Ducato is easiest to understand as three blinds sharing one fabric. Blinds By Post sells this plain roller in 5 colourways from £15.07, and each shade can be made up as a standard chain-operated roller, as a cassette blind with the roll boxed inside a headrail, or as a motorised blind with no chain at all. The shade names - Cholla, Fero, Moon, Night and Oxygen - are the curious part. The useful part is that the Ducato name is listed at three other retailers we track as well, so this is one of the ranges where comparison shopping has something real to bite on.
Who it suits
Start with the fitting, because that is the real decision here. The standard roller is the value route: right for any window where the chain can hang somewhere sensible and nobody minds the sight of the rolled tube. The cassette suits windows where the top of the blind sits in your eyeline - fitted outside a shallow recess, on stairs, above a sofa - and rooms where an exposed roll would slowly gather visible dust. The motorised version earns its premium on tall or awkward glass, behind worktops and baths, and in homes with young children, where removing the looped chain altogether is the cleanest answer to cord safety.
The fabric itself is a quiet plain, so it belongs where a window should behave rather than perform: kitchens, offices, landings, spare rooms. And if the names Moon and Night have you hoping for bedroom darkness, pause - a shade's name says nothing about its opacity, so check the listing before trusting any plain roller with a light sleeper, and look at a blackout range where darkness is the whole point.
The colours
5 colours available
This palette was named by someone with a wandering atlas. Cholla is a desert cactus, Oxygen sounds pale and airy, Fero gives nothing away, and Moon and Night pair off at what is presumably the darker end of the card. Presumably is the operative word: names this oblique are a mood board rather than a specification, and the swatches above are the only part to trust. Shortlist two or three, order the samples, and check them at the window morning and evening - dark shades in particular can read almost black on a screen and distinctly softer in daylight.
Price by your dimensions
Enter your window size. We round up to the next standard size, which matches how the retailer actually quotes you.
Price around its usual level (checked since 6 Jun).
Three make-ups means three price ladders on the same cloth. The from-price is the standard roller at the smallest size; the cassette starts above it for the same glass because of the headrail, and the motorised version above that for the mechanism. All three then scale with width and drop, so the meaningful move is to put your own measurements into the table above and read the results side by side - the gap between chain and motor at your window is the true cost of convenience.
How it compares
The Ducato name also appears at Blinds Direct, Roller Blinds Direct and So Easy Blinds, and prices differ between shops for the same window - each retailer cuts and prices its own make-up of the cloth, so which shop comes out ahead depends on your measurements rather than on reputation. Our Ducato roller comparison runs that check across all four in one view, and on a fabric sold this widely it is worth the two minutes. Inside Blinds By Post, Ducato's neighbours are the retailer's other plain rollers, which shuffle similar virtues into different palettes; the fitting logic above transfers to any of them, so the palette can make the decision.
A note on care
None of the fittings changes the fabric care: dust with a soft brush or a low-suction vacuum, blot marks with a barely damp cloth, and let everything dry before the blind rolls away. The differences sit at the top. A standard roller's tube can be dusted directly. The cassette prefers a duster run along its slot, so grit never rides into the housing. The motorised blind wants dry cleaning only around its mechanism. And on any chain-operated roller, watch for the fabric starting to wind crooked - a blind that wanders towards one end of the tube will wear at that edge, and re-rolling it square before it catches is a ten-second fix.
Likely the same fabric, at other retailers
Ducato roller blinds are sold under the same name by more than one UK retailer, and the price scales identically across window sizes - a strong sign it is the same fabric from the same supplier:
- Blinds By Post this page from £15.07
- Roller Blinds Direct from £37.91
- Blinds Direct from £41.52
- Wilsons Blinds from £44.60
- So Easy Blinds from £73.41
We match these on the shared name and an identical price curve, not an independent inspection, so treat it as likely the same fabric rather than confirmed - and check the specification and colour at each retailer before buying.