Custom Cellular Blinds Downtown Whitby – Free Installation

It gets cut square, because a shade cannot be anything else, so the gap runs uneven down one side. Under about 5 mm nobody sees it. Past 10 mm it draws the eye every time you walk in, and an outside mount on the casing is the better answer, because the shade then covers the opening instead of sitting inside it and pointing at the lean.

A little, and less than the marketing anywhere suggests. The cells absorb some high frequency sound, so a room feels slightly softer with the shades down. Traffic noise is mostly low frequency and comes through the glass and the frame, not past the shade. If noise is the real problem, the window itself and a lined drapery panel over it will do more than any shade.

Yes, and the room decides the fabric. Honeycomb cells hold air, and in a bathroom that runs the shower twice a day they will hold damp air too, so a shade left closed against a cold window can stay wet inside for hours. Run the fan and leave the shade up while the room dries. We would keep blackout fabric out of a bathroom and use a light-filtering cell, which breathes better.

Usually. Internal lift cords stretch unevenly over years and they can be restrung on the same shade rather than replaced. Cordless spring shades sometimes need the spring retensioned instead, which is a bench adjustment. Fabric that has been crushed or water-stained is the case where restringing is money wasted, because the cells will not come back to shape.