Panel Glide Blinds, Green Point

Built for Green Point's wide glazing

Open-plan apartments built after the Stadium and marina developments tend to run one continuous sheet of glass across the living and dining area, often onto a balcony slider three or four metres wide. A roller blind can't cover that in one clean sheet, and vertical blind vanes read as fussy against that scale of glass. Panel glide blinds are the product architects actually spec for it.

How it works

Wide flat fabric panels, typically 400–600mm each, hang from a multi-channel overhead track and slide sideways, stacking neatly behind one another at one end of the opening. Sunscreen fabric keeps the harbour or marina view intact while cutting glare; blockout panels give a bedroom-grade dark end wall if you want one section fully covered.

Stack space, planned at quote stage

The one real constraint is wall space beside the opening for the panels to stack into when fully open — in a tighter apartment layout that might mean fewer, wider panels rather than many narrow ones. We measure the stack zone as carefully as the glass itself at the free visit, so there's no surprise about how much wall the system actually needs.

Versus vertical blinds

Vertical blinds are the budget-friendly volume option and still make sense for a straightforward sliding door — but on the wide, uninterrupted glazing walls common in Green Point's newer stock, panel glides give a cleaner architectural line and don't clatter in the wind the way narrow vertical vanes can through an open door.

The number you came for

Panel glides are quoted on the area they cover. R1,000 to R1,600 covers a square metre of drawn-by-hand system hung, with track length, panel count and fabric placing a wall inside that spread. Motorised, R2,500 to R3,800 covers the same square metre — which is where most wide sliding-door walls end up, once the run is long enough that pulling panels by hand stops being a pleasure.

A short run still needs a full track, its carriers and a proper fixing survey, so a minimum kicks in on small openings. The spread is for planning only: your wall is measured, the stack space worked out and the price given on paper first.

Fitting panel glide blinds across the precinct

The same free in-home measure covers panel glide blinds throughout Green Point's closest neighbours — wide glazing in Mouille Point and Sea Point apartments, and the big view walls of Fresnaye's hillside homes.