One app, one remote, every blind on the ridge-facing side of the house — and on wide or high glass, often the only practical option at all.
Rechargeable battery motors need no wiring and retrofit into an existing Northcliff home easily; you charge them every few months via a USB-style charger. Wired 220V motors suit new builds and renovations — permanent, no charging, and the right choice for big or heavy systems and anything exterior. An electrician and a bit of planning is required either way.
Start with a handset remote — one remote, every blind on that wall. Add app control for when you're wondering from the office whether you left the west blinds up. Schedules drop the ridge-facing wall at three in summer without anyone touching a switch. Sun sensors do the same job automatically, and wind sensors retract awnings and exterior screens before a Highveld storm reaches them — genuinely safety-critical on anything exterior.
Spans too wide or heavy for a chain, blinds above a stair void or double-volume window, concealed ceiling-recess systems, external venetians, awnings and zip screens, or a full wall of glass with six blinds on it — motorisation is the practical answer, not a luxury add-on, in every one of those cases.
There is no standalone price for motorisation, because what you buy is a product with a motor inside it. Across the range fitted here, motorised shading spans roughly R2,500 to R7,500 per square metre installed: a motorised roller at R2,500 to R3,800, a motorised aluminium venetian at R2,500 to R3,600, and a motorised external venetian at R4,500 to R6,500.
Small openings are charged at a minimum whatever moves them, and a battery motor retrofitted into a finished room is a different job from a wired motor planned into a renovation. Which one your house needs, and what each opening comes to, is decided at the free measure and put in writing.
Motorised automation gets specified on the widest, hardest-to-reach glass across our patch — wide view walls in Blackheath, Fairland, Weltevredenpark and Windsor as often as on the ridge itself.
Free in-home measure, written per-window quote, no pressure.
