Custom Motorized Blinds Bay Ridges – Free Installation

Two ways. On tall glass we would rather fit a plug-in or hardwired motor at install so charging never comes up again, and if there is drywall open we run the low voltage lead then. If the shade is already hung, the battery tube lifts out on a pole with a hook and charges at the counter. For a stairwell we prefer solving it once with a wired motor over booking a ladder every winter.

It does, and it is the sort of thing that gets missed on a quote. A long drop puts a lot of rolled fabric on the tube, so a 38 millimetre tube that is fine on a bedroom window will flex on a three metre drop. We move up to a 45 millimetre tube and a stronger motor, and the fascia grows a centimetre to cover it. Better to build it right than to watch a wide shade start tracking off line.

No. The motors sit on a low power radio band well clear of wifi, and pairing is one to one, so a neighbour's handset in the next unit will not drive your shades. Garage openers run on a different frequency again. The only real conflict we see is two of your own channels set the same by accident, where one button runs two rooms. That is a re-pair, not a fault.

Yes, and it is one of the better arguments for a motor. Each one holds a favourite position, so a single press sends the shade to the exact height you set, whether that is halfway or just past the sightline from the sidewalk. You can also stop it anywhere by pressing again while it travels. Setting the favourite takes about a minute per blind and we do it with you at handover.