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Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs
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Caribbean Blinds is a UK maker of external blinds, awnings and pergolas, in business since 1987 according to its public site. This is the product to put beside a roller shutter when the household wants shade on a bifold without a solid metal curtain.
Where it fits
Caribbean Blinds is a UK maker of external blinds, awnings and pergolas, in business since 1987 according to its public site. This is the product to put beside a roller shutter when the household wants shade on a bifold without a solid metal curtain. A zip screen can reject a lot of sun and leave the garden visible. It is not a Rollladen.
Bifolds and lanterns where the view is precious and the complaint is heat and glare.
A worked opening beside Caribbean Blinds external shade
The worked opening for Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs is 3.2 m wide by 1.2 m high, 3.84 square metres of glass. This figure puts 495 watts per square metre on the pane and uses a g-value of 0.7, about 1331 watts into the room if the curtain is up. An opaque external shutter, taken as stopping 85 percent of that gain while it is fully down, leaves about 200 watts and keeps about 1131 watts out. That is a noon figure for comparison. An internal blind does not get the same reduction. For Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs, use the noon figure to compare two openings on the same house, then let a measured survey replace the figure.
Fitted illustration for Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs: £3,215 at September 2026 prices, for this 3.2 by 1.2 m opening with a wired motor. The figure allows a front-mounted aluminium curtain and ordinary fixing. It does not include scaffold, a rebuilt soffit, planning drawings, or a new window. A second opening on the same visit usually costs less than the first, because the van is already there. Compare two quotes only when the slat, the box and the drive match.
Winter still applies
Winter figure for Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs: glass at 1.4 W/m2K, 3.84 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 0.52 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 24 percent of the flow leaves 0.39 kWh and saves about 0.12 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
Stop Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs if the only place for the box is a listed street front and nobody has written advice from the council. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
How to use the figure
The 3.2 by 1.2 metre opening inside Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a wired motor, and the illustration is £3,215. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £3,215 illustrates Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs for a 3.2 by 1.2 metre opening with a wired motor, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 3.84 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. Caribbean Blinds external shade: where it belongs uses a wired motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £3,215.