Motorized & automated
Motorized blinds and shades in Peachtree City, GA
One remote, one app, or nothing at all. Your blinds open with the sun and close before the afternoon heat hits the west windows, whether you are home or not. Fitted by the same family that has been doing windows in this area since 1998.
We bring the samples and the motors to you, and you press the button yourself. No charge for the visit, the measuring or the quote.
Styles from The BlindGuyz
See it move
Two patio doors, no wand
A living room with two sets of sliding patio doors. The vertical blinds on both are motorized: they draw across the glass together and open back up, and nobody walks over to a wand or a cord.
What we motorize
If it covers a window, it can usually be made to move
All of it made to measure, all of it seen in your own light before you decide.
- Roller shades
- The most common thing we motorize. Solar, light filtering or full blackout.
- Cellular shades
- The honeycomb holds heat out of a west-facing room. Top-down and bottom-up available motorized.
- Roman shades
- Soft fabric folds with the motor hidden in the headrail. Nothing about it looks mechanical.
- Wood and faux wood blinds
- Tilt-only or full lift, depending on the weight of the slat and the width of the window.
- Plantation shutters
- Motorized louver tilt on tall windows and anything above a stair landing.
- Patio screens
- Exterior solar mesh, insect mesh or clear vinyl on a tracked system. Wind sensor included.
- Sheer and natural woven shades
- Soft daylight on a motor. The lighter the material, the smaller the motor has to be, so these are among the easiest to convert.
- Skylights and high windows
- The case where motorization stops being a luxury and becomes the only sensible way to reach it.
How motorized blinds work
Three ways to run them, and most people end up using the third
Every motorized shade we fit can be worked by remote. What you add on top of that is what decides whether you have a convenience or a system that runs itself.
Layer one
The remote
A handheld remote or a wand on the blind itself. Works on radio, so it needs no wifi and no phone. This is the fallback on every system we install, and it keeps working when the internet does not.
Layer two
The app
Your phone controls one blind, a room, or the whole house. Group the west-facing windows and move them together. Check whether you left the front room open after you have already pulled out of the driveway.
Layer three
The schedule
Set it once and stop touching it. Open at sunrise, drop the west side in the afternoon, close everything at dusk. This is the part customers tell us they actually notice, because it happens whether they remember it or not.
Voice control through Alexa, Google Home or Apple Home sits across all three. It is the part people ask about first and use least, which is worth knowing before you pay for it.
Try it
One button, every opening
This is a covered patio with motorized screens on the front and the side, both on the same circuit. Tap once to close the porch in. Tap again to open it back up. The real ones move at about this speed.
Now: open
Two openings, one command
The front screen drops and the side screen tracks down the angle at the same time. Both motors sit on one circuit, so it is one button, not two.
Bugs out, breeze through
Solar mesh keeps the sun and the insects off the porch without shutting the air out. Clear vinyl is the option if you want to use the patio in January.
A wind sensor is not optional
An exposed patio screen needs a sensor that retracts it when the wind picks up. We spec one on every outdoor job, because replacing a screen is one thing and replacing the frame it tore off is another.
What you are choosing between
Motorized and smart are not the same thing
A lot of quotes say motorized when what they mean is a battery wand that goes up and down. That is a real product and it is the right call for plenty of houses. It just will not do the schedule, and you should know that before you sign.
Battery wand
Best for one or two hard-to-reach windows.
- Rechargeable battery in the wand or headrail, no wiring at all
- Up, stop and down from a handheld remote
- No cords, so it meets the cordless safety standard
- No app
- No schedule or automation
- No voice control
Norman AutoWand, Alta PowerWand.
App and schedule
What most of our customers end up with.
- Everything in the entry tier
- Phone app, grouping and room scenes
- Sunrise and sunset schedules, away simulation
- Alexa, Google Home and Apple Home
- Solar charging available on sunny windows
- Needs a hub plugged in somewhere central
Norman Smart Motorization, Alta BLISS.
Hardwired
New builds, remodels and oversized openings.
- Everything above, with no battery to charge, ever
- Right choice for oversized and heavy shades
- Planned into new build and remodel wiring
- Needs an electrician, so retrofitting into finished walls is involved
- Stops in place during a power cut unless it is on backup
Specified on the consultation, once we have seen the openings and the wall access.
Before you replace anything
Can the blinds you already have be motorized?
Sometimes. It depends entirely on what is in the window now. If the shades are in good condition and the brand has a motor kit that fits the existing headrail, adding one is a smaller job than replacing the whole treatment, and we will tell you so. The headrail decides it more than the brand does, which is why we ask to see the window before quoting a conversion.
Often the answer is no, and it is worth hearing that straight. Older shades, worn mechanisms and brands that never made a motor for that headrail all end up being more work to convert than to replace, and the result is a new motor doing its best inside tired hardware. We would rather lose the smaller job than fit something that comes back to us in a year.
Bring it up on the consultation. It takes about a minute to look at a headrail and tell you which of the two you are dealing with.
Kids, pets and cords
The safest window covering is the one with no cord on it
A motorized shade has no operating cord and no continuous loop, so the hazard that makes corded blinds a problem in a house with a toddler simply is not present. That is the honest version of the safety pitch: not that everything else is dangerous, but that this one removes the part that is.
The industry standard here is ANSI/WCMA A100.1, and products that meet it carry the Best for Kids label. Worth knowing: this is a voluntary standard, not federal law. A mandatory federal rule was issued in 2022 and then vacated by a federal appeals court in 2023. Plenty of competitor websites still call it the law. It is not, and the manufacturers we buy from build to the standard anyway.
What we fit
The motor systems we install
We are a dealer, not a manufacturer, which means we pick the system that fits the window rather than the one we are obliged to sell.
Smart Motorization & AutoWand
Norman
Rechargeable battery charged by a wireless wand that reaches high windows from the floor. App control and scheduling through ShadeAuto, with Alexa, Google and Apple Home. AutoWand is the simpler remote-only tier.
BLISS & PowerWand
Alta
PowerWand is the battery-and-remote tier with the battery in the headrail. BLISS is the app-driven automation line. Worth being clear which one a quote is built on, because they are different products.
Questions
Before you book
The things people ask us most often on the first call about motorization.
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Peachtree City, south Atlanta and beyond
We live and work and raised our family right here in the Peachtree City and south Atlanta area. As a family-owned, locally operated business, we treat every customer like a neighbor, because most of them are.
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