maantaoutdoor.comReviews of maantaoutdoor.com

I have 2 reef rollers. The first one arrived right on schedule and the second arrived 3 days early(both sent to CA). So shipping from Italy was excellent. I bought these because I had quality issues with the big box store offerings. The Manta shades are great quality. The slight improvements that should be made are: 1) screwing the fabric down into the elastic cord at the ends of the fabric is frustrating since cord just rotates so you have to fuss a lot to get the screws in. 2) the wire cable attachment to the brackets should be revised with a ferrule at one end at least. 3)the width of shade plus brackets does not account for the nuts required to fasten the shade to the brackets. For between post installations this could cause a problem.

Excellent quality! The shade exceeded my expectations. It is very well constructed and I will be enjoying it for years to come. Thank you.

Reall fast service. Fantastic product. Finest quality. Great customer service.

I had the same issue as Joe and had to expand and re-tap the holes between the aluminum sleeve and steel core (alusimple 75). I thought I was losing my mind. Glad my experience was confirmed. Otherwise a really nice product

I love the quality of the shade sail poles. The ability to adjust the shade sail at any height is a great feature! These poles are very well made and hold the tension of my 12' x 16' shade sail with ease. The only issue I had was when I tried to install the set screws from the exterior of the poles to the inner structural (rectangular) poles. The holes on the upper exterior poles were misaligned and I had to expand the holes and tap the holes to get everything to line up. My guess is that the calibration for the hole drilling at the factory was out of adjustment. Regards, Joe Stambaugh, Taneytown, Maryland, USA.

Terrible experience. We ordered 6 shades for a parklet that we built a client on 6/26, we received 6 of 5 units on 7/5. Despite lots of communication with Maanta, we still don't have our 6th shade. They don't actually have stateside support, so talking to somehow has a limited window where we are awake and their phone is staffed. Their customer service while responsive, is defensive and unhelpful. We still haven't received our product and they act they are doing us a favor to look into it. They have created timelines, which they then miss. The product is also terrible. They can make custom widths, by adding pieces of extrusion the length of their box together up to your desired size. Each joint has a splice of another extrusion, these just float inside the outside extrusion, so if you move the assembly out of horizontal, all the splices slide to the low end (which can only be adjusted by taking it apart again. Given that to install these you have to put them at an angle, all the splices end up at one end. The joints without the splice arent strong enough, and they bend under tension. We had to take them down, take them back apart, and silicone all the splices in place before re-assembling, and re-installing. We ordered these with both the hook hold downs, and the wire guides, and neither method is satisfactory. Our use is in a mildly windy environment, and the weighted bars are at head height for a seated customer. The weighted bars with hooks moved around so much we didn't feel like we could risk leaving them down without the wind blowing them free, and this heavy metal bar either blowing into the street and hitting a car, or smacking someone inside the parklet in the face. We tried the wire guides. These are designed so that the bottom bar rides up and down on a cable. The nuts on the top hardware dont align with the mounts on the bottom bar, so they cant be installed vertically, they need slack, or else they wont go all they way up. This leaves them loose and unsightly. The cables fasten into 1/2" square steel blocks with a simple set screw, which will definitely fail The anchors in the metal bar are held in with tiny screws that thread into 1/8" vinyl piping in the vinyl shade itself, again, totally unacceptable to hold the ejointtogtehr. These are tragically conceived details that will blow apart and lead to someone getting hurt. There are more details that dont work. Ultimately we decided with our client to simply screw the bottom bars down to the wall so that they don't become projectiles and kill someone. We are looking for another solution and these will be thrown out. A supreme waste of time and money, absolute garbage product and company.

Great product and easy to install and adjust. Not just a canopy but one that has flexibility to adjust if needed. Appears seams are very strong and heavy gauged metal for corners and hardware to install.

Reef Roll shades are nice. Seem to be well made. Installation instructions could be better. Received 1 defective part which is the block that holds the cable in place. The threads were stripped. I emailed Maanta through their website and attached a picture of the stripped part. They replied, asking me to send more pictures but not of the defective part. They wanted pictures of the 2 roller shades. For what??? I’ve worked in manufacturing before. When a customer complains that a $2 part was received defective, you rush out a new part.