James | Zeus Electric Roof Lantern Blinds & Zipped Window Blinds

The Zeus Electric Roof Lantern Blind

The Zeus Large Electric Roof lantern blind boasts a symmetrical look with easy to clean cassette boxes at both ends. Inside the cassette boxes, the engineering brilliance of the Zeus Electric Roof Lantern Blinds | No Visible Guidewires (windowtreat.co.uk) is hidden away from dust, flies and view allowing it to blend into your lantern’s upstand. (White is standard but any RAL colour can be offered).

James had two Zeus electric roof lantern blinds installed in His home, we contacted James for some feedback on the Venus electric roof lantern blind.

To start with, James gave some back story: “What I want to do, we wanted to just simply extend the garage to house some of the cars that I’m lucky enough to have, so if I can't have them at home, I don't want them in third party storage, then I don't want to have them at all.

So, what we decided to do was to extend the garage so that the extension is visible from the rear, not from the front and the reason we wanted blackout blinds was mainly because I think it gives excess sunlight when the garage is not being used or doesn’t have people in it effectively, and I don't want the materials inside the cars or the cars to degrade through sunlight so, that led to a motorized system for us that was ideally blackout that's when you guys, WindowTreat came along and then the thoughts started well if it's up there, perhaps you should be on the windows as well because it makes life a lot simpler; pushing a button and everything closes down. I think it developed from there as well, as at the point of the build, for me - what I wanted in the garage from the out and also the long term is I actually do like shutters and I do like blinds, but I don't want to see them when they're up, I don't really want to see them when they're actually down I think depending on how they are built-in. They can either be attractive or unattractive and for me, the system that you've come up with integrates best in the framework of the window or the lantern so that it doesn't look ugly and it appears when I want it to appear and almost magically disappears when I don't want it to appear. So, I think with that in mind it's a sort of multi-purpose. Today it's a garage that stores some vehicles, but long term as I get to be an old man and I decide that I don't want to have all these vehicles for whatever reason, then it gives us an option to change or use that space as an exercise area, an office, whatever type of dwelling that we might find suitable. So, it's sort of a now versus a long time thinking on what we tried to do with that space and the use of the blinds.”

The million-dollar question, we asked if James would recommend WindowTreat and the Venus Electric roof lantern blind to His friends and family: “Yes, I would. I think that the system's extremely good I think the care, the fitting, the end product I think it is excellent it’s fit for purpose I think whether you're looking at something to a garage, perhaps we will be considering it, almost certainly considering getting it as part of our office extension as well as in perhaps some of the meeting rooms. Absolutely, I would say to people: To do the proper job, you need to consider it early on in the build because there are things you need to consider and I think Chris is pretty clued up on what you need to consider particularly if you're doing a self-build like me, so you're doing a self-type build where we design the product, and I think the thing that you need to consider is strength around the boxes or the windows itself and if you take things away to hide the blinds you need to consider how you might strengthen that and if you consider it early on you can do. So, the answer question is yes, I definitely would but don't make an afterthought.”