Roller blinds for a Kommetjie window
The workhorse of the range — blockout, sunscreen and day/night options, made to measure for the dune light and salt air this end of the Peninsula gets daily.
A fabric panel that does most of the daily work
A roller blind is a single flat fabric panel on an aluminium tube, spring, chain or motor driven, made to measure per window. It’s the product that goes into the most rooms in a Kommetjie house, because it answers the most common brief: keep the dune view, lose the glare and the sting off the water when the sun is low over the ocean.
Blockout fabric is the bedroom answer — total light stop, and a genuine thermal layer against both the afternoon heat and a cold south-easter night. Sunscreen fabric, usually at 3–5% openness, is the living-room answer for glass that faces the dunes and the water: it cuts glare and UV while keeping the outline of the view, though it reverses at night (lit rooms show through) so a bedroom wants blockout or a second layer instead. Light-filtering fabric sits between the two — softened light, full privacy, no view.
A double roller (day/night combo) puts a blockout and a sunscreen fabric on one bracket — the practical answer for a bedroom that still wants the dune view during the day.
Why it suits a Kommetjie home specifically
Because the village sits low and flat against the dune belt rather than up a cliff, salt-laden air reaches roller hardware on every elevation, not just the sea-facing side. We specify aluminium components and, on chain-driven blinds, tensioners fitted as standard — a loose chain in a Kommetjie south-easter is a nuisance a cliff-sheltered suburb might not notice as often. Most of the bigger glass here looks south-west across the dunes rather than dead into a sunset, so the glare argument is steady afternoon light off open water more than one blinding hour — which is exactly the case sunscreen fabric is built for.
Roller blinds, answered
Will sunscreen fabric actually keep the dune view?
Yes — that’s the point of it. At 3–5% openness you keep the outline of the dunes and the water while the mesh weave cuts glare and UV. Go lower for more heat and glare control, but you’ll see less through the fabric — we help you weigh that at the measure.
Can roller blinds be motorised?
Yes, on any width. Battery motors retrofit without wiring; wired motors suit a build or renovation. A sun sensor can drop a west-facing roller automatically, and motorisation removes chains entirely — the most child-safe operation there is.
Is a chain-driven blind safe near the wind here?
Interior rollers aren’t exposed to wind the way an awning or screen is, so this is more a child-safety point than a wind one — chain tensioners anchoring the loop taut to the wall are fitted as standard on our installs.
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Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, and fabric specified for the light this end of the Peninsula actually gets.
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