Curtains or Roller Binds for your kids room ?

[Emelyn]

Hi Hi,


Some experience to share. Got someone from JB to do the vertical blinds for us. The material used to hook the blinds onto the rod not so good, made of plastics. Can be easily broken with your bare hands. Right now, 90% of the hooks in my kids' room are broken. We had to replace it with safety pin instead. The other 2 rooms have about 10% of the hooks broken. The kids' room more damage because we draw the curtains more often.

My description may not be very clear. Here is a picture of 2 pieces of vertical blinds. The bottom one shows the broken hook. The top one shows that we had to use a safety pin, which I just realise is rusty. So sad.

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And there is another rectangle piece placed at the bottom of each blind, which you then have a chain to \"clip\" on it to string all the blinds together. So that all should look like this.

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Closeup.

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Well, the part where the chain is to \"clip\" to is so fragile that it broke as well. See below. So basically, all that can be broken are broken liao.

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Called up the guy to come and check, and to advise what we can do. Since Nov, until now, he kept saying that he or his man will come to service. But never turn up. Made 3 appointments which they never kept to.

So, my suggestion is never never do vertical blinds. And also, if you are doing blinds, check and double check on the quality of the material used.

Right now, DH is planning to remove everything himself, and try to install a rod himself and we just buy off-the-shelf curtains. No time liao. Got to DIY.

Regards

[tankee]

I believe you can buy replacement for those broken parts.


I recall seeing those parts on sale but just could not remember where.

[Emelyn]

tankee:

I believe you can buy replacement for those broken parts.


I recall seeing those parts on sale but just could not remember where.

Hi Tankee,

Thanks for the advice. The bottom rectangular piece can replace easily. It is the top part that is a problem. Need to unstitch the curtain, change the item, then stitch back.

The curtain guy came last night and assessed. Said that he also doesn't know that the quality is so poor, because the factory didn't tell him. He will charge us $120 to do the replacement of the parts. And the new parts will be of the same quality. Which means, few years down the road, we will need to repalce again. :yikes:

So, we told him to change the rail to normal curtain rail. We will just buy off-the-shelf cloth curtains. No more vertical blinds for us. At least not from this guy.

Cheers !

[atrecord]

I also have some experience to share. Our ID told us curtain only nice for full height glass door, and told us to do roller blinds for all the rooms. Then the toilets (shower, bath area) also did roller blinds cos they are going to be wet area (so curtains won’t work, unless go for those plastic shower curtains that do not look nice)…


So we did lots of roller blinds. Then do already, found that there are a lot of gaps in between the blinds, as well as betw the blinds and the wall, etc. This is of course a big problem, as privacy is compromised. End up have to put some frosted films at the relevant areas…

Hence my advice is to go for blinds wherever possible. For toilets, shower, bath, I think maybe frost the glass…

Only study room I think roller blinds would be good…

[jenao]

I hv a question for those who have blinds in their room. When it is windy and you sleep with the blinds down, it is always flapping? Or do most pple with blinds sleep with air con? Wondering if blinds are good if your windows are open most of the time?

[1amber]

I just changed from roller blinds to uv blinds. Looks greater, feels cooler, and can let some air or sunlight in. Overall, very happy with it. In bedroom I use dark and day curtains.

[Michelle Shen]

I used to have blinds and i find it quite noisy so i changed… you can consider changing to curtains or roller blinds… Curtains=Variety but hassle when want to wash, Roller blinds=Boring but ease of cleaning

[1amber]

If you open windows with roller blinds, can become noisy. UV or venetian won’t.

[Michelle Shen]

hi 1 amber, pardon my ignorance : p UV or venetian are…

[1amber]

Michelle Shen:

hi 1 amber, pardon my ignorance : p UV or venetian are...

hi hi

uv blinds are 1.5inches in width looks like wood not made of another material that can withstand uv light and will not fade.

venetian blinds are smaller, thinner and made of a more flimsy material.

Both waterproof and operates by similar mechanism, opens horizontally.