Day-night blinds
The same roller hardware, banded — tune light and privacy without dropping the whole blind.
Day-night blinds →Fabric — the decision that matters most
Blockout gives you a true dark room: nurseries, main bedrooms, media rooms, and anyone working shifts. It also carries a genuine thermal benefit, acting as an insulating layer against summer heat and winter cold.
Sunscreen fabric (openness factor 3%, 5% or 10%) is mesh weave that cuts glare and UV while keeping the view — the standard answer for the big open-plan glass typical of newer estate homes. The lower the openness percentage, the more heat and glare it blocks, at a small cost to the view. During the day it gives privacy; at night, with the lights on inside, it reverses — pair it with a blockout layer or curtains in bedrooms.
Light-filtering fabric sits between the two: it softens light and gives full privacy without the view.
Options worth knowing about
- Double roller (day & night): a blockout and a sunscreen fabric on one bracket — the practical answer for a bedroom that also wants a view during the day.
- Control: chain (fitted with a child-safe tensioner as standard), spring-assist, or motorised — see our motorised blinds & automation page for wide or high glass.
- Cassette or pelmet valances hide the tube completely, with the fascia colour-matched to your window frames.
- Wide spans: a single blind runs to roughly 3m of fabric width before we split it with a central join or motorise linked blinds — common on the wider sliding-door runs in The Wilds' newer builds.
Where rollers win
Modern open-plan homes, big glass, easy cleaning, and a budget that can flex from entry-level fabrics right up to premium wide-width and motorised systems. On very wide unbroken spans or in a heritage-cottage setting, a venetian sometimes suits the room's character better — we'll say so honestly at the measure.
How wide can one roller blind go?+
Roughly 3m of fabric width before the tube starts to deflect and the fabric tracks off-centre. Past that we either split the opening into two blinds with a central join, or link motorised blinds so they move together off one button — which is what most of the wide sliding-door runs in The Wilds end up needing.
Will a sunscreen give us privacy at night?+
No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. During the day a sunscreen reads as privacy because it is brighter outside than in; after dark with the lights on, that reverses and you can be seen. Bedrooms and bathrooms want blockout, or a double bracket carrying sunscreen and blockout on the same window.
Chain, spring or motor?+
Chain is the default and comes with a child-safe tensioner fitted as standard. Spring-assist suits small and mid-size windows where you want nothing hanging at all. Motors earn their place on wide, high or hard-to-reach glass — the windows that otherwise quietly stop being used.
Motorisation
For the spans a chain can't handle, and the high glass nobody reaches twice.
Motorised blinds →
Cellular blinds
Where the room needs insulation as much as it needs shade.
Cellular blinds →Fitting rollers across Pretoria East's newer estates
Blockout and sunscreen rollers go up the same way in every estate we cover — wide living-room glass in Woodhill Golf Estate, first-fit new builds in Six Fountains, family homes in Boardwalk Meander, and the double-volume glazing typical of Mooikloof.