Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control curtains
into a bay window?
Are there any suppliers that anyone would recommend?

Thanks for any advice

Regards

Dave

In article ,
Davey wrote:
Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control
curtains into a bay window? Are there any suppliers that anyone would
recommend?

I had to have the rail - Kirsh heavy duty - made up to fit the bay, as it
needs a mandrel to bend it. It was a long time ago, but think I used
Liberties. But any decent department store or specialist should be able to
help. Dunno who makes the motors these days - mine are Powercord, made by
a small firm in Croydon. Overmatic, IIRC.

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On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:15:35 GMT, "Davey" wrote:

Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control curtains
into a bay window?
Are there any suppliers that anyone would recommend?

Thanks for any advice

Friends had remote controlled curtains on a photocell. The curtains
would close when it became dark and would open again when it became
light.

They didn't like them. It reminded them of attending a funeral at a
crematorium where the curtains slowly close at the end of the service.

It made me laugh when they said that. When they showed me, I could see
what they meant.

The curtains were reliable and the motor was quiet. I think they were
made by a company called Swish?

Graham

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:15:35 GMT, "Davey" wrote:

Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control
curtains
into a bay window?
Are there any suppliers that anyone would recommend?

Thanks for any advice

Friends had remote controlled curtains on a photocell. The curtains
would close when it became dark and would open again when it became
light.

They didn't like them. It reminded them of attending a funeral at a
crematorium where the curtains slowly close at the end of the service.

LOL!

I don't think I'd have liked them either, a remote is one thing, you have
control, responding to light could be inconvenient.

I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate so
that they meet atthesamepoint. Theatre again.

Mary

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:55:07 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate so
that they meet atthesamepoint. Theatre again.

The winter evenings must just fly by.

(:-)

Graham

wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:15:35 GMT, "Davey" wrote:


Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control curtains
into a bay window?
Are there any suppliers that anyone would recommend?

Thanks for any advice


Friends had remote controlled curtains on a photocell. The curtains
would close when it became dark and would open again when it became
light.

They didn't like them. It reminded them of attending a funeral at a
crematorium where the curtains slowly close at the end of the service.

It made me laugh when they said that. When they showed me, I could see
what they meant.

The curtains were reliable and the motor was quiet. I think they were
made by a company called Swish?

Graham


I believe they are now the 'Autoglide' range by Silent Gliss. You can
get them from:

http://www.gbinteriors.co.uk/acatalo...ss__110. html

Not sure about bay windows though. You can also get motors that attach
to the existing cords of a manual curtain system, though I'm not sure if
this approach would be as reliable (but it is cheaper).

Cheers

Chris

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:55:07 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate
so
that they meet at the same point. Theatre again.

The winter evenings must just fly by.

I'm always pleased when the auditorium empties and I can get back to Real
Life. Spouse and I rarely draw curtains. We rarely spend much time in the
rooms which have them.

Mary

(:-)

Graham

In article ,
Chris wrote:
Not sure about bay windows though. You can also get motors that attach
to the existing cords of a manual curtain system, though I'm not sure if
this approach would be as reliable (but it is cheaper).

It works very well provided you have a free running track system. A cheap
corded one would require constant taking up of the slack in the cord.

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My remote curtain operator is in the kitchen............ making me a cuppa
tea.

Chris.


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My remote curtain operator is in the kitchen............ making me a cuppa
tea.

Chris.

I'm glad to hear it - that's what men are for.

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In article ,
Davey wrote:
Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control
curtains into a bay window? Are there any suppliers that anyone would
recommend?

I had to have the rail - Kirsh heavy duty - made up to fit the bay, as it
needs a mandrel to bend it. It was a long time ago, but think I used
Liberties. But any decent department store or specialist should be able to
help. Dunno who makes the motors these days - mine are Powercord, made by
a small firm in Croydon. Overmatic, IIRC.

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Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Overmatic, Coulsdon just a mile or so from Croydon
http://motorised-electric-curtain-track.co.uk/index.htm

Peter

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:09:11 GMT, wrote:

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:55:07 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate so
that they meet atthesamepoint. Theatre again.

The winter evenings must just fly by.

And living in a shoe helps with the novelty factor ;-)

With all the grandchildren wanting to 'have a go' on granny's curtains
the locals use it as a beacon!

Mary has no telly so what else can the poor little devils do ..
especially when all the charcoal or parchment has run out and they
can't play outside for all the bees ;-(

At least they can look forward to supper ... (they got used to gruel
in the end).

All the best ..

T i m

p.s. My swish electric curtains have just closed .. the room light
will come on in a sec .. ;-)

"T i m" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:09:11 GMT, wrote:

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:55:07 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate
so
that they meet atthesamepoint. Theatre again.

The winter evenings must just fly by.

And living in a shoe helps with the novelty factor ;-)

With all the grandchildren wanting to 'have a go' on granny's

GRANDMA!

curtains
the locals use it as a beacon!

The trouble is that we don't know how Morse code works in Gujurati, Hindo
etc.

Mary has no telly so what else can the poor little devils do ..
especially when all the charcoal or parchment has run out and they
can't play outside for all the bees ;-(

You're out of date. No bees anymore. Hens are a constant delight. And we do
have 45 years worth of toys - which they love.

And two computers...

At least they can look forward to supper ... (they got used to gruel
in the end).

They only get gruel if they make it.

All the best ..

T i m

p.s. My swish electric curtains have just closed .. the room light
will come on in a sec .. ;-)

We have a light which comes on when the sun dims. It illuminates a painting
of "Oliver St John Gogarty Releases his Swans on the Liffy ..."

Look it up.

Mary

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:20:06 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"T i m" wrote in message
news

At least they can look forward to supper ... (they got used to gruel
in the end).

They only get gruel if they make it.

I suppose that at least they are allowed down from the chimney then.



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Mary Fisher wrote:
wrote in message
...

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 23:15:35 GMT, "Davey" wrote:


Does anyone have experience of buying and/or fitting remote control
curtains
into a bay window?
Are there any suppliers that anyone would recommend?

Thanks for any advice

Friends had remote controlled curtains on a photocell. The curtains
would close when it became dark and would open again when it became
light.

They didn't like them. It reminded them of attending a funeral at a
crematorium where the curtains slowly close at the end of the service.


LOL!

I don't think I'd have liked them either, a remote is one thing, you have
control, responding to light could be inconvenient.

I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate so
that they meet atthesamepoint. Theatre again.

Thats ok if you have small slaves to operate the cords :-)

Mary Fisher wrote:
"T i m" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:09:11 GMT, wrote:


On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:55:07 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:



I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate
so
that they meet atthesamepoint. Theatre again.

The winter evenings must just fly by.

And living in a shoe helps with the novelty factor ;-)

With all the grandchildren wanting to 'have a go' on granny's


GRANDMA!


curtains
the locals use it as a beacon!


The trouble is that we don't know how Morse code works in Gujurati, Hindo
etc.

Mary has no telly so what else can the poor little devils do ..
especially when all the charcoal or parchment has run out and they
can't play outside for all the bees ;-(


You're out of date. No bees anymore. Hens are a constant delight. And we do
have 45 years worth of toys - which they love.

And two computers...

At least they can look forward to supper ... (they got used to gruel
in the end).


They only get gruel if they make it.

All the best ..

T i m

p.s. My swish electric curtains have just closed .. the room light
will come on in a sec .. ;-)


We have a light which comes on when the sun dims. It illuminates a painting
of "Oliver St John Gogarty Releases his Swans on the Liffy ..."

Your dwelling sounds weirder by the day .... BTW there's an e in Lilley

"Andy Hall" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:20:06 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"T i m" wrote in message
news

At least they can look forward to supper ... (they got used to gruel
in the end).

They only get gruel if they make it.

I suppose that at least they are allowed down from the chimney then.

Chimney?

Wossatthen?

Mary

"OldBill" wrote in message
...



We have a light which comes on when the sun dims. It illuminates a
painting of "Oliver St John Gogarty Releases his Swans on the Liffy ..."

Your dwelling sounds weirder by the day

And yours?

:-)

.... BTW there's an e in Lilley

er - Lilley?

I recommend my optician - the only thing I wrote anything like that was
Liffy - it's an Irish river. Some would say THE Irish river.

Mary

"OldBill" wrote in message
...


I do like our primitive but still working cord pull curtains and
grandchildren love them - there's a theatrical ritual about closing the
curtains and they fight over who does it in the room where one cord pulls
both curtains. In the dining room they do one side each at the same rate
so that they meet at the samepoint. Theatre again.

Thats ok if you have small slaves to operate the cords :-)

When they're not here the curtains are rarely closed. And some of them are
over 6' ...

When they're not here we rarely use the room in the evening and if we do we
can't be bothered to draw the curtains.

It's not compulsory you know :-)

Mary

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:17:09 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

It works very well provided you have a free running track system. A
cheap corded one would require constant taking up of the slack in
the cord.

Pretty sure they come with a spring loaded turn buckle type device to
automagically keep the tension in the cord. Obviously places some
retsriction on where the motor can be.

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In article ,
Peter Andrews wrote:
Dunno who makes the motors these days - mine are Powercord, made by a
small firm in Croydon. Overmatic, IIRC.

Overmatic, Coulsdon just a mile or so from Croydon
http://motorised-electric-curtain-track.co.uk/index.htm

Right - nice to know they're still in business. They make products
designed to last *and* to be repairable if faulty.
The ones I have were designed round record player motors so I wondered if
they still made them. CD players ain't powerful enough. ;-)

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In article om,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
It works very well provided you have a free running track system. A
cheap corded one would require constant taking up of the slack in
the cord.

Pretty sure they come with a spring loaded turn buckle type device to
automagically keep the tension in the cord. Obviously places some
retsriction on where the motor can be.

Yes - ISTR Autodrape used this system as their cord drive would get very
upset with slack and jam.

Powercord - being British - is far better engineered, and is more
tolerant. The one in this room is yonks old and used several times a day
when the sun causes problems with seeing the monitor, as well as being
auto operated in the morning and evening. The curtain track is something
like 4 metres wide. And the cord has never been adjusted. I'd always start
with a free running corded track.

What I'd really want to find is a free running track that could start on
the wall and run round a bay window. They don't exist. ;-)

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:20:06 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


The trouble is that we don't know how Morse code works in Gujurati, Hindo
etc.

In international morse code the same as everywhere else.


(:-)

Graham

Mary Fisher wrote:

We have a light which comes on when the sun dims. It illuminates a painting
of "Oliver St John Gogarty Releases his Swans on the Liffy ..."

I have visions of Mr Burns (from the Simpsons) standing there by the
river saying "fly my beauties"

Graham

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:45:17 +0100 (BST), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:


Pretty sure they come with a spring loaded turn buckle type device to
automagically keep the tension in the cord. Obviously places some
retsriction on where the motor can be.

The spring loading and torque can put some pressure on the wall
mounted motor unit.

The motor unit needs to be screwed to the wall properly.

My friends who had the remote curtains found that the unit came off
the wall after a few years.

Graham

"Mary Fisher" wrote:

I recommend my optician - the only thing I wrote anything like that was
Liffy - it's an Irish river. Some would say THE Irish river.

LIFFEY not LIFFY

Many would say the Shannon is THE Irish river.


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Mary Fisher wrote:
I suppose that at least they are allowed down from the chimney then.
Chimney?
Wossatthen?

It's an alternative to the hole in the middle of the roof for letting
the smoke out. A new-fangled idea, but catching on quite quickly in
London. I daresay it'll make its way Oop North in the next few decades.

Why not save waiting, and ask Spouse for a chimney of your own this
Christmas.

Owain

Andy Hall wrote:
At least they can look forward to supper ... (they got used to gruel
in the end).
They only get gruel if they make it.
I suppose that at least they are allowed down from the chimney then.

Don't knock being up the chimbley, at least up the chimbley they don't
have to listen to endless stories about privies

Owain

"Owain" wrote in message
...
Mary Fisher wrote:
I suppose that at least they are allowed down from the chimney then.
Chimney?
Wossatthen?

It's an alternative to the hole in the middle of the roof for letting the
smoke out. A new-fangled idea, but catching on quite quickly in London. I
daresay it'll make its way Oop North in the next few decades.

WHAT smoke?

Why not save waiting, and ask Spouse for a chimney of your own this
Christmas.

More details required.

Mary

Owain

In article ,
wrote:
Pretty sure they come with a spring loaded turn buckle type device to
automagically keep the tension in the cord. Obviously places some
retsriction on where the motor can be.

The spring loading and torque can put some pressure on the wall
mounted motor unit.

The motor unit needs to be screwed to the wall properly.

My friends who had the remote curtains found that the unit came off
the wall after a few years.

More likely to pull the track off its mounts. ;-) These separate motor
types need to be well fixed as they can produce serious amounts of torque
on maximum.

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In message ,
writes
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:20:06 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


The trouble is that we don't know how Morse code works in Gujurati, Hindo
etc.

In international morse code the same as everywhere else.

And you think that the French would buy that ?

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raden wrote:

And you think that the French would buy that ?

Nah, the'd expect a free handout from the UK coffers to subsidise
procurement like every other ******* thing they do!


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