Having just fitted some NRF blinds and fly screens and made a minor cock up I thought I’d explain so you can take the mickey and maybe not do the same
The blinds come in 650mm height only and must be trimmed to fit if necessary. It was necessary.
No instructions (at all!) but only one way to do it so I cut around 30mm off both sides of the first blind for a perfect fit, lovely. The blinds have a blackout that lifts up and a fly screen that pulls down and they can be clipped together. The blackout has sprung lugs that drop into holes in the runners to keep them in place, squeeze the handles to release and adjust, more loveliness. Oh no… the blackout locks in place leaving a half inch gap at the top… eh?
It turns out the holes in the runners are not the same distance from their respective ends. This means the sides have a right way up and when trimming they must be cut off at the bottom. Sod’s law dictated that I had cut off the top along with its hole so I either had no hole at the top or, as I discovered, a hole half an inch too far down. No big deal, I can take off the sides, turn them over and side to side and make new holes in the right place where there are none.
Nice blinds… but why are the top and bottom holes not the same distance from the end (must be Italian logic)?
The blinds come in 650mm height only and must be trimmed to fit if necessary. It was necessary.
No instructions (at all!) but only one way to do it so I cut around 30mm off both sides of the first blind for a perfect fit, lovely. The blinds have a blackout that lifts up and a fly screen that pulls down and they can be clipped together. The blackout has sprung lugs that drop into holes in the runners to keep them in place, squeeze the handles to release and adjust, more loveliness. Oh no… the blackout locks in place leaving a half inch gap at the top… eh?
It turns out the holes in the runners are not the same distance from their respective ends. This means the sides have a right way up and when trimming they must be cut off at the bottom. Sod’s law dictated that I had cut off the top along with its hole so I either had no hole at the top or, as I discovered, a hole half an inch too far down. No big deal, I can take off the sides, turn them over and side to side and make new holes in the right place where there are none.
Nice blinds… but why are the top and bottom holes not the same distance from the end (must be Italian logic)?