Commercial blinds

Comfortable, practical blinds for places where people work

Every workplace is a little different. In an office, you may want to soften screen glare; in a school, easy operation and suitable safety features matter; in a rented property, straightforward care is often the priority. We enjoy helping local businesses, landlords and organisations find window coverings that suit the people using the space every day. Tell us a little about the rooms and how they're used, and we'll help you explore practical options and arrange measuring.

Glare on screens

Low sun through an office window can make a monitor unreadable and send people hunting for a different desk. Blinds can help by cutting direct light and reducing reflections on screens.

• Light-filtering fabrics keep the room bright while softening the sun. They are the usual choice where people work at screens.
• Screen or woven roller fabrics let you see out while reducing glare, depending on the range.
• Vertical blinds let you angle the slats as the sun moves round, which suits large windows and glazed walls.

See roller blinds and vertical blinds for how each works, and our guide to blinds for home offices is just as relevant for a small business unit.

Easy to clean

Offices collect dust, and kitchenettes collect splashes. Hard-wearing, wipeable fabrics and slatted blinds are generally easy to maintain. Roller blinds can usually be dusted or wiped with a damp cloth, depending on the fabric. Faux-wood and aluminium slats wipe clean quickly, and individual vertical louvres can often be replaced if one is damaged. It is worth checking the care instructions for the fabric you choose.

Rented properties and landlords

Landlords usually want something neutral, durable and fast to fit. Plain colours in a hard-wearing fabric tend to stand up to a change of tenant, and a consistent look across a block or house helps. Think about what happens when a blind is damaged: fabrics and slats that can be replaced individually can save replacing the whole blind. Our guide to blinds for rented homes covers this from a tenant and landlord point of view.

If you manage several properties and want a consistent specification, we can talk through options and give a quotation for each one.

Shared rooms and meeting spaces

Where several people use the same room, controls matter. Simple chain or cord controls are familiar, but where children visit, cords are best managed carefully, with loops always secured. Motorised or cordless controls can be neater in shared spaces and avoid the loops completely. Read about motorised blinds if you have large windows or hard-to-reach glazing.

Think about privacy too. Meeting rooms with glass walls or street-facing windows often need something that obscures the view but does not make the room dark. Frosted or semi-opaque fabrics can help, depending on the range.

Fitting and measuring

Commercial windows often differ from domestic ones: large panes, deep frames, shopfronts, glazed partitions, and windows that cannot easily be drilled. A site measure takes the guesswork out and lets us check the frame, fixing options and any obstructions such as radiators, cabling or furniture. Tell us if work needs to be arranged around opening hours.

Blinds for specific sectors

Some workplaces have needs of their own. See our pages on factory and workshop blinds, nursing home blinds and hospital and clinic blinds.

Safety and paperwork

Where cords or chains are used, keep them out of reach of children and fix them with a safety device. BS EN 13120 is the UK standard for the safety of internal blinds. If your premises or insurer need particular paperwork about fabrics or fittings, tell us what you need and we will happily find out what is available for the product you are considering.

Getting started

Whatever the size of the space, it starts with a look at the windows. Book a free measure and we will visit, advise on the options, and provide a quotation before you commit. For an overview of every type we offer, see our blinds page.