What customisation options are there for clear tarpaulins and screens?

I'm just going to talk quickly about edging strips — coloured reinforcement in the edges of our clear screens. The one on the left is a Flexi 30 material; it's the thinner of the two clear fabrics that we stock. The one on the right is the Ultra 50; it's a thicker, more clear fabric. The Flexi 30 has, as standard, a white edging strip in the hem, as you can see. That's kind of out of necessity, because the eyelets that are inserted need something fairly strong just to grip onto — without an edging strip the eyelets would pull out pretty easily. And that's not to say the material isn't strong, it's just a little bit thinner. Whereas the 50 is quite a rugged, thick material, and simply by doubling over the material on the hem it creates quite a strong surface into which we just put the eyelets. Now, we can put coloured strips into the Ultra 50 material, there's no problem doing that; and similarly, the standard in the Flexi 30 is white, but we can put other colours into this material as well.

Quick answer to a question that comes in a lot, which is: can we fit zips to our screens, our clear screens, our tarpaulins? The answer is yes, of course — I am holding one right now, and it's a heavy-duty zip as you can see. This is a two-metre-tall screen that's going out for use as a pergola side. They are a double-sided zip — that means there is a zip on either side, which means you can access from the inside and the outside.

Let's talk quickly about tie-back tassels as well, which are these things that we have fitted to the top of this screen we're just working on. Tie-back tassels are a really handy way of rolling up a screen and tying it up out of the way, but still keeping it fitted to your gazebo or your summer house. So yeah, tie-back tassels are a really handy little option that we can fit.

I just want to show you another little feature, which is an open hem, which you can see here. This here is a standard 40-millimetre hem with eyelets inserted into it, and that is your typical hem on a clear screen like this. But on the bottom here we have what we call an open hem, which allows you to slide things into it. Now that is particularly useful for the bottom edges of screens like the one we've got here, because it means you can slide something heavy like a chain or a wooden baton into the bottom of the screen, and that's going to keep the screen fairly well anchored to the ground to stop it blowing around in the wind. For example, this just happens to have another wall of a gazebo here which doesn't have any kind of hem other than a standard hem along the bottom of it, and in the wind this will blow back and forth as you can imagine.