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Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration
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Dealer-fitted Bubendorff shutters are a premium solar product. Illustrations for a normal window often land in a similar band to other good solar rollers, with wide patio openings climbing well past a single-window price.
The illustration
Dealer-fitted Bubendorff shutters are a premium solar product. Illustrations for a normal window often land in a similar band to other good solar rollers, with wide patio openings climbing well past a single-window price. The useful comparison is a complete solar shutter against a Somfy-driven curtain from another maker, on the same opening, with the same colour and the same guide fixing.
A cheap security brief, a listed street face, and any opening where a solar panel cannot see the sky. Also a weak buy if the only local fitter would be learning the product on your wall.
A worked opening beside Bubendorff solar shutter
The worked opening for Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration is 0.9 m wide by 1.5 m high, 1.35 square metres of glass. This figure puts 645 watts per square metre on the pane and uses a g-value of 0.7, about 610 watts into the room if the curtain is up. An opaque external shutter, taken as stopping 85 percent of that gain while it is fully down, leaves about 92 watts and keeps about 518 watts out. That is a noon figure for comparison. An internal blind does not get the same reduction. For Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration, use the noon figure to compare two openings on the same house, then let a measured survey replace the figure.
Fitted illustration for Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration: £1,441 at September 2026 prices, for this 0.9 by 1.5 m opening with a wired motor. The figure allows a front-mounted aluminium curtain and ordinary fixing. It does not include scaffold, a rebuilt soffit, planning drawings, or a new window. A second opening on the same visit usually costs less than the first, because the van is already there. Compare two quotes only when the slat, the box and the drive match.
Winter still applies
Winter figure for Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration: glass at 1.4 W/m2K, 1.35 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 0.18 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 24 percent of the flow leaves 0.14 kWh and saves about 0.04 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
Stop Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration if the only place for the box is a listed street front and nobody has written advice from the council. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
How to use the figure
The 0.9 by 1.5 metre opening inside Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a wired motor, and the illustration is £1,441. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £1,441 illustrates Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration for a 0.9 by 1.5 metre opening with a wired motor, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 1.35 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. Bubendorff solar shutter: a UK fitted illustration uses a wired motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £1,441.