Commercial Window Treatments

Repetition matters more than count. Forty identical openings is the best case: one spec, one measure pattern, one install rhythm. Forty windows where no two are alike is a different job at the same count, and the difference lands in labour rather than in fabric.

Contract-grade fabrics cost more per yard than residential equivalents, and a fire-rated version of a fabric is often its own line at its own price. Establish whether a rating is required at the start, because a fabric with no rated equivalent means starting the selection again.

A motor is priced per shade, so grouping shades on one remote saves less than people expect. The variable is power: battery needs recharging, plug-in depends on an outlet being where the shade is, and hardwiring is cleanest and gets planned with an electrician.

After-hours installation, glass high enough to need a lift, and restricted loading or elevator access all move the installation line. On a house this is a small part of the quote. On a commercial job it is sometimes the largest variable in it.

Yes. Offices, restaurants and bars, salons and studios, medical and dental suites, and multi-unit residential buildings, alongside the residential work. Installs are scheduled around the hours the space is open. See areas we serve.

For most offices, a solar screen shade at 3% or 5% openness — it cuts glare on monitors and blocks heat and UV while keeping the daylight and the view. Two exceptions: a conference room used for projection also needs a darkening layer, and a ground-floor office needs a closed fabric, because a screen gives no privacy after dark.

Yes, and on commercial work that is usually how it is done. Installs are scheduled outside opening hours, and large runs are phased by floor or zone so no area is out of use for long. Tell us the hours the space is genuinely empty and any loading dock or elevator rules.

Fire-rated means a specific fabric has passed a flame test — NFPA 701 is the standard most often named on US commercial specs. It applies to that fabric in that finish, not to a product family, so a roller shade is not fire-rated in itself while a particular roller fabric may be. Whether you need one is decided by your code official, your landlord or your insurer. Ask for the certificate in writing before you order.

Usually, if we can identify what is there. Fabric name, colour and openness are often on a label on the headrail. We also need the mount, headrail style, roll direction and control side, because those are the differences you notice from the doorway. Where the original fabric is gone, redoing one complete elevation usually looks better than adding a near-match.

Yes, both individual units and building-wide standards. Many boards specify what the street sees — usually a uniform liner colour — and leave the resident free to choose the fabric behind it. That only works if the standard is written down, because units get done one at a time over years.

Yes, and the case is stronger commercially than at home — a shade nobody is paid to adjust does not get adjusted, so a schedule does the job a person forgets. Decide early how power reaches each motor: battery, plug-in or hardwired.

About two weeks from approval to installation for most orders, the same as our residential work. Larger runs are phased, so the first section goes in while the rest is still being made. Contract-grade and fire-rated fabrics can take longer because they come from the mill.