Roller Blinds
Sunscreen for the evening glare off the bay, blockout for the bedrooms and holiday lock-ups that need real dark — made to measure for Melkbosstrand's cottage windows and glass-wall rebuilds alike.
Two fabrics, two jobs
Sunscreen fabric, in 3%, 5% or 10% openness, cuts glare and UV while keeping the dune and ocean visible through the weave — the lower the percentage, the more heat and glare it stops, at the cost of a little view. A 3-5% weave is the standard choice for the wide glass most Melkbosstrand rebuilds are built around, because the whole point of that glass was the view in the first place.
Blockout fabric does the opposite job: total dark for a bedroom, a nursery, or a holiday home standing empty through the working week — plus a genuine insulating layer against a house that takes wind and temperature swings from three sides.
02Double roller, one bracket
Most sunset-facing living rooms and main bedrooms end up running a double roller — sunscreen for the evening glare, blockout for full dark at night, on the same headrail. It's the practical answer to a window that has to do two jobs a day, in wind and light that swing hard between them.
03Control options
Chain control with a wall-anchored tensioner as standard, spring-assist for a lighter action, or fully motorised — worth considering on any window in a house that sits empty for stretches, since it lets you check and close blinds remotely rather than trusting the house to itself. See our motorised automation range for linked, multi-blind setups.
- Suits both the original 1950s cottage openings and wide glass-wall rebuilds
- Fabric range runs from entry weaves through to premium, salt-air-rated sunscreen fabrics
- Cassette or pelmet valances hide the tube, fascia colour-matched to your frames
One honest limit
Very wide spans — beyond roughly 3m of unbroken fabric — need either a central join line or a second, linked blind. On a narrow original cottage window, an aluminium venetian sometimes suits the shallow reveal better than a roller.
From Melkbosstrand's cottage windows to the beachfront apartments of Bloubergstrand, sunscreen and blockout rollers are the everyday answer on almost every window we measure.
Where a roller lands, per square metre
Guide figures, installed. A hand-operated roller in blockout, sunscreen or a light-filtering fabric works out at R1,000 to R1,600 per square metre; a plain blockout sits at the bottom of that and a premium mesh, a sealed cassette or a twin-fabric bracket at the top. Once a motor goes in the tube, that same window sits at R2,500 to R3,800 per square metre.
A small window carries a minimum charge, because the tube, the brackets and the fitting time barely move with the width. Treat the band as something to plan around: the figure for your own openings is worked out at the free measure and confirmed in writing before anything is ordered.
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