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.
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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