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Blinds - Measuring & Fitting

If you are going to take the DIY route then the following links will provide the necessary know how for measuring and fitting your blinds.

Blinds - Technical Advice

Many of our staff have been involved in the blind trade all of their working lives and the experienced gained is invaluable. Please feel free to seek advice from them, we do not charge for advice and we will always give you genuine feedback.

Because we have our One Price Policy across all of our serviced blind and fabric ranges this allows us to make recommendations and offer advice without it seeming that we are merely doing so on the pretence of selling up.

Blinds & Child Safety

On a much too often basis the news reveals that another child has been injured or worse after they have become entangled in the looped cord of a window blind. We are very aware of this threat and endeavour to highlight the problems at all stages of service procedure.

We automatically incorporate components in our venetian and roller blinds that will break away should entanglement occur and thus disable the looping effect. As far as vertical blinds are concerned we can substitute the cord totally for wand operation although this means that only one way draw is attainable. In all instances it is very easy to include one of many types of cord cleat that we have available to tie the cord up and out of the way of the naturally curious young child. Our methods of manufacturing perfect fit eliminate the problems altogether as cord looping does not exist at all.

There is a government debate which has been ongoing for many years now on whether or not a forced ruling should insist that all blinds are manufactured or at least fitted with child safety features as standard. For us this cannot arrive soon enough. Several years ago we decided to take the initiative by implementing our own child safety standard and were astounded to find that 95% of Customers opted out and chose not to have wand operated verticals as they did not have the functionality of corded operation and even more surprising chose not to have cleats due to their negative aesthetic appeal! So now we are forced to offer safety accessories as an option and we are still amazed how few Customers want them, even with young children?

Ironically it is Customer demand, or at least in our experience anyway, that is holding back any trade initiative for a total child safety policy. So it seems that we will have to wait until the government force the issue onto the public.

Meanwhile we will gladly include child safety options with all of our blind ranges totally free of any charge, that is where we cannot incorporate them as a standard anyway such as venetian and roller. If you or your family and friends have existing blinds and are concerned that they are not child safe then please do not hesitate to contact us for advice. We are happy for anyone to pay a visit to either of our shops and collect cleats ,cord ties, tensioning devices and break away components free of charge - you do not need to have purchased the original blinds from us as all of these devices are universal.

Hopefully we can help prevent any further tragedies.