Zip Screens & Outdoor Rooms

The zip difference

The fabric edge is welded into a zipper that runs captive in aluminium side channels — no flapping, no gaps, real wind resistance. Ordinary drop rollers flap and escape their guides; a zipped screen holds tension through serious wind, which is the argument for anything exposed on a Stellenbosch hillside or valley deck, whether it's a summer gust funnelling down from Jonkershoek or a proper winter storm.

Fabric choices

• Sunscreen mesh (various openness) — view out, glare and UV down, insects out, daytime privacy in
• Clear PVC / crystal panels — a wind-and-rain-proof patio enclosure that keeps the vineyard view: a proper winter braai room
• Blockout options for an outdoor cinema evening or a brutal west-sun kill

Where they sell

Patio and braai-room enclosures on family homes and wine-estate properties, wind suppression on exposed hillside or valley-facing positions, estate homes wanting enclosure without permanent building work, and tasting rooms or small function venues that need the option open in summer, closed in winter.

Practical notes

Motorisation is standard on wide spans, with a wind-sensor retract for exposed positions. Spans run wide — 4m-plus per screen is common — and channels are colour-matched to the structure or, where it matters, to an estate's architectural guidelines.

Fitting zip screens across Stellenbosch

Zip screens seal a wind-exposed deck in Jonkershoek Valley against a proper valley gust, close a golf-estate patio in De Zalze for a wet-weather braai, and turn a mature-garden entertaining space in Welgevonden Estate into a usable room through winter. On the exposed, terraced stands of Paradyskloof, that same wind resistance is exactly what an elevated deck needs.