External blinds and auto arm awnings fitted over your windows — stopping the sun outside, before it ever reaches the glass.
Sun blinds fit on the outside of the window, not the inside. That single difference is the whole point of them: the sun is intercepted before it passes through the glass, so the heat never gets into the room to begin with. An internal blind on the same window can only deal with the heat once it is already there.
On a west-facing room through an Albury Wodonga summer that is the difference between a room you use and one you close the door on at four o’clock. They also take the glare off screens, and keep the afternoon sun off carpet, curtains and furniture that would otherwise fade.
Shading the glass from outside keeps the heat out of the room rather than trapping it against the window, which takes load off the air conditioner.
Cuts the hard afternoon light that makes a television or a laptop unreadable, without having to shut the room in and put a lamp on.
Carpet, curtains, timber floors and upholstery all fade in direct sun. Stopping it at the window is the cheapest way to slow that down.
An open-weave sunscreen cuts the sun while you can still see out through it, so the room keeps its outlook and its daylight.
Measured and made for the opening it goes on, and fitted to brick, render or weatherboard — on existing homes as often as new ones.
We’ll walk the outside of the house with you and work out which windows are actually doing the damage.
Get In TouchThe two we fit most are an auto arm awning, which drops down and angles out from the wall on a pair of arms, and a straight-drop blind, which runs flat down the face of the window. Both are external and both are made to the window.
Which one suits comes down to the wall and the window. An arm awning throws shade out beyond the glass and still lets you see out underneath it; a straight drop sits tight to the wall, which is the tidier answer where there is no room to project. Straight drops run in side guides or on wires so they hold their line rather than swinging in the breeze.
An open-weave sunscreen cuts the sun and keeps the view
Sun blinds fitted across Albury Wodonga — brick, render and weatherboard alike, on older homes as often as new ones. Fabric and hardware colours are matched to the window frames and the roofline so they sit on the house rather than stand off it.
Here is what each style does well, so you have a rough idea which way your windows will go before we come out and look at them.
Drops from above the window and angles out on a pair of arms, throwing shade clear of the glass.
Runs flat down the face of the window in side guides or on wires, sitting tight against the wall.
We come out and look at the windows themselves — which way each one faces, what the wall is built of, how much room there is above the opening, and which rooms are actually suffering.
Arm awning or straight drop, how open you want the weave, and the colour of the fabric and hardware matched to the window frames and the roofline.
Each blind is manufactured to the window it was measured for, in the style and colour chosen — not cut down from a standard size on the day.
Fitted by our own local team, not a subcontractor. Brackets set square, guides lined up, and every blind run all the way up and down before we leave.
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Because the glass is the problem. Once sunlight is through it, the heat is already in the room and an internal blind can only cover it up. A sun blind sits outside and stops it reaching the glass at all, which is why it makes a far bigger difference to how a room feels.
With an open-weave sunscreen, yes — you see out through it much as you would through a flyscreen, while the sun and the glare are cut right down. A denser fabric gives more shade and more privacy and less outlook, so it is a trade-off we talk through at the measure.
They are made to the window rather than bought off a shelf, and we fit them to brick, render and weatherboard, on existing homes as often as new builds. The one thing worth checking on site is how much room there is above the opening, which is part of what the free measure is for.
We’ll walk the outside of the house with you, work out which windows need them, and quote it. Obligation-free, fitted by our own local team.