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Awnings are one of the best ways you can add functionality, beauty and value to your home. Well designed awnings look good and improve your quality of life. The addition of awnings to your home is money well spent.
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Awnings are secondary coverings attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas or acrylic cloth that is stretched tightly over a light structure of aluminum, iron or steel, and possibly wood.
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Awnings became a common feature in the years after the Civil War. Iron plumbing pipe, which was quickly adapted for awning frames, became widely available and affordable as a result of mid-century industrialization. It was a natural material for awning frames, easily bent and threaded together to make a range of different shapes and sizes. At the same time the advent of the steamship forced canvas mills and sail makers to search for new markets. An awning industry developed offering an array of frame and fabric options adaptable to both storefronts and windows.
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Awnings require ventilation to keep hot air from becoming trapped around the window. Grommets (eyelets) or other openings along the tops and sides of an awning can provide ventilation. The awning may ... open to the sides or top to vent hot air.
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Awnings were first used by the ancient Egyptian and Syrian civilizations. They are described as "woven mats" that shaded market stalls and homes. A Roman poet Lucretius, in 50 BC, said "Linen-awning, stretched, over mighty theatres, gives forth at times, a cracking roar, when much 'tis beaten about, betwixt the poles and cross-beams".
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A mobile veterinary clinic, RVs, trucks, tables and awnings cover the Carmalita Baseball Field. Animal workers and volunteers have come from all over Florida to offer aid, including Tietboehl, who works at the San Carlos Park Animal Hospital.
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