Blockout, sunscreen, or both on one bracket

Roller blinds are the answer for most windows in most Plattekloof homes, precisely because the choice of fabric does the work. Blockout fabric gives a bedroom or media room total dark, whatever the ridge's floodlights and streetlights are doing outside after sunset. Sunscreen fabric — usually 3% or 5% openness on view-facing glass — cuts glare and UV while leaving the mountain view intact, which matters more here than in almost any other suburb we work in.

Where a room needs both — a view-facing bedroom being the classic case — a double roller (day & night) pairs a sunscreen and a blockout fabric on a single bracket. Sunscreen by day keeps the view; blockout closes it down properly once the sun's gone and the ridge lights up outside.

  • Blockout fabric for total dark in bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms
  • Sunscreen fabric (3%, 5% or 10% openness) keeps the view while cutting glare and UV
  • Double roller (day & night) combines both on one bracket for view-facing bedrooms
  • Chain control with child-safe tensioners, spring-assist, or fully motorised
  • Cassette pelmets to hide the tube, fascia colour-matched to your window frames

Specifier note

Very wide unbroken spans (beyond roughly 3m of fabric) usually need a central join line or a linked, motorised pair rather than one oversized blind — we'll flag this at the measure rather than let it be a surprise on install day.

Built for a ridge-top spec

Plattekloof's stands are angled hard toward the view, which in practice means more west- and north-west-facing glass carrying more direct afternoon sun than a flat-stand suburb ever sees. Sunscreen rollers are the default answer for that big lounge glass — a blockout roller on its own would kill the view along with the glare. On upper-floor windows reached by a landing or stairwell rather than a normal wall, we'll usually recommend motorisation over a chain simply because it gets used.