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Do plantation shutters keep heat in?
Shutters help. They are not insulation, and anyone quoting you a percentage saving is guessing.
Skylights
Skylights
Roof lantern and skylight blinds, made to measure and motorised, no cords, no wires across the glass.
Roof glazing is the hardest thing in the house to dress well, and the place where a bad job shows most. We make blinds for roof lanterns, Velux units and pitched glazing, built to the exact recess and fitted by our own team.
The system we fit runs on a hidden belt drive inside a four-sided frame, there are no tension cords or support wires crossing the glass, so the lantern still reads as open sky when the blind is back. Fabrics are cellular, which means real insulation: less glare and heat in summer, less heat lost through winter.
Everything is motorised as standard, on mains, rechargeable battery or solar power, and controlled from a handset, a wall switch, your phone, or Alexa and Google.
- Roof lanterns, Velux windows and pitched glazing
- Hidden belt drive, no visible cords or wires
- Insulating cellular fabric, light-filtering or blackout
- Mains, battery or solar powered motors
- Handset, app and voice control
- Widths to 2,950mm, drops to 5,000mm
- White, dark grey, dark coffee or black frames
Why this system
Clean glass, cool rooms
Most roof blinds hang on tension cords and guide wires. Ours doesn't.
No wires, no cords
The blind runs on a hidden belt drive inside a four-sided frame. No tension cords or support wires cross the glass, so the lantern looks open and clean when the blind is retracted.
Insulating cellular fabric
Every fabric is honeycomb-cell, trapping a layer of air against the glass. It keeps the heat out in July and the warmth in through winter, the difference in a glazed extension is immediate.
True blackout when you want it
Blockout fabric paired with brush strips down the side channels gives a genuinely dark room, which matters in loft bedrooms and media rooms.
Built for large glazing
Floating ribs stack back with the fabric on wider units, so even a big lantern stays flat and taut with nothing hanging in the void.
In motion
See it retract
The fabric stacks back into a slim headbox at one end, leaving the lantern completely clear. Quiet enough that you'll only notice the light changing.
Specification
Sizes and options
- Maximum width
- Up to 2,950mm in a single blind
- Maximum drop
- Up to 5,000mm, or 6,000mm split-stack
- Recess depth needed
- From 40mm
- Frame finishes
- White, dark grey, dark coffee or black
- Fabrics
- Cellular light-filtering or blackout
- Power
- Mains, rechargeable battery or solar
- Control
- Handset, wall switch, app, Alexa or Google
Recent work
A look at the finish
Advice & Inspiration
Helpful before you decide
Buying Shutters
Plantation shutters vs blinds
We sell both, which makes this comparison easier to write honestly than it is for a company that only sells one of them.
Buying Shutters
Plantation shutters: a complete buyer's guide
This is the guide we would hand to somebody at the start of the process. It covers the whole decision in order, and links out to the detail wherever a topic deserves an article of its own.
How it works
Four steps, one team
- 01
Consultation
We come to you with samples, talk through the rooms, and show you what each style actually looks like against your own light.
- 02
Technical survey
Every opening measured to the millimetre, every out-of-square noted. This is where the final price is confirmed.
- 03
Made for your windows
Your shutters are built to your specification: material, louvre, tilt, colour and hinge, then finished and checked.
- 04
Installed by our trusted team
Our trusted installers fit them, tidy up after themselves, and show you how everything works before they leave.