Est. 1988 · Family-run
About AL Patio Solutions & Awnings
Thirty-eight years ago this business was one man and a garage in Kempton Park. Today it shades homes and businesses across four regions, and the same standards still apply.
Hands-on since day one
The story
Started in a garage, built on service
Albert van Wyk started trading awnings from a garage in Kempton Park in 1988. He stayed hands-on with everything: installations, sales, after-sales service. The business simply grew from strength to strength on the back of it.
That approach never changed. Our specialist consultants are backed by an experienced crew of installers, some of whom have been with the company since its inception. When we say "get it right the first time", it's the founding habit, not a slogan.
Star Readers' Choice winner
The track record
Recognised excellence, nationwide reach
Readers of The Star voted us the best awning company in the country in their 2007 Your Choice poll, and Independent Newspapers confirmed it in writing: ballot one, first position. Both are further down this page. We've designed and erected awnings for homes, hotels, game lodges, and for the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton.
Whether you buy in Johannesburg, Wilderness, Pretoria or at our Cape Town head office, you get exactly the same product, made and fitted to the same standard. Many customers still know us simply as Alps Awnings, the short name that stuck.
- Best awning company 2007, Star Readers' Choice
- Same product, every branch. One factory standard
- Installers since inception, so the experience stays
Why choose AL Patio Solutions
What four decades buys you
Years of hands-on awning experience
Guarantee on materials
Guarantee on workmanship
Branches: Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Wilderness
- Advice you can bank on. Albert and the team have measured, made and fitted awnings since 1988, so you get that experience in the first consultation, free.
- Our own people throughout. Consultants who measure, a factory that manufactures, teams that install. No sub-contracted mystery crews.
- Materials that last. Pre-painted baked aluminium, stainless steel and brass, chosen so the guarantee is a formality, not a gamble.
- A national footprint. Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and the Southern Cape, with the same workmanship in every region.
The file
Thirty-eight years of paper
Albert keeps everything. This is the part of it that backs up what the rest of this page says: the newspaper page, the letter from the publisher, the cheque, the magazine, and letters people posted without being asked to. Bank details, signatures and customers' home addresses are blanked out. Nothing else has been touched.
Best Awnings, 2007. The results page. The Star, Your Choice supplement, Wednesday 30 May 2007.
The publisher's letter. Independent Newspapers confirming ballot one, Best Awnings, first position. Their direct numbers are blanked.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation, 2001. Settled 14 September. The account number and signature are blanked — they are the Foundation's, not ours to publish.
home YARD, 2018. “Albert van Wyk of Al Awnings installed Julia's awning; here's his advice.” The cost, the hail, the rust, the colours — his answers.
“Rain or shine.” The Stellenbosch stoep the magazine came to photograph — adjustable louvres, opened for winter sun, shut against the rain.
“As voted by you, our readers.” The cover of the supplement the result appeared in.
Connie Meyer, 2011. On the team rather than the awning: efficient, respectful, and they cleaned up. Her email address is blanked.
Mrs D. R. Bray, Benoni. A parking awning, and the neighbours noticing. Cropped above her address.
J. F. Whitbread. “They were clean and very expert in performing their work.” Cropped above the address.
The Village Safe Haven, 2008. A children's home in Buccleuch. Louvre and fixed IBR. Their contact details are blanked.
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Four branches nationwide
We service all areas in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria and on the Garden Route
Local teams measure, manufacture and fit from four branches: head office in Cape Town, plus Johannesburg, Pretoria and Wilderness.