Automation
Motorised blinds & automation for Eye of Africa homes
Tubular motors inside the blind, controlled by remote, app, schedule or sensor — the premium upsell on every product line, and on the wide or high glazing common out here, often the only practical option.
One button, every blind
Motorisation isn't just convenience — on a fairway-facing home with a run of stacking doors, a double-volume window, or an exterior product exposed to open ground, it's often the only practical way to operate a blind at all. A single remote or app can run every blind in the house, and sensors take over the rooms and elevations you don't want to think about daily.
Power options
- Rechargeable battery motors — no wiring, retrofit-friendly, charged every few months. The default for existing homes and additions.
- Wired 220V motors — permanent, no charging, the right call for new builds, big/heavy systems and exterior products. Needs an electrician and some planning at build stage.
Control that matches how you actually live here
A handset remote for a single room; an app so you can check "did I leave the west blinds up?" from the office; schedules that drop the fairway-facing blinds at 15:00 in summer; and — the one that matters most on open ground — wind sensors that retract awnings and exterior screens automatically before a highveld gust or storm reaches them. Sun sensors do the same job for interior comfort, dropping shading on the hardest-hit elevations without you lifting a finger.
Where it's essentially required
Spans too wide or heavy for a chain; blinds above stair voids or double-volume glazing; concealed ceiling-recess systems; and every external venetian, awning or zip screen on this estate, full stop — an exposed exterior product without a wind sensor is a liability waiting for the first serious highveld storm.
Practical honesty
No dangling chains means motorisation is the most child-safe operation there is. Quality motors are quiet, not silent, and carry multi-year guarantees; battery motors need that periodic charge, which we'll set clear expectations on at quote stage rather than let you discover later.
Talk through what needs a motor
Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, no obligation.
Book your free measureWhere we fit them
Motorisation across the Eye of Africa side of Midvaal
One remote, every blind — a spec we fit just as often outside the estate boundary as inside it. The same app, schedule and wind-sensor control goes into homes in Walkerville, Meyerton, Kliprivier and Henley-on-Klip.
Free to read, nothing to fill in
The Eye of Africa Sightline Handbook
Motorisation earns its place fastest on exterior products and glass you cannot reach. The Handbook explains where that applies on a fairway-facing house, and the honest catch — power, and the route to it.
- Solstice sun bearings and midday angles for this latitude, with sources
- North, south, east and west — which room suffers, and when
- What we'd fit on each face, and the honest catch with each
- Five things only a tape measure at the window can settle
