Custom Zebra Blinds Streetsville – Free Installation

They do. A window shaded by a big maple until mid-afternoon and then hit directly for three hours needs a fabric that works at both ends of the day. We usually go to a 5 percent openness in the sheer band there. It stays bright on a grey morning and still cuts the late sun once the leaves come down in November.

Within limits, yes. The blind itself is cut square, so we size it to the narrowest point of the opening and the difference shows as a small gap at the wide end. A frame more than about 10 millimetres out gets an outside mount instead, which covers the whole opening and hides the discrepancy. We measure width at the top, middle and bottom.

The bracket screws are about 3 millimetres and they go into the casing, not through the face of it. If you ever take a blind down, the holes fill with wood filler and vanish under paint. We work into the top inside edge where nothing shows. On a casing with a decorative profile the bracket comes back to the flat section.

Yes, but gently. A drop of dish soap in lukewarm water on a well wrung cloth lifts kitchen film off the solid bands. Work in one direction and leave the sheer mesh alone, since it distorts if you push it sideways. Let the blind hang open until dry. In a kitchen we often suggest a vinyl roller for exactly this reason.