Roller Blinds for Cornwall Hill's Wide Glass

The roller is the workhorse of Cornwall Hill's window schedule — the answer that works on a modest dressing-room pane and on a run of glass three metres wide, provided it's specified correctly. Fabric choice is the real decision: blockout for bedrooms and media rooms, a low-openness sunscreen (3–5%) where the garden or paddock view matters more than total privacy, or light-filtering fabric where you want softness without darkness.

Choosing the fabric

Blockout gives total light stop and a genuine thermal benefit against summer heat and winter cold — the right call for a main-bedroom suite. Sunscreen fabrics cut glare and UV while keeping the view open through the day, but reverse at night once the lights go on inside, so bedrooms usually pair a sunscreen with a second, blockout roller on the same bracket — a double roller, in effect one blind with two jobs.

Wide spans on an estate stand

A single roller blind runs to roughly three metres of fabric width before it needs splitting with a central join line, or motorising a set of linked blinds instead. Great-room glass and double-volume entrances on Cornwall Hill stands are exactly the case where that decision gets made at the free measure, not guessed at online.

• Blockout, sunscreen (3%, 5%, 10% openness) and light-filtering fabrics
• Double roller (blockout + sunscreen on one bracket) for bedrooms with a view
• Chain (child-safe tensioned), spring or motorised control
• Cassette or pelmet valances, fascia colour-matched to your window frames

Where they work best

Bedrooms, dressing rooms, studies and any modern-glazed elevation where a clean, minimal line matters more than a decorative statement. For a homestead-style facade with sash or timber-framed windows, a timber venetian usually suits the architecture better — worth discussing at the measure.

What a roller blind costs on the estate

A chain-operated roller carrying blockout, sunscreen or a light-filter cloth lands at roughly R1,000 to R1,600 per square metre installed. Standard blockout takes the bottom of that; a fine sunscreen mesh of that; a tight-openness sunscreen for west-facing glass, or a paired blind with mesh and blockout on the same bracket, sits at the upper. Motorised, allow R2,500 to R3,800 a square metre, covering the tube drive, the handset and the setup on the day.

Treat these as planning bands. Small windows carry a minimum charge, since the brackets, tube and fitting labour barely reduce with the opening. Each window on your schedule is costed on its own at the measure and confirmed in writing.