Advantages and Disadvantages: Raffstore or Roller Shutters?

The problem, however, is the color selection if you don’t choose an aluminum roller shutter cover, because then the only color left for the venetian blind if you want everything to be homogeneous is white-aluminum.

My window fitter said that aluminum covers are 3 times more expensive than conventional roller shutters, but then you can also have RAL7016, DB703, or gray-aluminum.

We paid €500 to match 4 plastic roller blinds (~12m²) in color to the venetian blinds (RAL 7016). Matching venetian blinds to the standard color of the roller blinds was significantly more expensive.

For summer, I can actually only recommend venetian blinds on the ground floor with south or west orientation, unless you want to live like hell (exaggeratedly speaking).

Absolutely. In summer, with the slats in a horizontal position, a lot of light comes in with a full view, but no direct sunlight enters the house. Even though I would have preferred to do without it, our floor plan and plot necessarily require venetian blinds, otherwise it would often be very dark.

Certainly more brilliant is natural shading in summer through appropriate architecture.

We paid €500 to match 4 plastic roller blinds (~12m²) in color to the venetian blinds (RAL 7016). Matching the venetian blinds to the standard color of the roller blinds was significantly more expensive.

Absolutely. In summer, with the slats in a horizontal position, a lot of light comes in with a full view, but no direct sunlight enters the house. Even though I would have preferred to do without them, our floor plan and property absolutely require venetian blinds, otherwise it would often be very dark.

More brilliant is certainly natural shading in summer through appropriate architectural design.

For us, there would have been 14 matches. The standard gray of the roller shutters to the white-aluminum of the venetian blinds simply doesn't need to be matched anymore. I have seen it myself with the samples from the window manufacturer and at my right neighbor.

But if you use RAL7016, there's no other way.

We have venetian blinds facing southwest including adjacent corner windows and roller shutters in the other rooms (bedroom, bathroom, etc.).

The venetian blinds are connected to the wind sensor, which triggers at wind force 7. This happens 1-2 times a year. We even had the electrician come again because we thought it was broken. But no, an average storm simply doesn’t reach wind force 7.

However, there were experiments that showed no problem up to wind force 10. Officially, wind force 7 applies. But that applies to flat slats with cable. We have special rails (not the glued ones, which I find ugly. Instead, it looks as if the venetian blinds are recessed into the reveal) and S-slats. This is quite sturdy and provides sufficient darkness for a living room.

The S-slats can be adjusted so that they indirectly direct light to the ceiling. It doesn’t heat up, but it is nicely bright.

Definitely more expensive, but also definitely better for living spaces. And you really have to be careful about overheating in a new building because of the prescribed insulation. That’s not only a problem in summer.

Roller shutters only provide burglary protection in that they create an additional noise source when entering. Otherwise, there are disillusioning videos about roller shutters on the internet. It's just plastic or soft aluminum, tongue and groove don't even withstand the tensile stress when the shutter is frozen. ...we've already been through it all...not the break-in but halved roller shutters

My window installer said that Alu armor is 3 times more expensive than conventional roller shutters, but you can get RAL7016, DB703 or gray aluminum.

that's just not true... We had roller shutters in aluminum for 4 doors and 1 wide window at an additional cost of €400 (net) compared to plastic. Overall.

We have venetian blinds with Z-lamella everywhere.... aside from the fact that the Z-lamella is significantly more stable than a regular lamella, we would never choose anything else again. With full sunlight from the south and west, the rooms remain pleasantly tempered and it is anything but dark in the children's rooms or throughout the whole house.....