Custom Motorized Blinds Uptown Core – Free Installation

Slightly. The motor lives inside the tube, so the tube diameter goes up a step and the rolled fabric sits a few millimetres further forward. On a blackout fabric over a tall window the finished roll is thicker again. In a shallow frame that can push a motorized blind from an inside mount to a mount on the face of the frame. We check depth at the measure and tell you before you order.

Roughly once a year in a normal room, for a shade cycled up and down once or twice a day. Moving it more often, or running heavy blackout fabric on a wide window, shortens that. Cold rooms drain faster, so a shade on an unheated sunroom will ask sooner. The remote warns you before the motor stops, and a few hours on the charger brings it back to full.

Yes. A motorized roller has no chain, no cord and no loop of any kind hanging at the side, which is the whole safety argument for them in a home with small children. The remote can live on a wall bracket out of reach. If you are only doing part of the suite, put the motors in the rooms the child uses and keep chains with tensioners elsewhere.

The motor stays. It sits inside the tube and comes out when the fabric is replaced, then goes back into the new roll. Motors are the part most likely to outlast your taste in fabric. The one thing that forces a new motor is changing the size of the opening, since the tube has to be recut and a wider opening can need a different tube.