Sunscreen for a road-grid stand, whichever way it faces
New estates like Zonnendal and Camelot lay their stands out on a road grid, not on the sun — so the same aluminium sliding door design turns up on a north wall two houses along and a west wall next door, and the fabric that suits one doesn't automatically suit the other. A 3% sunscreen keeps a north- or south-facing living room comfortable most of the year; a west-facing one usually needs 5%, sometimes 10%, to hold the low winter sun without going gloomy in the afternoon. We confirm which way your glass actually faces at the measure rather than guess from the plot number.
Blockout, and the double-roller answer for a school morning
A family household usually wants one thing a sunscreen can't give: proper dark on a winter morning that doesn't clash with a 6:30am alarm. A single blockout roller handles that on its own. A double roller (day/night) pairs a blockout fabric with a sunscreen on the same bracket, so a child's room gets filtered daylight through the afternoon and total dark once the blind comes down at bedtime — no swapping blinds, no compromise either way.
Fitted to the wall you actually have
A brand-new Zonnendal or Camelot wall takes a straightforward bracket into fresh plaster. An established Windsor Park or Zoo Park frame, settled a little over the years, sometimes needs a different fixing altogether. Chain and cord tensioners are fitted as standard on anything corded, and we favour a face-fixed cassette wherever an older reveal is uneven rather than forcing a track into a frame it wasn't built for. Wide sliding-door spans either split with a central join line or run as motorised linked blinds, so no single chain is doing the work of three metres of fabric.
The right mesh openness moves with the stand, not just the window. The same 3% that suits an established, tree-softened street in Durbanville often needs recalibrating on an open new-estate road in Kraaifontein with nothing yet grown up to soften the glare — which is usually where we add motorisation rather than leaving a hand chain to do the work on a double-volume slider.
Most Kraaifontein roller measures start with the same question: which way does this particular window actually face, because the plot number won't tell you.
On-site measure, Kraaifontein- Sunscreen mesh, 3%, 5% or 10% openness
- Blockout fabric for bedrooms and early school mornings
- Double roller (day/night) on one bracket
- Chain, spring or motorised control
- Face-fixed cassette option for uneven older reveals
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