How to Repair Jammed Blinds? Here Are Tips

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If you have children or a pampered pet, you’re going to have jammed or bent blinds at some point. When it does occur, it will remove the sun cover or privacy that you once had and on top of it, it won’t look good enough.

Steps to repair jammed verticals
If your blinds aren’t moving slowly and shifting, don’t worry, you can repair the problem within minutes.
  • Get hold of the jam’s source and make sure slats are properly adjusted in their particular clips.
  • Ensure none of the slats is put after one another.
  • Next, add silicone spray into the head-rail.
  • Now, repeatedly open and close your blinds to allocate the silicone uniformly.

Steps to repair Timber Venetians that aren’t working or broken
Just replace the broken slat with one from the bottom to enhance its unpleasant look.
  • Use a flathead screwdriver to extract the plugs at the base of the blinds that wrap the lift-strings, pull the string through the hole and unfasten the knot.
  • Take out the lift-string, remove broken slat and put in the replacement slat that you have.
  • Re-thread the lift-string by ensuring you adopt the same course through the slats.
  • Press the string back via the base and fasten each side, then using a rubber mallet or hammer secure the plugs.



Steps to repair broken lift cord
Broken lift cords can be terrible, as you won’t be able to lift up the blinds. If this occurs to you, change the cord with a replacement string that you can find at your local hardware store. In case, the tilt-cord is jammed, verify the top of the head-box to ensure the cord hasn’t jumped off the reel. That’s simple!

Steps to repair bent blinds
To repair bent blinds, begin by taking them out from the window frame. Well, you can leave them up, but it’s certainly easier if the broken slat is put on a flat surface. From this point, you have two methods to attempt.

For Aluminium Venetians
1.      By applying heavy pressure, you can smooth out the bend.
2.      If the slats are curvy, you may require using a dowel to shape your blinds back into its position.

For Vertical Blinds
1.      Take out all bent vertical blinds and four unbent panels.
2.      Next, fill a bathtub with hot water and immerse the bent blinds into the water for two minutes.
3.      Then take out the blinds from the water, insert them between the four straight-panels and fasten together with clips as the panel cools off for about ten minutes.
4.      Follow the same process until all of the panels become straight. However, you will need to dry all of the panels with a soft cloth before reinstalling.

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