Roller blinds for Durbanville Hills’ new-build glazing

Roller blinds are the most commonly fitted product in Durbanville Hills, and for good reason — they suit almost any room, they’re easy to keep clean, and the fabric choice does most of the work. For new-build owners, they’re also often the very first window covering the house has ever had. The real question is rarely “roller or not,” it’s which fabric, and whether one blind is enough for what that particular window needs to do.

Fabric — the decision that matters

• Blockout — total light stop, for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms. It also works as an extra insulating layer against the Cape’s summer heat and winter chill.
• Sunscreen (3–10% openness) — a mesh weave that cuts glare and UV while keeping the view. Lower openness blocks more heat and glare but shows less of the view; 3–5% is the standard choice for view-preserving sun control on Durbanville Hills’ bigger north-facing panes. The honest trade-off: sunscreen gives daytime privacy but reverses at night once the lights are on inside.
• Light-filtering / translucent — softens the light and gives full privacy without full blockout, a middle ground for living areas.

Double roller (day/night combo)

A blockout and a sunscreen fabric on one bracket is the practical answer for a bedroom that also happens to have the view — sunscreen up during the day, blockout down at night, without two separate blinds fighting for the same window.

Fit and finish

Chain control gets a wall tensioner as standard practice for child safety, and spring-assist or fully motorised options are both available — motorisation removes the chain question entirely, and it’s the practical choice on the wide picture windows and open-plan glazing common on new-build estates here. A cassette or pelmet valance hides the tube and can be colour-matched to your window frames. Single blinds run to roughly 3m of fabric width before a join line or a linked, motorised pair becomes the better answer.

What a roller blind costs here

A roller is quoted by the square metre, fitted, with fabric and control setting most of the figure. Manual, whether chain or spring, in blockout, sunscreen or light-filtering fabric: R1,000 to R1,600 the square metre. Motorised, the same window comes to R2,500 to R3,800, which covers the tube motor, the control you settle on and the setup on installation day.

There is a floor on any one blind. A narrow bathroom window uses the same head rail, the same brackets and the same hour of fitting as a wide one, so it is billed at that floor. The bands are a planning tool and nothing more. Real numbers are produced at the free measure, one per window, and confirmed in writing.