Wiggo
Well-Known Member
I put blinds in the heads on our F37. Standard Homebase plastic narrow slat ones, cut to length and shortened by cutting off the excess slats and reattaching the bottom bar (10 minute job). To stop them swinging around underway is a little more involved, but it goes like this...
You will need (per window):
2 white plastic door bolts (like this, but Homebase do them in plastic)
1m (or so) of stainless steel wire (again from Homebase)
4 solderless nipples. These are the little things that you have on bike brake cables - a little cylinder about 5mm dia and 10mm long with a hole through the side for the cable and a screw in the end to clamp the cable in place. Bought from the local cycle shop for a few pence.
The plastic door bolts I got are sort of triangular. Chuck the bolt bit, you just want the small part that the bolt goes in to. Drill a small hole in the top, slide a solderless nipple in and poke the steel cable through the hole like this:
Screw these down to the window ledge under the string in the blinds, drill a small hole in the bottom bar of the blinds and thread the steel cable up through the slats until it emerges in the top bit of the blinds. Slide another nipple over the cable and tighten it up. Now offer the blind up to the top fixing, adjust the position of the top nipples to match the length of the cable to the height of the window and you're done. The steel cable will stop the blinds swinging round in exactly the same way as it's done on the custom made ones. Total project cost about £15 per blind.
You will need (per window):
2 white plastic door bolts (like this, but Homebase do them in plastic)
1m (or so) of stainless steel wire (again from Homebase)
4 solderless nipples. These are the little things that you have on bike brake cables - a little cylinder about 5mm dia and 10mm long with a hole through the side for the cable and a screw in the end to clamp the cable in place. Bought from the local cycle shop for a few pence.
The plastic door bolts I got are sort of triangular. Chuck the bolt bit, you just want the small part that the bolt goes in to. Drill a small hole in the top, slide a solderless nipple in and poke the steel cable through the hole like this:
Screw these down to the window ledge under the string in the blinds, drill a small hole in the bottom bar of the blinds and thread the steel cable up through the slats until it emerges in the top bit of the blinds. Slide another nipple over the cable and tighten it up. Now offer the blind up to the top fixing, adjust the position of the top nipples to match the length of the cable to the height of the window and you're done. The steel cable will stop the blinds swinging round in exactly the same way as it's done on the custom made ones. Total project cost about £15 per blind.
