Roller Blinds
The workhorse of every Fourways new build — blockout, sunscreen, and the double-roller combo that gives a bedroom both.
The workhorse of every Fourways new build — blockout, sunscreen, and the double-roller combo that gives a bedroom both.
A roller blind is a fabric panel on an aluminium tube — spring, chain or motor driven — made to measure for each window. It’s the product we fit more of than any other across the estate belt, because it suits the big, plain, aluminium-framed glazing that comes standard in almost every new Fourways build.
Total light stop, for bedrooms, nurseries, media rooms and anyone on shift work. Beyond the darkness, a blockout roller adds a genuine insulating layer against summer heat and winter cold — worth factoring in on west-facing rooms that bake by late afternoon.
An open-weave mesh fabric, typically rated at 3%, 5% or 10% openness, that cuts glare and UV while keeping the view through your sliding doors. The lower the percentage, the more heat and glare it blocks and the less view it keeps — 3–5% is the usual sweet spot for view-preserving sun control on a big glazed living area.
Worth knowing before you choose it for a bedroom: sunscreen gives daytime privacy but reverses at night — with the lights on inside, you’re visible from outside. Pair it with curtains or a second roller for any room that needs privacy after dark.
Blockout and sunscreen fabric on one bracket, run independently — the practical answer for a bedroom that still wants the garden view during the day and total darkness at night. It’s the single most-requested spec on bedroom windows across the estate belt.
“It’s rarely one fabric decision — it’s matching the fabric to what actually happens in that room, hour by hour.”
Modern open-plan homes, apartments and any wall of glass — easy to clean, wide fabric choice from entry to premium, and the cleanest possible line against an aluminium frame. They suit almost every room in a new Fourways build. Where they lose ground is a very wide unbroken span, where a join line becomes visible, or a heritage cottage look, where a timber venetian usually reads better.
Treat these as a guide per square metre, installed. A manual roller blind — chain or spring, blockout, sunscreen or light-filter — runs from about R1,000 to R1,600 per square metre, with a plain blockout at the lower end and a premium sunscreen or a double roller towards the top. Motorised, budget R2,500 to R3,800 per square metre, which covers the tube motor, the control you choose and the setup on the day.
Two things to know before you do the sums. Small windows carry a minimum charge, because a scullery window takes the same brackets, tube and fitting time as a big one. And these are ranges, not a quote: the exact price for each window is worked out after the free measure and put in writing before anything is ordered.
The same blockout, sunscreen and double-roller options, measured and fitted in the neighbouring areas we know just as well.
