Roller Blinds
Sunscreen where Walker Bay is the reason you bought the house, blockout where an afternoon nap can't wait — made to measure for every window from Hermanus to Gansbaai.
Two fabrics, two jobs
Sunscreen fabric, in 3%, 5% or 10% openness, cuts glare and UV while keeping the water 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 our standard recommendation on any window facing Walker Bay, because for most of the year, whale season included, the point of that glass is the water, not a reason to lose it.
Blockout fabric does the opposite job: total dark for a nursery, a nap-time bedroom or a shift-worker's odd hours, plus a genuine insulating layer against an Overberg winter. It's the fabric to reach for anywhere the goal is "no light at all," not "less light."
02Double roller, one bracket
Most sea-facing bedrooms end up running a double roller — blockout for night, sunscreen for the day — on the same headrail. It's the practical middle ground between wanting the view during the day and wanting to actually sleep once the sun's up over the bay.
03Hardware built for this coast
Every bracket, chain and tube we specify near Walker Bay is powder-coated or otherwise salt-air rated as standard, not an upgrade — cheap fittings pit and seize within a season or two out here. Chain control comes with a wall-anchored tensioner, spring-assist gives a lighter action, and fully motorised control makes sense for wide extension glass or a stairwell run nobody wants to reach with a pole.
- Salt-air-rated hardware as standard on every install near the water
- Fabric range runs from entry weaves through to premium sunscreen fabrics
- 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. In Stanford's heritage cottages, a timber venetian often suits the original window reveal better than a roller; we'll tell you when that's the case rather than sell you the wrong product.
What to budget for roller blinds
Guides by the square metre installed, not a quotation. Hand-operated rollers in blockout, sunscreen or a light-filtering weave price at R1,000 to R1,600, with plain blockout toward the cheap end and a close weave holding a bay view, or a double roller carrying both fabrics on one head, toward the dear end. Motorised, budget R2,500 to R3,800 with tube motor and control counted.
Two coastal caveats. Within sight of the water, sealed cassettes and marine-grade brackets belong to the specification rather than to an options list, and they show as their own lines. And a window under roughly a square metre is billed at a minimum instead of an area rate, since bracket, tube and labour do not shrink with the pane. The per-window figure is confirmed in writing after the free measure.
From Hermanus's cliffside glass to Stanford's heritage cottages, sunscreen and blockout rollers are the everyday answer on almost every window we measure across the Whale Coast.
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