Ground-floor extensions often feature roof lanterns or skylights to flood spaces with natural light. While this can transform a home, unmanaged light can quickly become overwhelming bringing glare, heat, and even sun damage.
That’s where our automated roof blind systems come in.
Using dimensionally stable fabrics and advanced tensioning technology, our blinds deliver flawless performance without compromising aesthetics.
You’ve invested heavily in your home, so it should remain comfortable and beautiful. Visible cords and sagging fabrics? Not with our flagship systems. They defy gravity, maintain a crisp finish, and integrate seamlessly ensuring your space stays bright, cool, and elegant.
Electric Roof Blinds
Electric roof blinds transform overhead glazing into a source of comfort rather than compromise. Tensioned fabrics stay tauter, eliminating glare, softening daylight and managing heat in summer and winter. The result is a calmer, more stable indoor environment beneath even the largest roof lanterns or skylights. Concealment can be built in at first fix for a seamless architectural finish, but the real magic is in the performance these systems deliver.
Our electric roof blind systems draw on the same engineering principles as the Hercules XL, Twin Athena, and Athena tensioned solutions, allowing us to shade most architectural roof lanterns up to 4 m wide and 9 m long with perfectly taut fabric. For skylights up to 5m wide and up to 6m long, the Artemis External system provides high‑performance solar protection by stopping heat before it reaches the glass. Together, these systems allow us to cover a wide range of roof glazing sizes with stable, reliable, tensioned shading.
Typically between 7-12 weeks from order, depending on the system and complexity.
Power options vary by system. Many of our electric roof blinds use mains‑powered Somfy motors—available in IO, RTS, or Zigbee—for reliable operation and broad compatibility. For projects requiring deeper integration with home automation, hardwired control options are also available. The Athena and Twin Athena systems additionally offer solar‑powered battery motors, making them ideal for retrofit situations or locations where running power is difficult.
Yes. We offer a wide range of tensioned fabrics, each selected for what you need to achieve. Whether that’s reducing heat gain, softening daylight, improving winter insulation, or achieving dimout or blackout performance.
A significant amount. This is where many roof blind systems fail: they simply don’t generate enough tension to keep the fabric stable overhead. The result is a compromise. No visible cords, but ripples along the zip side channels and waves across the fabric. Our systems are engineered differently. They start at three times the tension of typical roof blind products and rise to over ten times the tension in the Hercules XL, ensuring the fabric remains tauter, smooth, and secure across large spans without excessive sagging or distortion.
This is what our customer’s expect in their architecturally designed homes.
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