Patio Umbrellas

We all love to move outdoors. Most people love spending time on our patios and decks, which extends our living spaces to enjoy the scenery and the sights, the sounds and the fresh air of the great and beautiful outdoors.

The best and the most common way to always enjoy your outdoor living space would be through the use of a patio umbrella, which is sometimes referred to as a garden umbrella. Patio umbrellas can generally block out the sun’s glare and its damaging and harmful UV rays, which offer a design focal point, as well as make a space inviting enough for people to gather in different weather conditions. Probably the most important thing that you would need to consider would be just how much shade you require.

A lot of patio umbrellas are available in standard sizes, with the most popular being the 6 foot, the 7.5 foot, the 9 foot and the 11 foot diameters. However the amount of shade that you would be getting would depend on other factors such as the season, your latitude as well as the sun’s changing angle. Fortunately, there are some basic guidelines which you could use to choose the right one to suit your needs.

The umbrella which has a diameter of 6 or 6.5 feet would be adequate to provide shade for a 30-inch diameter table and two chairs. One which has a diameter of 7.5 feet would be enough to shade a 36 inch table with two to four chairs. The one with a diameter of 9 feet would sufficiently cover a table with a diameter of 48 inches with four to six chairs, and an 11 foot patio umbrella would be best for a round table with a diameter of 60 inches or a 72-inch rectangular table that has six to eight chairs.

So that you would be getting the maximum shade from your umbrella, you might want to consider getting one which has a tilt feature. This would allow you a shady environment to be maintained as the sun changes its position. You could get your patio umbrella with any of two tilt features available in the market today, which would be auto-tilt and manual tilt. For a patio umbrella that has an auto-tilt and crank lift feature, when you turn the crank handle, the umbrella frame’s top would tilt up to around 45 degrees. On the other hand, a patio umbrella that has a manual tilt feature would allow you to position the patio umbrella at 35 degrees or 45 degrees through pressing the push button which is inner-locking.