Custom Zebra Blinds South End – Free Installation

Better than most soft treatments, with two caveats. Specify a cordless or a short chain so nothing gets yanked, and expect the odd band to be marked or torn at some point. When that happens the fabric is replaced on the existing tube and brackets, which keeps the cost of a turnover repair small. Our own installs carry a 3-year warranty on the mechanism, which is the part that would otherwise fail first.

Easily. Narrow is not a problem for a zebra until you get down around thirty centimetres, where the tube gets short enough that the chain crowds the bracket. The thing to check on a basement window is depth, since you want roughly five centimetres for an inside mount. If the frame is shallower than that, we mount on the wall above and run the fabric past the opening.

Only the fabric needs to be out of the way, and that is a two minute job. Release the end caps and the tube lifts off its brackets in one piece, then goes back the same way. Leave the brackets where they are and cut in around them. Paint on a sheer band never comes off, and a dust sheet thrown over a hanging blind is how most of it gets there.

Almost always. What has usually gone is the clutch, the small mechanism the chain drives, and it is a part swap rather than a new blind. Fabric and tube stay. Occasionally the cause is simpler, a bracket working loose in drywall so the tube sits off level and the clutch cannot grip. We check that first because it takes two minutes.