Two different shading problems in one suburb
Broadacres is dense by the standards of this corner of Johannesburg — cluster developments and walled estates packed around a single low-rise shopping node. Most homes have at least one elevation close to a neighbouring wall, so shading is decided window by window rather than facade by facade. One room bakes, the room next to it never sees direct sun at all.
Cedar Lakes is the opposite problem. The estate is built around ten interconnected lakes, and homes face the water rather than the street. Open water reflects, so a lakeside room gets the sun twice: once from the sky and once off the surface, low and straight into the glass through the whole late afternoon.
How we specify each
- Cluster homes: a proper per-window audit at the measure. There is no point paying for heavy shading on an elevation that a neighbour's wall already shades all day.
- Lake-facing rooms: sunscreen rollers with a low openness factor, because reflected glare off water is relentless and a 10% weave will not touch it.
- Bedrooms: blockout, with side channels or a generous overlap where the reveal is shallow — which in newer clusters it usually is.
- Small courtyards and patios: a compact folding-arm awning, or a zip screen where the space is too tight for an awning to project usefully.
- Body corporate rules: anything on the outside gets specified in restrained profiles and colours, and we give you the detail in writing for the trustees.
Uniform across a scheme
Where a body corporate wants a consistent look across units, we quote a single specification the whole scheme can order against — same fabric, same colour, same profile — while each owner still pays for their own windows. It is the least painful way to keep a cluster looking coherent.
Before you pick a fabric, read the sun. Our free dossier Terracotta & Glass sets out what the Highveld sun does to each elevation through the year, what we would fit on it, and the honest catch with every option — with sources.
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Most asked for here
- Roller blinds — blockout for bedrooms, sunscreen where the view matters.
- Motorised blinds — for the high glass nobody reaches by hand.
- Folding-arm awnings — patio shade that retracts before a storm.
- Day/Night blinds — privacy after dark, the view by day.
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Free measure
Free measure in Broadacres & Cedar Lakes
Tell us which rooms and roughly how many windows. One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange a free in-home measure with samples.
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One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.
What happens next
- A consultant phones you back to understand the rooms and agree a time.
- The measure happens at your home, with samples in the actual light of the room.
- You get a written quote, per window, that you can cut down or add to.
- Only then does anything get made. Nothing is ordered off a phone call.