Roller Blinds
Sunscreen where the garden or street view matters, blockout where the room actually needs to go dark — made to measure for the Southern Suburbs' sash windows, steel-frame openings and family extensions alike.
Two fabrics, two jobs
Sunscreen fabric, in 3%, 5% or 10% openness, cuts glare and UV while keeping the garden or street 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 modern Southern Suburbs extensions are built around.
Blockout fabric does the opposite job: total dark for a nursery or a shift-worker's bedroom, plus a genuine insulating layer against the swing between a warm afternoon and a damp, cool Cape evening. It's the fabric to reach for anywhere the goal is "no light at all," not "less light."
02Double roller, one bracket
Most street-facing bedrooms end up running a double roller — blockout for night, sunscreen for the rest of the day, on the same headrail. It's the practical middle ground between wanting daylight and wanting to actually sleep.
03Control options
Chain control with a wall-anchored tensioner as standard, spring-assist for a lighter action, or fully motorised for wide extension glass or an awkward stairwell run — see our motorised automation range for linked, multi-blind setups.
- Suits both shallow original sash openings and wide modern extension glass
- Fabric range runs from entry weaves through to premium 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 original sash and casement windows, a timber or aluminium venetian sometimes suits the shallow reveal better than a roller.
From Wynberg's sash windows to Bergvliet's wide Garden-City glazing, sunscreen and blockout rollers are the everyday answer on almost every window we measure across the corridor.
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