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Blockout or sunscreen, made to measure for every sash window and extension pane on the street.
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Wynberg · Plumstead · Diep River · Bergvliet
Southern Suburbs blinds: the oaks do half the work. We measure for the half they don't.
Made-to-measure blinds, roller shutters and awnings for the Southern Suburbs' Victorian villages, post-war family streets and Garden-City gardens — fitted after a free in-home measure.
Free in-home measure & a written, per-window quote
Heritage-overlay windows measured with the right consent in mind
Child-safe as standard — no dangling cords
The range
Twelve ways to answer a Southern Suburbs window
From a shallow Victorian sash in old Wynberg to a wide steel-frame window in a 1950s Plumstead lounge, this corridor runs more window generations than most. This is the full range we measure and fit for all of them.
Day & Night Blinds
Banded sheer-and-solid fabric that tunes light hour by hour without losing the garden outlook.
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Venetian Blinds
Aluminium or timber slats, the natural fit for a deep-set Victorian or Edwardian reveal.
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Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide sliding doors onto the garden, covered without a single seam line.
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Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
A genuine insulating buffer for the wet-winter months, with real nap-time darkness on top.
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Concealed & Recessed Blinds
Blinds that disappear into a renovated extension's ceiling until you need them.
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Skylight & Shaped Blinds
Fitted to the loft conversions and gable windows other suppliers won't quote on.
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External Venetian Blinds
Heat stopped at the glass, before it ever reaches an upstairs bedroom above the oak line.
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Folding-Arm Awnings
Shade over the braai and the table, gone again the moment the south-easter picks up.
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Zip Screens
Wind-proof mesh that closes a veranda or patio in without boxing it up.
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Roller Shutters
Sun, glare and total blackout in one motorised system on the outside of the glass.
Shading, not security. Ours are built to take sun, heat and glare on the outside of the glass. They carry no security rating; a security shutter is a separate product, and we will price that on its own if you ask.
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Motorised Blinds & Automation
One app, every blind — including the stairwell window nobody wants to climb a ladder for.
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How we specify for the Southern Suburbs
One corridor, three different windows
Ask an estate agent where the Southern Suburbs start and stop and you'll get four different answers — Observatory to Muizenberg, roughly, sheltered along the whole way by the same mountain spine. That shelter is the one fact every street here shares. Everything else — how wet the winter gets, what era the windows are, whether an exterior change needs a heritage sign-off first — changes block by block, and it's what we actually measure against rather than the suburb name on the listing.
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Sun over the canopy, not through it
At Cape Town's latitude the summer sun sits almost directly overhead at midday and low from the north in winter. The century-old oak avenues planted through this corridor shade most ground-floor glass for much of the year — but they do nothing for upper-storey, gable and dormer windows sitting above the canopy line, which is where the real midday heat load ends up.
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Distance from the mountain, not the suburb name
Rainfall runs a genuine gradient off the Constantiaberg range — homes tight against the slope carry a noticeably wetter winter than the flatter pockets further out. We ask where a house actually sits relative to the mountain before we spec an exterior product, rather than assuming one "Southern Suburbs" answer covers a corridor this long.
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Heritage overlay first, product second
Old Wynberg Village carries a formal Heritage Protection Overlay Zone — any visible exterior change, blind fixing included, needs to sit within the City's heritage guidelines before it needs to sit within a spec sheet. We ask the consent question early, not after a product's already been chosen.
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Three build eras, three glazing briefs
A Wynberg cottage runs small, often original sash and casement openings; a 1940s–50s Plumstead or Diep River home usually carries a single-glazed steel-frame window at a modest scale; a 1950s Bergvliet or Meadowridge Garden-City house tends toward a wider, plainer window on a single storey. Three different measuring briefs, on the same street corridor.
Scroll — the branch draws in, leaf by leaf, one for each pocket of the corridor.
How it works
Four steps, no surprises
The same honest process whether you're fitting one Wynberg cottage window or every pane on a Bergvliet family renovation.
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Enquire
Tell us about your windows, the rooms and what's actually bothering you — glare, privacy, a wet-winter draught — through the form or chat.
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Free in-home measure
A consultant visits with samples, measures every window precisely — original sash, steel frame or Garden-City glazing — and talks through fabric and control options room by room.
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Written quote
Each window priced on its own line, in writing. Nothing gets added later, and nothing has to be decided while we are standing in your lounge.
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Made & fitted
Made to order, then fitted by hand and the space left clean. Before we go, we run each one for you so you know how it works.
And the money, in the open: shading a house along this corridor works out at roughly R1,000 to R7,500 per square metre installed, according to the product and whether it is motorised. Small windows carry a minimum charge, and the figure for each of yours comes out of the free measure in writing.
About this service
What this service actually is
Southern Suburbs Blinds measures, makes and fits window shading across Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River, and Bergvliet and Meadowridge. Roller blinds, day and night blinds, aluminium and timber venetians and cellular honeycomb blinds are all built to the sizes taken at your own openings. Along a corridor holding Victorian cottage sashes, post-war steel frames and modern aluminium sliders on the same street, no other approach fits.
A job runs in the same order every time. You send the form or open the chat, and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure. At that visit every opening is measured, the window era and the bracket decision worked out on the spot, and fabric, slat and control settled room by room against the light each elevation really gets. A written quote follows with each window itemised, and nothing is manufactured until you have accepted it. Then it is made to order and installed cleanly by hand, with the operation demonstrated before we leave.
Whatever you send with your enquiry is used only to arrange that call-back, handled under POPIA.
Service area
Wynberg to Bergvliet, and the streets between
We measure and fit right across the Southern Suburbs corridor — these four pockets each have their own window story worth reading first.
Questions
Honest answers before you commit
Do you cover all of the Southern Suburbs, or just these four areas?
We measure and fit right across the corridor. Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River and Bergvliet & Meadowridge each get their own page here because their windows, era and rules genuinely differ — but if your street isn't listed, get in touch anyway; the free in-home measure works the same way everywhere.
My home is in the Wynberg Village heritage overlay — can you still fit an exterior product?
Often yes, but the heritage consent question comes first. Old Wynberg Village sits inside a formal City of Cape Town Heritage Protection Overlay Zone, and any visible exterior change needs to sit within those guidelines before we spec a product. We'll flag this at the enquiry stage rather than quote something that can't be approved.
Why do you talk about distance from the mountain instead of just naming my suburb for rain?
Because rainfall genuinely changes across a few hundred metres here. The Constantiaberg range forces winter rain up and over as it approaches, so homes tight against the slope get noticeably more of it than flatter streets further out — even within the same suburb. We ask where your house actually sits before specifying an exterior product's weather rating, rather than assuming the suburb name settles it.
Are your roller shutters security shutters?
No. Our roller shutters are a shading product — sun, glare and heat control on the outside of the glass, with a genuine blackout benefit for bedrooms. There is no security rating on them. Security shutters are a different product altogether, and we can price that separately if that is what you are after.
What's the difference between sunscreen and blockout roller fabric?
Blockout fabric stops light completely — the right choice for a bedroom where a nap or a night shift can't wait on the sun. Sunscreen fabric, usually 3% or 5% openness, cuts glare and UV while keeping the garden or street visible, which is why it's the default for living areas and any room that doesn't need full dark.
Do you offer child-safe options?
Yes, on every corded or chained product. Cord and chain tensioners go on as standard, every install. For a nursery or a playroom our advice is cordless or motorised control instead, so there is nothing hanging at child height at all.
Ready when you are
A Southern Suburbs window deserves a blind that was actually measured for it.
Book the free in-home measure. The quote comes back in writing, priced window by window, and you are under no obligation to go ahead.
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Tell us about your windows
Fill this in and one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.
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No call-centre hold music
A real consultant calls you back to arrange a time that suits your Southern Suburbs property.
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No price before we have seen the window
The quote is written after the measure. We do not guess figures down a phone line.