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bending vertical blinds for shallow bay
They charge you an awful lot more for curved vertical blinds than for
straight. I know they are custom bent, but I suspect they rip you off too. You can get some cheap verticals from argos. Any idea how to smoothly bend these to fit round a shallow bay (about 2 metres across for 40cms in) ? They are probably aluminium channel. There may be problems with the sliders snagging, but I guess the edges could be rounded off. The difference would be 50 quid (argos) versus 300 quid plus ! Thanks, Simon. |
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Simon wrote: I know they are custom bent, but I suspect they rip you off too. You can get some cheap verticals from argos. Any idea how to smoothly bend these to fit round a shallow bay (about 2 metres across for 40cms in) ? They are probably aluminium channel. There may be problems with the sliders snagging, but I guess the edges could be rounded off. The difference would be 50 quid (argos) versus 300 quid plus ! I'd thought the chances of bending the slats into a curve so they all look the same near impossible. ;-) -- *Stable Relationships Are For Horses. * Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Simon wrote:
They charge you an awful lot more for curved vertical blinds than for straight. I know they are custom bent, but I suspect they rip you off too. You can get some cheap verticals from argos. Any idea how to smoothly bend these to fit round a shallow bay (about 2 metres across for 40cms in) ? They are probably aluminium channel. There may be problems with the sliders snagging, but I guess the edges could be rounded off. The difference would be 50 quid (argos) versus 300 quid plus ! I would saw the track and do little mitres at appropriate intervals. This probably means you will lose the ability to slide the verticals, so you'll have to re-assemble each segment separately and always have the blinds across the window. You might also lose the swivelability. An alternative might be a straight, floor-to-lintel/ceiling blind across the chord (?? geometrical term) of the arc of the bay. A voile is probably less faff. Owain |
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