Cellular blinds for Eldoraigne’s single-glazed rooms
Pleated fabric forming hexagonal air cells — the best-insulating interior blind made, and a genuine comfort upgrade for a home built before double glazing was standard.
Pleated fabric forming hexagonal air cells — the best-insulating interior blind made, and a genuine comfort upgrade for a home built before double glazing was standard.
Trapped air is insulation, and a cellular blind is essentially a soft thermal buffer built onto the glass. In a home like the ones common in Eldoraigne — original single-pane windows, big older rooms, a room above the garage that’s always the coldest in the house — that buffer makes a genuine, felt difference in comfort, in both directions: cooler in summer, warmer in winter, and quieter too, since the cells absorb sound.
Single cells suit milder rooms; double cells are the serious thermal option for a bedroom that bakes in summer or a study that never quite warms up in winter. We keep the comfort claims honest and qualitative — real insulation, not an invented percentage.
Privacy at the bottom, light and sky at the top — a genuinely useful option for street-facing windows or any room that’s overlooked. Blockout cell fabrics add real darkness to a bedroom or nursery on top of the thermal benefit; light-filtering fabrics suit living areas that still want daylight.
Cordless and motorised operation are both available, and the cell structure holds shape even on an angle — the same system that works flat on a lounge window also handles a skylight or a raked gable pane. It stacks to the smallest profile of any blind when raised, which matters on a shallower recess.
A honeycomb blind carries more cloth and more building than a plain flat panel, and the figures follow: R1,500 to R2,800 per square metre installed hand-operated, with single-cell fabrics at the lower edge and double-cell or blockout-backed fabrics at the upper. Motorised, allow R3,000 to R4,800 per square metre, which includes the motor, the control and the setup.
Read them as planning bands, not a quotation. A small opening carries a minimum charge, because the hardware and the fitting time hardly change with the size of the window. Every window in your home gets its own figure once it has been measured, and that figure is written down.
The insulating choice we fit most often in Eldoraigne's older single-glazed rooms and Irene's heritage village homes, and increasingly specified from the start in the new builds going up across Raslouw, Southdowns Estate and Centurion Golf Estate.
The measure at home costs nothing, the quote comes back written and priced window by window, and if cellular is wrong for the room we will tell you so.