🌞 Coolaroo 301408: Enhance Your Shade Fabric with Lacing Needle Attachment and Placement Set Review

Gets the job done. It only gets 3 stars because advantages: + Ready to use. All you need is a hammer + Inexpensive and quick to attach to wood + Didn't damage the fabric of the pergola or the wood + Holds the fabric in place very firmly and securely. Cons: - They cannot be removed and reinstalled. Use needle nose pliers to remove it and it's 50/50 if it keeps its shape or all 8 teeth. Even very careful removal of these rendered the mounts unusable. Of the 50, only about 3 could not successfully

I've tried butterfly clips to attach shade fabric but found them very difficult to close so I bought this cord and needle thinking that I fold the shade fabric over the track and sew it on. The needle that came with the cord was too big for my purpose; It was very difficult to pull the cord through the double layer. I found a pack of "assorted yarn needles" at Revain that was much smaller and worked great. The one I used was about 2.5 inches long with a curved tip to guide it. The resulting…

Coolaroo needs improvement on this product. They become brittle and break. I bought three packs of 20 two years ago and installed them by holding three 6' x 30' pieces of shading fabric stretched lengthwise between the nylon sheathed cables. This setup protects my yard from the scorching sun here in Southern California. The cables run through the clamps and are loose rather than tight. Despite three claims in the product description that their plastic "is UV resistant to provide long-lasting…