One smooth sheet. Three ways to use it.
Roller blinds are the everyday answer for Saxonwold's windows — a single flat fabric panel on a tube, cut to the actual opening, in blockout, sunscreen or a double-roller pairing of both.
Choose your fabric job
Blockout, sunscreen, or both on one window.
The tube is the same. The fabric decides what the blind does — and most Saxonwold homes end up using all three, room by room.
Blockout
A coated fabric that stops light outright. The bedroom standard — full darkness at six on a summer morning, gone to almost nothing when raised.
Ask about blockout →
Sunscreen
A 3–5% openness mesh that cuts glare and UV while keeping the park view. The answer for living rooms behind the leaf shadow that still cook by four o'clock.
Ask about sunscreen →
Double & day-night
Two blinds on one bracket — sunscreen for the day, blockout for the night — or a day-night blind sliding sheer and solid bands past each other.
See day-night blinds →The Saxonwold fit
Made for windows that have settled.
A century-old house earns its character honestly — and hands its windows a few quirks in the process. This is how a roller blind deals with them.
Measured on site, never from a chart
Original sash and steel openings run slightly out of square after decades of settling. We measure every opening individually so the blind sits flush, without light gaps down one side.
Gentle on old timber
Inside-mount brackets sized to the actual recess, or a light outside-mount fixed to the wall rather than fragile sash frames — the free measure decides which suits your window before anything is ordered.
Child-safe as standard
Chain tensioners are fitted on every corded roller, and nurseries are steered toward cordless or motorised operation with nothing left dangling within reach.
Motorised where reaching is a project
Tall stairwell sashes and high gable glass take the same roller on a quiet motor — a remote, a schedule, or a sun sensor doing the reaching for you.
Judge the fabric on your own wall.
The measure visit brings the sample books to you — hold navy blockout and terracotta sunscreen against your own light before committing a single window.
Questions
Asked at almost every roller measure.
Will a blockout roller make the room completely dark?+
The fabric itself passes no light; a small halo can show around the edges of an inside-mount. For true bedroom darkness we size the blind to the recess carefully or run an outside-mount that overlaps the frame — the measure visit tells us which your window needs.
What openness sunscreen should a park-facing room use?+
3% is the usual answer here — it cuts glare and UV hard while holding the view of the trees. 5% keeps a touch more view and light for rooms that sit deeper in the canopy shade.
Chain, spring or motor?+
Chain with a child-safe tensioner is the everyday default. Motors earn their keep on wide, heavy or high blinds and in kids' rooms — and a double roller on one window usually motorises the blockout layer first.
Where we fit them
The blind we measure most, across the parks belt.
Blockout and sunscreen rollers go into more Saxonwold-area windows than anything else in the collection — from ridge-top sashes to village-street bays, cut to the actual opening in every suburb we cover.
Where a roller fits in
The Saxonwold Light & Shade Field Guide
A roller is the right answer more often than not — but not everywhere. The field guide sets out which elevation wants sunscreen, which wants blockout, and where something external beats both.
- The sun path over the parks belt, December and June
- Nine shading answers, each with its honest catch
- The sixty-year heritage rule, and where it bites
Get your quote
Free measure.
Written quote.
Zero pressure.
Tell us about the windows. A consultant calls you back, arranges a time that suits you, and arrives with the fabric samples you saw above.
Want a ballpark first? Pop rough sizes into the window list and we'll send a budget range by the next working day. Not sure how to measure? Leave it — our consultant measures for free and you'll get exact per-window pricing.