Video Highlights:
00:13 – So what are we transforming today?
00:45 – Blocking out the light
01:00 – Cheap plastic will leave your blinds sagging
01:32 – Time for a change
01:58 – Summary
Video Transcription
Hi I’m Jason from the company Blockout Blinds and today I’m here to show you another home transformation.
00:13 – So what are we transforming today?
We’re going to get that Roman Blind out of here and you’ll see what I mean in a minute.
Let’s have a look at this first photo, now what do you see in this? Well the customer has three roman blinds but I think you’ll agree that they’ve seen better days. Notice the blind down the back left in the back of the room and notice how you can see the light coming in from the side. The reason for this is that these roman blinds have been put inside the recess of the window and that’s a no no unless there is absolutely no other way to do it!
00:45 – Blocking out the light
Roman blinds are designed to go on the frame of the window and one of the beautiful things about a roman blind is that they can overlap past the edge of the window by as much as you want, hence this creates a great light stop. So these ones have been installed into the recess of the window which I really don’t know why.
01:00 – Cheap plastic will leave your blinds sagging
Now what you notice about the other two is they’re hanging funny and the reason for that is that all the cords have come undone at the back. The reason for this is that a lot of cheaper roman blinds, especially the ready made ones are made with a cheap plastic (crap for want of a better word) holding the string on the back. These plastic clips deteriorate with the sun and eventually just pop off and break and you’re forever fixing them. I used to have them on my roman blinds at my house which I inherited when we moved in and once a year I had to get them resewed in until eventually I got rid of them.
01:32 – Time for a change
This customer felt the same as they’d had enough of these cheap and nasty roman blinds as they looked awful and they didn’t even hang right. So let’s have a look at what we did and bang, yes we did put some more roman blinds in but what you’ll notice is that they look a lot neater, they are hanging beautifully and they have been installed on the frame of the window overlapping so you’re not getting the light shining in at the sides as you were in the previous picture.
01:58 – Summary
So there you go, sometimes people will change from the same blind to the same blind again, just updating to a newer version and as you’ll agree this customer really did need to so something and I bet they’re really glad they finally got around to something about it.
So there is another home transformation and until next time.
