Roller Blinds
Sunscreen where the forest or lagoon view matters, blockout where the room needs real dark — made to measure for windows from George's drier inland streets to Mossel Bay's open bay-front glass.
Two fabrics, two jobs
Sunscreen fabric, in 3%, 5% or 10% openness, cuts glare and UV while keeping the forest or lagoon 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 Garden Route living rooms are built around, whether that glass looks into canopy or across water.
Blockout fabric does the opposite job: total dark for a nursery, a nap-time bedroom or a media room, plus a genuine insulating layer against a night that can turn properly cool and damp even after a warm afternoon — the corridor's rain doesn't wait for winter to arrive.
02Double roller for the two-light problem
Bedrooms that face both a misty morning and a strong afternoon glare — a lagoon-facing room in Wilderness or Sedgefield is the classic case — usually end up running a double roller: blockout for night and nap time, sunscreen for the rest of the day, on one bracket.
03Control and fabric spec for humidity
Chain control with a wall-anchored tensioner as standard, spring-assist for a lighter action, or fully motorised for wide glass or an awkward stairwell — see our motorised automation range for linked, multi-blind setups. Near the lagoons and the forest edge we default to solution-dyed, mould-resistant fabric rather than a standard entry weave, because the corridor's humidity runs high in every season, not just a wet month or two. Closer to Mossel Bay's open bay front, tube and bracket hardware gets upgraded to salt-air-rated components.
- Suits both George's drier inland glass and Mossel Bay's open bay-front windows
- Solution-dyed, mould-resistant fabric specified as standard near the lagoons and forest
- 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 an angled gable or skylight window, a shaped blind usually suits better than a flat roller.
From George's inland streets to Mossel Bay's bay front, sunscreen and blockout rollers are the everyday answer on almost every window we measure along the corridor.
What a roller blind costs along the corridor
Per square metre, installed: a roller on a chain, with blockout, sunscreen or translucent cloth on the tube, runs about R1,000 to R1,600 per square metre. A basic blockout takes the bottom figure; a close-woven sunscreen; a tight-openness sunscreen for bay-facing glass, or a twin-cloth blind running mesh and blockout together, sits at the upper. Motorised, allow R2,500 to R3,800 per square metre for the tube motor, the control and the setup.
These are guide bands rather than a quotation. Small windows carry a minimum charge, because the hardware and the fitting time barely shrink with the opening. Each window on your list is costed separately at the measure and set out in writing.
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