Castec roman shade. 5% open medium gray Sheerweave Basketweave 400.

Shades Of The Future now offers a new product for skylight shading: an automated, battery operated, remote controlled shade, fabricated with double cell honeycomb material. These shades have a frame on all four sides. These skylight shades are extremely versatile and may be up to 48″ x 96″. They range in price from $700 to about $800 each. For a double honeycomb, battery operated remote controlled system, this is a very reasonable price. And remember, you save on the electrician because no wiring is needed. Room darkening, cellular skylight shade fabric, is now available. The minimum manufacturable width for the motorized version is 22″. This same skylight shade is available manual. See photos 2-4 at right. skylightinstallationinstructions

Battery operated skylight shade installed and partly open

Top photo is a Castec roman shade on sloped glazing. The material is Sheerweave sun screening. It may be fabricated into a roman shade or as a roller shade with a beaded chain control loop. If the shade is too large for manual operation, motorization will handle the raising and lowering.

This project (top) is in Portland, Oregon, at the Wells Fargo Bank tower, formerly First Interstate Bank. There are 60 of these shades, which are 65″ wide x 221″ long. They are operated by the building’s automation system. This is a large commercial project, but we can handle the simplest manual shade for a residence.

The fabric shown in the top photo is medium gray. The darker the fabric, the better will be the through view from the interior. Lighter fabrics will create more glare and reduce the view to the outside.

Battery operated skylight shades installed with double cellular fabric fully covering the skylight openings. Battery pack in corner of upper right side of shade, but not visible at this distance.

There are many fabric colors to choose from as well as densities of weave. The tighter the weave (as tight as 3%) the more sun block will be achieved. More open fabrics (up to 30% openness) the more view is afforded to the exterior. Openness sacrifices sun block.

Battery operated skylight shade, assembled from factory and laying on floor ready to install. Framed with fabric stacked. Comes out of the box like this except larger ones will have the frame knocked down for shipping.

We can supply the Sheerweave sun screen roller shades, that meets the interior specifications for Subway Submarine sandwich shops.

Shades Of The Future™ supplies finished sun screen products to fit your application. Call us to discuss your project requirements.

If you are looking for manual or automated skylight shades, we have them! They may be fabricated from sun screen material, as described above, Duette, one of the pleated shade materials, or black out products.  Duette cellular is available in manual only as a skylight.

Skylight shade, motorized,  shown partial blackout and sheer mode
Skylight shade, motorized, all sheer mode
Skylight shade, motorized, all blackout mode