Solare Verticali
Cleverly designed in Australia with over 30 years industry experience by our in house R&D team, the SOLARE Verticali was made to combat the elements and protect against wind, rain, UV, and insects while offering privacy on your Alfresco, pergola, balcony or terrace. With various head box styles or simple bracket only mounting options, the design elements had extensive focus during the creative stages of development to offer a seamless presentation of retractable screen excellence.
Features:
Installer Friendly
Thermally efficient
Versatility
Environmentally friendly
Custom-built for every application
Standard Headbox
The Standard Headbox features a precision-engineered bevelled front profile and a robust extruded aluminium rear structure. Designed with installers in mind, the patented hinged mechanism allows seamless alignment of the front and rear profiles during installation. This innovative feature provides stability, enabling one-person handling without risk of misalignment. Additionally, pre-drilled start lines simplify the installation process, ensuring efficient and accurate mounting. Its optional integrated self-support track legs make this headbox a reliable choice for secure and lasting installation.
Ideal for: Installations requiring durability and ease of use, especially in environments where quick yet secure assembly is crucial.
Square Headbox
Engineered for modern design needs, the Square Headbox offers a sleek, linear aesthetic without sacrificing functionality. This lightweight yet durable aluminium extrusion is equipped with the same installer-friendly features as the Standard Headbox, including pre-drilled start lines and a patented hinged profile for easy assembly and installation. Its optional self-supporting track headbox legs ensure secure, seamless track integration, making it a favorite among installers and designers alike.
Ideal for: Contemporary projects where design and ease of installation are key considerations.
Colorbond Square Headbox Option
The Colorbond Square Headbox provides a cost-effective alternative to the extruded aluminium option without compromising the stylish linear profile of the original square design. Crafted with a heavy-duty, high-pressure cast alloy end caps embossed with the Solare Verticali logo, this headbox is engineered for durability.
Large fixing wings enhance installation efficiency, while the self-supportive leg adaptability remains intact, ensuring both performance and ease of installation.
Ideal for: Budget-conscious projects that still demand a modern, stylish design with robust installation features.
Side Channels
The Verticali side channel design strikes the perfect balance between strength, install ability and appeal. Made thicker and stronger than any market leader which increases its wind rating to exceed industry standards. With the ability to be face-fitted or recess-fitted without any additional angles or components making it easier to install with a smoother finished result. The side channel often referred to as a side track can also self-support meaning they can be fixed via a specially designed lug on the hood end cap and clean span all the way to the ground. A special side channel end cap is used at the base of the track to secure it. This eliminates the requirement for a post when there’s nothing to fit to
Bottom Rail
The Verticali bottom rail is designed with a critical design balance in mind. It is slimline to reduce the stacked dimension of the product overall but large enough to accommodate sufficient weight to ensure gravity does its job and hold the fabric down nice and taught. The weight ability of our bottom rail ensures fabric tension which keeps the fabric flat with a significant reduction in waffling and fabric wrinkles common with side channel blinds. Without oversizing the bottom rail, the finished aesthetic is as slimline as possible without compromising strength, coupled with our high performance fabric locks which retains the fabric stretch along the bottom rail so optimal performance is assured.
Roller Tubes
Roller sizing is a critical factor. If the roller is too small, it will bow and deflect and put waves and smiles in the fabric. We upsized our rollers, offering 78mm , 85mm and 125mm tube upgrades for wider spans. This selection of roller tubes ensures the deflection rate is minimalised giving the fabric the best chance of overall flatness. Having more than one roller on offer allows the retailer to customise the product to the next level and ensure the prefect marriage of roller sizing and fabric selection.
Roller Reducers
Roller reducers are a critical component in any side retention blind. Without them the side retention technology has nowhere to travel around the roller and the result is waffling or smiles in the fabric. The Verticali roller reducers allow the side retention zipper room to lay flat, further increasing fabric flatness. Roller reducers are available for all sizes of roller tubes. This is not often seen inside channel blinds, and it is a component of high importance for a superior aesthetic.
Other Options and Features
Fabric Options
Fabric options are plentiful as the technical features of this blind, like the variable roller tube sizing and roller reducers that allow for most common mesh types and clear PVC. Due to this it can be manufactured using both polyester and fibreglass yarns with a 2 x 2 basket weave, 1 x 1 weave, 2 x 1 weave or the preferred twill weave fiberglass fabric when spans are larger for superior results resulted.
Control Options
Motor options are endless as the Verticali was designed to fit all common types and mountings. The Verticali can be manually operated via a crank handle or has a spring lock option yet adaptable to all motor technologies to suit voice activation and application-based operation management via smart phones etc.
Sizing
Size capacity can be as small as 800 mm with the Verticali able to reach sizes of up to 7.1 meters in width utilizing the Verticali Plus components and up to 4m in drop. We recommend a maximum of 16 m2 however we have seen volumes of products well exceeding that have long-term high-quality results.
Top Stops
Top stops were integrated into our side tracks to ensure the bottom rail sits parallel to the headbox when retracted. The nature of woven mesh fabric used is a variation in the weave strengths, bow and skew variables and dimensional instability. It is simply the nature of fabric weaving and when dissected to the micro levels of analysis during R&D our team knew the system had to compensate for these variables. Top stops ensure those variables are combated and allow the bottom rail to hit those stops at the top of travel and pull up against them ensuring a balanced tension across the fabric weave which pulls the bottom rail straighter than the competition.
Zip
The specially designed polymer coil zip retains the fabric in the side channel was custom made. We didn’t use an off the shelf weldable zipper which is the common practice. We approached a world leader in this fabrication methodology to help us develop our weldable zip. The chemical engineering was done to develop a weldable adhesive to well exceed the industry standards. The custom woven ribbon was specifically designed to have the correct amount of movement required which helps absorb the varying tensile nature of woven mesh fabrics and pvc’s. Then we got to work on the coils of the zipper themselves. Our coils and wire gauge in the coils were specifically designed in shape and spacing to provide optimum gliding performance and self-lubrication with minimal audibility and of course strength exceeding currently available systems.
Design Finesse
The Verticali side channel design strikes the perfect balance between strength, install ability and appeal. Made thicker and stronger than any market leader which increases its wind rating to exceed industry standards. With the ability to be face-fitted or recess-fitted without any additional angles or components making it easier to install with a smoother finished result. The side channel often referred to as a side track can also self-support meaning they can be fixed via a specially designed lug on the hood end cap and clean span all the way to the ground. A special side channel end cap is used at the base of the track to secure it. This eliminates the requirement for a post when there’s nothing to fit to
Design Features
Install ability
Installer friendliness was paramount during the R&D process when we designed the components. Our veteran team of industry experts had the know-how to ensure the installers’ job was made as easy as possible and the manufacturing techniques were simplified yet strengthened. Verticali was the very first certified all Australian made side tracking blind and easier to install than any other on the market.
Manufacturing
Fabric cutting and manufacturing for side tracking blinds traditionally presented a labour-intensive process which left itself open to a myriad of possible mistakes and weaknesses. The common manufacturing methods and shortfalls that had been accepted by our industry got flipped on its head with our simple and easy manufacturing technique which not only simplified and streamlined the process it made it more durable and eliminated the common stress points found in other side-tracking blind products. Our fabric manufacturing design ensures a much longer life for the product than its competition.