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Still one of the best
blinds ever designed, the vertical blind has so much to offer. Not only can
it provide heat reflection, privacy, glare reduction, and dimout effects, but it
looks fantastic too, with 1000’s of new and exciting fabrics to choose from. Gone
are the days when vertical blind fabrics where aimed just at the office environment.
There are entire collections now devoted to vertical blinds for the home.
All blinds have louvers
that turn a full 180 degrees, offering total privacy if required (at night time),
or partial privacy during the day. All louvers can be draw back to one side to open
the window space completely.
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Angle the louvres for daytime privacy and light transmission
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Close the louvres completely for night time privacy.
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Draw the blinds back to one (or both sides), to open the window
space.
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Vertical blinds provide excellent privacy to sensitive rooms
such as bedrooms and lounge areas.
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Fabrics can be chosen to achieve a specific objective, such
as:
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Allowing light to penetrate whilst giving privacy
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Dimming-out a bedroom from early morning light
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Deflecting heat and glare from sunny rooms and conservatories
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Providing a ‘net’ effect during the day (allowing you to see
out, but people can’t see in)
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Note: this type of fabric will not provide privacy at night
time when the lights are on.)
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Extremely cost effective when compared to other window coverings.
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Excellent for large windows. The mechanisms of this blind
can cope with widths of 4.5mts!
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Easy to replace fabric. Once the louvres become undesirable,
they can be removed from the tracking, and changed for another cloth. This
reduces the cost of the blind, but also eliminates the installation cost altogether.
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Fabrics are available for both a classic look, and a modern
look.
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Available with curved and arched top tracks to suit almost
any window.
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Self-aligning runners ensure that louvres always angle in
the same direction.
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Easy to maintain.
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White, brown or anodised silver tracking
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127mm wide or 89mm wide (recommended) louvres.
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Left hand control
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All louvres stack back to the left hand side, and the controls
are also mounted on the left
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Right hand control
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All louvres stack back to the right hand side, and the controls
are also mounted on the right
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Split
draw
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Louvres will bi-part from the centre, and stack back to each
side. Controls can be specified as either on the left or right hand side.
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Reverse control
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Louvres will stack to the opposite side to where the controls
are positioned.
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Top fix spring clips (supplied as standard)
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This bracket takes one screw, and must be top fixed into the
ceiling or window recess. It is virtually invisible, and has a quick release mechanism
for simple removal of the tracking. It can be mounted with either a no.6 or no.8
screw.
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Plastic face fixing bracket
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100mm – This is the standard face fixing bracket. It can be
wall mounted, and will project the blind forward enough to allow the louvres of
either a 127mm or 89mm wide blind to rotate freely.
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115mm – This bracket is the same as the standard, but projects
15mm more, and is used mainly in situations where it is necessary to clear window
handles (i.e.- in conservatories) to allow the louvres to rotate.
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Shallow fix face fix bracket – Available in two sizes, this
bracket will allow a fixing to a thin framework or area where there is limited space.
It is not used very often, other than for special applications.
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The minimum size for a vertical blinds is 100mm, however,
it must be noted that at such a small size, there would only be one or two louvre
strips.
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The maximum size for a vertical blind is 5000mm wide. However,
we don’t recommend that the blind is made any wider than 4000mm, because installation
and maintenance becomes more difficult over this size.
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Doors
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Where vertical blinds are fitted to single doors which
open outwards, it must be noted that when stacked, the blind will take up approx
200mm(8”) of width in the opening. Often in these situations, we can supply an extra
piece of fabric for the customer to make a small tie-back to keep the louvres close
to the wall when stacked.
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Where vertical blinds are fitted to single doors that open
inwards, the same applies; however, the door is likely to open onto the blind causing
damage to the fabric. It is therefore recommended that the blind is made to fit
outside the recess, so the fabric can stack back past the edge of the recess.
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Unequal spacing of louvres
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Depending on the width of the blind, it may be that the first
louvre overlaps the second louvre slightly more than the rest of the louvres on
the blind. This is not a fault, it is normal and should not cause concern.
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Bedroom
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Lounge
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Can be made with curved tracking for bay windows. Perfect
for French doors and sliding patio doors
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Study
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Conservatory
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Excellent for privacy and light deflection
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Kitchen
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Also suitable in front of a sink window, but customers must
remember that this type of blind will take up most of the window sill space.
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Bathroom
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Like the kitchen – the blind may take up most of the sill
space
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Dining Room
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Perfect for French doors and sliding patio doors
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Utility Room
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