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Grey cellular honeycomb blind fitted inside the timber reveal of a Newlands sash window, its hexagonal cells visible in profile against rain-beaded glass

Products · Cellular Blinds

Cellular blinds for the room that never warms up.

Pleated fabric forming hexagonal air cells against the glass — the best-insulating blind made, for a suburb that gets cold and stays damp through winter.

Trapped air, on a slope that needs it

Every Newlands house seems to have one room that runs cold and under-ventilated once the winter rain sets in — usually forest-facing, usually south-side, usually the room everyone stops using around June. A cellular honeycomb blind's trapped air cells sit as a soft thermal buffer directly against that glass, taking the edge off both directions: cooler on the rare hot afternoon, noticeably less draughty through a wet winter night.

The cells also absorb sound, which matters more than people expect on streets that run close to Newlands Forest and its own kind of quiet — a room lined in single glazing and hard surfaces reads every gust of rain against the pane.

  • Single cells for mild rooms, double cells for the ones that need real thermal work
  • Blockout cell fabrics give bedrooms genuine darkness with the insulation bonus
  • Top-down/bottom-up operation: privacy at the bottom, light and canopy view at the top
  • Cordless and motorised operation; the slimmest stack of any blind when raised

Specifier note

Skylight and shaped-window versions exist too — the cell structure holds its shape on an angle, which matters on the gable glass some of the newer Newlands extensions carry.

Keep claims honest

We talk about this in comfort terms, not invented numbers: a genuinely warmer room in winter, a quieter one on a rainy night, less draught off a cold single pane. No percentage claims — just a product that does a real, felt job in exactly the kind of room this suburb produces a lot of.

Where we fit them

Cellular blinds across the southern suburbs

Insulating honeycomb blinds go up every week from Newlands through to Claremont, Rondebosch, Bishopscourt and Constantia — the same fabric range and written per-window quote wherever you are on this side of the mountain.

What it costs

What a cellular blind is worth here

Cellular fabric is pleated into air cells, so there is more material and more assembly in it than in a flat sheet: R1,500 to R2,800 per square metre installed hand-operated, and R3,000 to R4,800 motorised. Choosing double-cell fabric, a header that lets the blind drop from the top as well as rise from the sill, or side channels, takes a window up its band.

Small openings carry a minimum charge, and a tall stairwell drop is quoted on its own because the cord run and the fixing are the real work. Where the complaint is a cold, damp room rather than glare, this is usually the product that earns its money, and the free measure is where that gets decided.

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