More on Repairing Vertical Blinds
There are countless ways that our beautifully working vertical blinds can malfunction, sometimes it is due to faulty components of the vertical blinds and mostly it is due to human mistakes when operating the vertical blinds. Just the other day, someone opened the door at their patio, that person must have forgotten that there were vertical blinds hanging on the patio. Well what happened was he forgot to open the vertical blinds, so the blinds caught each other on the stems and now it’s broken and the slats just refuse to open. The whole family got involved and after some initial blaming sessions, they decided to look for a solution to rectify the broken vertical blinds. The last resort would be to engage a vertical blinds repairman but they decided to take their case online and they came back with a few very good suggestions on how to repair their vertical blinds. Here are some of them:
First of all, we got to understand how the vertical blinds actually open and close. Basically, there is a hex shaped rod in the head unit over which each curtain hanger slides and rotates. The rod drives a Round plastic gear that meshes with a plastic screw gear that drives the rotation of the blinds. So you can unclip all the vertical blinds, so they don't get in the way, and run the chain through enough cycles to see if all the pins are rotating? See if you can find a mid point where you can rotate them open and closed. then re-hang the slats. Then make sure your slats are overlapping each other the same from slat to slat.. when you open vertical blinds in the tilted closed position it is easy for one slat to overlap another as they swing back and forth. Most of the time, the slats of your vertical blinds must have gotten flipped so that they are overlapped in the wrong direction. While one or two would be noticeable when trying to tilt them open, that main suspicion is that they are all flipped the wrong way now. Just go from end to end flipping each one so that the edge that was behind the next vane/slat of your vertical blinds, is now in front.
Like I said…if you go through all the suggestions above and the slats of your vertical blinds are still broken or cannot be opened. Call your neighborhood vertical blinds specialist or if you are really frustrated, just rip off your vertical blinds from the wall…drive to the nearest WallMart or Home Depot and get yourself some new vertical blinds! Case close….
First of all, we got to understand how the vertical blinds actually open and close. Basically, there is a hex shaped rod in the head unit over which each curtain hanger slides and rotates. The rod drives a Round plastic gear that meshes with a plastic screw gear that drives the rotation of the blinds. So you can unclip all the vertical blinds, so they don't get in the way, and run the chain through enough cycles to see if all the pins are rotating? See if you can find a mid point where you can rotate them open and closed. then re-hang the slats. Then make sure your slats are overlapping each other the same from slat to slat.. when you open vertical blinds in the tilted closed position it is easy for one slat to overlap another as they swing back and forth. Most of the time, the slats of your vertical blinds must have gotten flipped so that they are overlapped in the wrong direction. While one or two would be noticeable when trying to tilt them open, that main suspicion is that they are all flipped the wrong way now. Just go from end to end flipping each one so that the edge that was behind the next vane/slat of your vertical blinds, is now in front.
Like I said…if you go through all the suggestions above and the slats of your vertical blinds are still broken or cannot be opened. Call your neighborhood vertical blinds specialist or if you are really frustrated, just rip off your vertical blinds from the wall…drive to the nearest WallMart or Home Depot and get yourself some new vertical blinds! Case close….
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