The everyday answer for new-estate glass — sunscreen where the view matters, blockout where it doesn't need to get in at all.
Sunscreen fabric (in 3%, 5% or 10% openness) cuts glare and UV while keeping the garden or fairway 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 the standard choice for the big glass most Ruimsig homes are built around.
Blockout fabric does the opposite job: total dark for bedrooms, nurseries and media rooms, plus a genuine insulating layer against Highveld summer heat and winter cold. It's the fabric to reach for anywhere the goal is "no light at all," not "less light."
02Most bedrooms with a garden or street-facing view end up running a double roller — blockout for night, sunscreen for day, on the same headrail. It's the practical middle ground between wanting the light and wanting to actually sleep in.
03Chain control with a wall-anchored tensioner as standard, spring-assist for a lighter action, or fully motorised for wide or hard-to-reach windows — see our note on motorised automation for linked, multi-blind runs across a stacking-door wall.
Very wide spans — beyond roughly 3m of unbroken fabric — need either a central join line or a second, linked blind. Estate homes with heritage-style detailing sometimes suit a timber venetian better than a roller.
From Eagle Canyon's fairway-facing glass to Constantia Kloof's older window openings, sunscreen and blockout rollers are the everyday answer on almost every street we measure.
Sunscreen weaves on wide fairway-facing glass.
Read moreDouble rollers — blockout and sunscreen — for family bedrooms.
Read moreRollers on the big ridge-view openings, alongside our venetians.
Read moreMade-to-measure fits for older, non-standard window sizes.
Read moreFree in-home measure, written per-window quote, no pressure.