Custom Cellular Blinds Bolton – Free Installation

Yes, and they are one of the few products that look right there. We have fitted them down to roughly 150 mm wide. On a sidelight the shade usually mounts to the door frame or the glass stop with small brackets, so no holes go into the face of the trim. Cordless is the only sensible lift at that width, because a chain on a shade that narrow tangles constantly.

On the casing rather than in the reveal, in most cases. A tilting sash brings the frame into the room and an inside mounted shade either comes with it or gets pinned against the glass. Mounted outside on the face of the trim, the shade sits clear and you can tilt the window with the shade down. Some sashes only tilt a little and change the answer, so we try each one at the measure.

Only in how it behaves, not in how it lasts. A shade hanging free below a fan lifts and settles as the air comes off the blades, and on a wide one you get a slow flap that some people cannot ignore once they have noticed it. A hold-down bracket at the sill stops it dead. On an outside mount where there is no sill to fix to, a heavier bottom rail does the same job.

Down on the sun side, up everywhere else. A closed shade keeps direct sun off floors and furniture through the hottest weeks, which is the whole point of leaving it that way. What you do not want is every shade in the house shut for a month with the air conditioning off, because the pocket between fabric and glass gets genuinely hot and that is hard on the cloth over enough summers.