Outdoor Blinds
Outdoor blinds turn a breezy deck into a room you can actually use. Down when the southerly arrives, up when it passes, and the view stays either way.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Every one of those is fixable. It starts with getting the right cover overhead, designed for your space rather than pulled off a shelf.
Here is how that turns out
Screen works so well to shade from direct sun, also shields a lot of wind.
Jane Dingle · Taranaki
Real projects
Real outdoor rooms we have designed and installed. No stock photography.
Choose your system
Your local expert recommends the right system for your home, your site, and your budget.
The system most people have seen and asked for. One smooth pull, stops where you leave it, seals down the sides.
Built for the wider openings where other blinds run out of span.
Specified for exposed and coastal sites where wind and salt punish lesser hardware.
For a space where the blinds should disappear into the architecture when they are up.
Not all are built the same
Blinds live outside and move constantly, which is a hard life for cheap hardware. Lesser tracks bind and rattle.
Thin fabric stretches and clouds. Componentry that was never made for salt air seizes within a few seasons.
The parts you cannot see are the parts that decide whether the blind still works smoothly in ten years.
We choose quality over price. Your investment deserves hardware built for New Zealand conditions, installed by the team that designed the space.
Compare
Four systems, the same job, different engineering. Here is how they differ.
| Feature comparison | OmniSimple and strong | ZiptrakThe original | Enduro LivingMost popular | ArchiLuxeEngineered design |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operation | Gearbox operated | Spring assisted | Spring assisted | Spring assisted |
| Track system | Hidden in tracks | Track guided | Self-tensioning track guided | Advanced self-tensioning system |
| Motorised option | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Protected spline | Not applicable | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spline warranty | Not applicable | 2 years | 3 years | 5 years |
| Component colour range | Dulux powder coat range | Dulux powder coat range | Selection of 11 RAL colours | Any colour from the RAL range |
| Brackets | 316 stainless steel and T6 alloy | Cast aluminium | Marine grade aluminium | Aviation grade aluminium |
| Smart home compatible | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Double screen option | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| LED lights | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Fabric range | 35 material options, 4 mesh densities, PVC options | 35 material options, 4 mesh densities, PVC options | 34 mesh options, 6 mesh densities, no PVC option | 50+ mesh options, 7 mesh densities, PVC options |
Specifications are indicative and can change with supplier updates. Your expert confirms the current specification at your consult.
The detail
The technical detail, if you want it. Everything is confirmed with you at your onsite consult, against your space and your site conditions.
Pelmet, shown in white
The roller sits inside the pelmet
Side channel and zip edge
Bottom bar and centre lock
Roller bracket and hook
Bottom bar, anchored at the base
Bracket above the side channel
Bottom rail running in the channel
Balancer, groove bearing and centering slide rail
Hollow structure for strength and heat dissipation
Bayonet fitting and optional silencer bar slot
Nano strips reduce friction and noise
Cast end plugs at the base of the rail
Torsion spring with self-locking mechanism
Gravity bearing and steel plate
Cast aluminium cassette end caps
Single and double layer tube profiles
Four layer fabric constructionExtra detail
Colours shown are indicative only. Screens vary, and a powder coat or paint finish never matches a screen exactly, so ask your expert for a physical sample before you decide.
Specifications are indicative and may vary by site, span and wind zone. Your expert confirms the final specification for your project.
Before you choose
Some companies shortcut the materials and the finish to protect their margin. It looks the same in the brochure and on install day.
Three winters later, on an exposed New Zealand site, the difference is obvious. You do not discover it until the warranty conversation, and by then the cost tends to land with you.
Contracted assemblers, a sales team that never speaks to the installers, and work done to a schedule rather than to the house. Products installed in isolation from the rest of the space leave gaps, mismatched lines, and drainage that discharges where it should not.
One accountable team, from design through to install, avoids every one of those.
How it works
You do not need to know what you want before you call.
Where you are and roughly what you are thinking. We take it from there.
Your expert visits, measures the space, and gives you a considered design and a fixed price.
We handle the whole project through to the final clean-up, so you can tick it off your list.
Your area
You deal with one person who lives and works in your region. They know your area, your council and your conditions, and they see your project through from the first visit to the finished space.
Why homeowners choose us
We design around your home and how you actually live, not a catalogue.
Engineered systems built for New Zealand conditions and finished to last.
Installed by our own local team, to a standard we put our name to.
Backed in writing
No pressure, no obligation
Book a free onsite consult with your local expert. Whether you go ahead is entirely up to you.
Your local expert will be in touch shortly to arrange a time that suits. If it is urgent, call us on 0800 42 88 55.
