If You’re Thinking of Buying Cheap Blinds off Amazon- Please Watch This First!
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Published 2023-10-27
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All Comments (21)
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I bought two 11 dollar metal blinds for my garage two years ago from Walmart and they have worked perfectly. You installation tips are great and will use them going forward.
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I shopped for blinds just st a month ago and passed out. Put all new windows in my house and wanted to update the levolor brand I had with new colors. The wingnut before me put black blinds in. New ones today were damn near the price of my windows. Phicking insane.
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Good video. Thanks! I need help getting my old blinds off the window - specifically the header piece. Do you have a video for that? Looking for a great thermal up down/down up shade in US that is in this same price range.
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We bought levolor ones from Lowe's that have been great, somewhere between 50 and 80 apiece. Haven't looked back since.
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Such a classic DIY project and well done Ryan. I was surprised the dirt came off with just the sponge 🤯.
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Got the same blinds and in some of the less used rooms the opening spring gets stuck and requires a bit of persuasion to kick in. The trick would be to open them daily to keep them in good working condition
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Gonna give props to EcoSmart Shades in Vermont. Great service, quality, and attention to details in their design. Made in USA yet still say cheaper than name brand stuff.
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Another thing to be careful about are the materials the blinds are made out of. Some of these can go up in flames extremely violently acting as an accelerant and then in turn lighting things on fire that usually don’t burn easily.
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Great channel. I would never spend 3 figures for one window. I could buy 5 cheap blinds and change it out every year. If I was looking for black out I buy black out insulated curtains.
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Why a horizontal blind for a casement (horizontal open) window? Won't it flap in the breeze?
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nice is there a window screen option as well? wondering if you could do the same type of video
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Could you please do a 3,000 pull test just to satisfy my curiosity if the blind will last 30 years?
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Love your videos!!!
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I bought IKEA's cellular blinds. They only come in fixed sizes, however they can be cut down to whatever size you need with a circular saw. Yes you can! You must make sure you are very careful and you will most likely need to readjust the spring mechanism, Its not hard but you need to know what you are doing which just means coming to understand how it works. However Mold can be an issue. They do clean up easily as they are polyester, they look like paper but they are not.
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Thank you.
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The man of the people!
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My biggest issue with those types of blinds (and probably the expensive ones too)... if you have to place the mounts into a tight space (especially inside mount blinds), good luck getting them to unsnap if you need to remove that blind without chipping or downright breaking the plastic top rail of the blind. I broke three of the 5 I had to remove to paint a couple rooms. Not sure how well they will remount and if they stay in place.
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Just $500 per window? We averaged $1000 CAD (yup, that’s three zeros) per window with Hunter Douglas Silhouettes back in 2005–and that was a very good price.😱I guess it was a case of the blinds doing the stealing for a change…
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Really wish this was posted last year when I bought all new blinds for my house......
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👍👍👍.Thanks
