The everyday answer for new-estate glass — sunscreen where the view matters, blockout where it doesn't need to get in at all.
Sunscreen fabric (in 3%, 5% or 10% openness) cuts glare and UV while keeping the garden or fairway 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 big glass most Ruimsig homes are built around.
Blockout fabric does the opposite job: total dark for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms, plus a genuine insulating layer against Highveld summer heat and winter cold. It's the fabric to reach for anywhere the goal is "no light at all," not "less light."
02Most bedrooms with a garden or street-facing view end up running a double roller — blockout for night, sunscreen for day, on the same headrail. It's the practical middle ground between wanting the light and wanting to actually sleep in.
03Chain control with a wall-anchored tensioner as standard, spring-assist for a lighter action, or fully motorised for wide or hard-to-reach windows — see our note on motorised automation for linked, multi-blind runs across a stacking-door wall.
A guide per square metre, installed, not a quotation. A chain or spring roller, blockout or sunscreen or light-filter, prices at R1,000 to R1,600 for every square metre. Where you land inside that is mostly about fabric: an off-the-shelf blockout colour is cheapest, while a tight sunscreen in an extra-wide width, or two cloths sharing a bracket, is dearest.
Motorised, the guide moves to R2,500 to R3,800 a square metre — the tube motor, the control you choose, and setting it up on fitting day. Across a stacking-door wall that is usually the practical answer rather than a luxury. Small windows carry a minimum charge, because the brackets, tube and installer time barely change with size, and the number that binds is written per opening after the free measure.
Very wide spans — beyond roughly 3m of unbroken fabric — need either a central join line or a second, linked blind. Estate homes with heritage-style detailing sometimes suit a timber venetian better than a roller.
From Eagle Canyon's fairway-facing glass to Constantia Kloof's older window openings, sunscreen and blockout rollers are the everyday answer on almost every street we measure.
Sunscreen weaves on wide fairway-facing glass.
Read moreDouble rollers — blockout and sunscreen — for family bedrooms.
Read moreRollers on the big ridge-view openings, alongside our venetians.
Read moreMade-to-measure fits for older, non-standard window sizes.
Read moreFree in-home measure, written per-window quote, no pressure.