Motorised Blinds & Automation for Brooklyn Homes

Tubular motors inside the blind roll control by remote, wall switch, phone app, schedule or sensor — the premium upsell across every product line, and on Brooklyn's tall veranda gables or wide living-room glass, often the only practical option. Reaching a chain three metres up an original stairwell window was never a comfortable job; a motor removes the question entirely.

Rechargeable battery motors need no wiring and suit a retrofit onto an existing veranda window — charge every few months via a USB-style charger, the default for apartments and character homes where running new cable is unwelcome. Wired 220V motors suit a renovation or extension, permanent and best for big or heavy systems and anything exterior, with an electrician involved at the planning stage.

Control layers scale with how far you want to take it: a single handset for one blind, an app for the whole house from the couch or the office, schedules that open bedroom blinds at sunrise and drop west-facing ones at three in the afternoon in summer, and sun or wind sensors that act automatically — the wind sensor being the safety-critical one on any exterior product, retracting an awning or zip screen before a Highveld storm does the damage instead.

Honest expectations

No dangling chains makes motorised operation the most child-safe option there is, and quality motors are quiet — not silent — with multi-year guarantees as standard. Battery motors need that periodic charge; we set the expectation clearly at quote stage so there are no surprises after fitting.

What motorising actually adds

There is no single motorisation price, because a motor is fitted to a product rather than sold on its own. Across everything we automate, the installed cost sits somewhere between R2,500 and R7,500 per square metre. A motorised roller or aluminium venetian on an ordinary interior window is at the bottom of that band; a motorised timber venetian or a cellular blind sits in the middle; and a motorised exterior system — external venetians, a shading roller shutter or a folding-arm awning over a terrace — occupies the top, because the hardware is engineered to live outdoors in Highveld wind and hail.

Sensors and control gear are quoted as their own lines rather than hidden in a square-metre rate, so you can see what the sun sensor or the wall keypad costs and decide window by window. Small openings carry a minimum charge, and the binding figure is the itemised one that follows the free measure, when we know how many motors, what they are driving and how they will be powered.