margin. One price, door to door.
Shade that fits your house, not a catalogue.
We start with the awning. Everything here is engineered aluminium, built to your measurements after you order, and delivered to your door with freight, duty and GST already paid.
Available nowFull-Cassette Retractable Awning
Sealed cassette, chain-driven arms, wind sensor. Any size to 7 × 4 m.
Coming soonLouvred Pergola
Rotating aluminium roof, rain sensor, LED perimeter. Free-standing or attached.
Coming soonDrop-Arm Screen
Vertical shade for west-facing glass. Cuts room temperature by up to 8 °C.
Five years of warranty. Twenty of Australian sun.
Marine-grade 6063-T6 aluminium, powder-coated twice. Spanish acrylic fabric rated 8/8 for colourfastness. The same components the European brands use — without the European markup.
Frame
6063-T6 extruded aluminium, 2.0 mm wall. Double powder-coat, salt-spray tested to 1,000 hours.
Fabric
Spanish solution-dyed acrylic. 98% UV block, water-repellent, 8/8 colourfastness.
Motor
Tubular motor with app control and wind sensor. Somfy upgrade available.
Where the category stops, HOUSE 09 starts.
A retractable awning is four parts: a frame, a pair of arms, a fabric and a motor. Almost every brand in Australia buys the cheap version of all four and sells it on the strength of the showroom. Here is what we buy instead, and why it matters twenty summers from now.
Multi-chamber aluminium, not a hollow tube.
The cassette and arms are extruded 6063-T6 with internal ribs, the same principle that stops an aircraft wing folding under load. A hollow extrusion of the same weight bends; this one does not. Then it is powder-coated twice and salt-spray tested to 1,000 hours, which is what decides whether you still have a straight frame after ten summers within sight of the ocean.
Double-link chain arms. Motorcycle hardware.
Most awnings in this price bracket use a steel cable inside the arm. Cables stretch, and a stretched cable is why an awning starts to sag on one side after two seasons. We use forged arms with a stainless double-link chain — the same construction as a motorcycle drive chain — rated past 100,000 open-close cycles. Open it twice a day and that is 130 years of duty.
Solution-dyed acrylic. The colour is the fibre.
Cheap awning fabric is polyester with colour printed on the surface, which is why it goes chalky and pink after three Australian summers. Ours is solution-dyed acrylic: the pigment goes in while the fibre is still liquid, so there is no surface to fade off. It blocks 98% of UV, sheds water, and carries an 8 out of 8 colourfastness rating — the top of the scale, not near it.
Fully sealed. That is why it lasts twice as long.
A semi-cassette leaves the underside of the fabric open to the weather. Ours closes into a sealed aluminium shell with the fabric, the arms, the chains and the motor all inside it. No UV on the fabric between uses, no rain in the mechanism, no leaves, no nests. It is the single reason a fabric rated for ten years routinely goes twenty on a full-cassette unit.
IP65, soft-start, and it retracts itself.
The motor is rated IP65 — the standard used on offshore marine equipment, sealed against water and salt. It starts and stops softly rather than snatching, which is what saves the fabric and the chain over thousands of cycles, and it runs under 45 dB: quieter than your fridge. The wind sensor is included, not an upsell, and pulls the awning in at around 30 km/h whether you are home or not.
