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Roller blinds measured for a wall of glass, not a single window
Sunscreen, blockout and double-roller fabrics, made to measure for Century City's floor-to-ceiling, canal-facing apartment glazing — with the fabric openness chosen for direct sun and water-reflected glare together.
Sunscreen for direct sun and canal glare together
Most calculators size a sunscreen for one thing: the sun coming straight through the glass. A canal-facing Century City unit gets a second source on top of that — low-angle morning or evening light bouncing straight off the water and back through the same window. A 3% openness that would be right on a landlocked street can still let through more glare than it should here; a lot of our canal-facing measures land on 5%, sometimes darker on units with a full-width water frontage, to hold the glare down without losing the view the apartment was bought for.
Blockout, and the double-roller answer for north-facing bedrooms
Century City's apartments are built north-facing on purpose — it's the right call for keeping the worst of the summer south-easter off the glass, but it also means a bedroom can stay bright well past what feels like a reasonable bedtime. 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 the room gets filtered light and a view through the day and total dark once the blind comes down — no swapping blinds, no compromise either way.
Fitted to the aluminium frame your building already has
Chain and cord tensioners are fitted as standard on anything corded, and brackets are chosen to sit cleanly on the black or grey aluminium framing most Century City blocks were built with, rather than forced onto a profile it wasn't designed for. Because several units in the same building typically share near-identical window and door sizes, a consultant who's already measured one unit in a block often already knows most of the openings in another before they arrive — which tends to make the whole process quicker than a one-off house.
The right openness moves with the aspect, not just the window size. The same 5% that suits a full canal frontage on this site needs recalibrating a short drive up the coast — Bloubergstrand's beachfront units take a different kind of glare, straight off open ocean rather than a still canal, which is usually where we push the sunscreen darker still.
The canal gives every window a second sun — once through the glass, once off the water — which is the first thing we measure for, not an afterthought.
On-site measure, Century City- Sunscreen mesh, 3%, 5% or 10% openness
- Blockout fabric for north-facing bedrooms
- Double roller (day/night) on one bracket
- Chain, spring or motorised control
- Brackets matched to your building's aluminium frame profile
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