Service area
Surf-village homes in full salt air — coastal-grade hardware as standard.
Kommetjie sits within our core service area — the same consultant-led measure, made-to-order manufacture and clean installation we bring to Noordhoek itself.
Local guide: The Noordhoek Wind, Light & Salt Playbook walks through which blinds suit which elevation here, with a two-minute ballpark tool and free-measure booking.
Kommetjie sits in the most exposed, saltiest air we work in. That single fact reorders the whole decision: here the hardware grade leads the specification and the appearance follows it, rather than the other way around. Close to the water we fit marine-grade aluminium and 316 stainless fittings, and we will say plainly which finishes we would not put on a sea-facing opening at all, because salt corrodes lower-grade components a great deal faster than most people expect.
It is not uniform across a house, either. Two windows on the same building can need different grades depending on how directly each one faces the sea, which is one of the things a measure settles and a phone call cannot. Inside, the same logic pushes wet rooms and any room breathing that air towards powder-coated aluminium venetian slats rather than timber, which will warp or discolour over time in exactly the conditions this village has plenty of.
This coast takes both of Cape Town's seasonal winds without much in the way of shelter: the dry, hard south-easter through summer, and north-westerly Atlantic fronts through winter with rain, heavy swell and gusts reaching severe gale strength. On a veranda that rules out an open-sided drop blind, which will be flogged out of shape in a season. What works is a zip screen, where the fabric edge runs captive in welded aluminium side channels so it holds its tension instead of flapping.
The trade-off is worth stating: a zip screen costs more than a simple roll-down blind, and its channels are fixed to the opening, so it suits a veranda you have decided about rather than a quick fix. Where a spot is genuinely sheltered an open blind is fine — but genuinely sheltered is rarer here than it looks, and we will tell you honestly which of your openings actually qualifies.
Living-room glass on this side of the peninsula faces west and south-west, which is the hardest aspect to shade well: low late-afternoon sun, plus light bouncing back off the sand and the water. A sunscreen mesh is usually where we start, because it cuts the glare and the ultraviolet while leaving the outlook intact, and the outlook is the entire reason for the address. Blockout belongs in bedrooms, a media room, or anywhere darkness is the actual requirement.
One honest caveat about mesh: it gives daytime privacy and none after dark, because once the lamps are on inside the transparency simply reverses. On a hero window the tidy answer is a double bracket carrying sunscreen and blockout on one headrail — view through the day, darkness and privacy at night, one clean fitting at the head of the opening.
How exposed the opening truly is, which sets the wind rating and sometimes rules a product out. How much salt that particular wall takes, which sets the hardware grade. Reveal depth and the fixing behind the plaster. Where power or a rechargeable motor can sensibly live on tall glass. And how a fabric actually reads in this light, which is brighter and flatter than any showroom.
We also fit in Sun Valley & Sunnydale, Capri Village, Fish Hoek upper and Simon's Town side.
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