Product
Roller Blinds
The everyday workhorse for Menlo Park windows — blockout, sunscreen or a day & night combo, made to measure for every opening, whether it's original or part of the new extension.
The everyday workhorse for Menlo Park windows — blockout, sunscreen or a day & night combo, made to measure for every opening, whether it's original or part of the new extension.
A fabric panel on an aluminium tube, spring, chain or motor driven — clean and minimal, and made to measure for the exact opening. The fabric you choose is what actually changes how a room feels.
Blockout stops light completely — the right call for bedrooms, nurseries, shift-workers and media rooms, with a genuine thermal benefit against summer heat and winter cold.
Sunscreen (openness factor 3%, 5% or 10%) is a mesh weave that cuts glare and UV while keeping the view — a lower percentage blocks more heat and glare but shows less view; 3–5% is the standard for view-preserving sun control on the big glass that's gone into so many Menlo Park extensions. Sunscreen gives daytime privacy but reverses at night, so it's usually paired with curtains or a second roller in bedrooms.
Light-filtering fabric softens light and gives full privacy without a view — a middle ground many living rooms and studies land on.
Blockout and sunscreen on one bracket is the practical answer for a bedroom with a view — sunscreen down by day, blockout down for sleep, both retracted for the full window. Control is by chain (fitted with a child-safe tensioner as standard), spring-assist, or motorised — motorisation is the natural upgrade on wide spans and above stair voids. Cassette or pelmet valances hide the tube and colour-match the fascia to your frames.
Single blinds run to roughly 3m of fabric width before a join line or a motorised split becomes the tidier answer — worth flagging at your measure if you've got a wide sliding door or a bank of windows.
They're the strongest choice for modern living rooms, extensions with big glass, and any budget from entry-level fabric to premium motorised systems, and they're easy to keep clean. On a very wide unbroken span they'll need a join line, and on a heritage-style sash window a timber venetian usually suits the proportions better than a roller.
A guide per square metre, installed, rather than a quotation. A hand-operated roller, whichever of the three cloths you choose, falls between R1,000 and R1,600 for each square metre. Stock blockout is where the range starts; a low-openness sunscreen in a wide fabric, or two rollers doubled up on one set of brackets, is near the top.
Motorised, that same blind costs R2,500 to R3,800 for each square metre, which covers the tube motor, the remote or wall control and setting it up on fitting day. Two things to note before you do the arithmetic. Small windows carry a minimum charge, because a bathroom opening requires the same tube, the same brackets and much the same effort as a wide one. And the figure that binds is written against each opening after the free measure, not taken from a range.
The workhorse product across the whole patch — wide-format sunscreen on renovated extensions and big lounges, blockout for bedrooms, on every street from the original stands to the newest rebuild.