How To Repair Vinyl Blinds

Skilful advice for quickly and easily fixing damaged or cleaved window blinds

Window blinds work hard to filter natural light, maintain privacy, and keep a business firm cool on hot days. But life with kids, pets, or even an absent spouse can cause damage. And when blinds are non working correctly, your privacy, comfort, and décor can exist compromised. The good news is that you can fix many window blind problems by yourself in only minutes. Here are some of the virtually mutual problems and how to fix them.

Broken Slat On a Vertical Blind

Found on vertical windows or sliding doors that lead outside, vertical blinds are often installed in high-traffic areas and are tempting for children to grab and pets to swat. The common result? A fallen slat.

Solution: At the top of the ripped off-slat, you should run into a slot that is supposed to go in a clip, which fastens information technology to the headrail. As a quick fix, flip the bullheaded upside down and punch a hole through the other end. Then, you can hang it back upwards. You can also use sturdy record or even a paperclip to repair the broken slot and place the blind back into the headrail.

Cracked or Aptitude Window Blinds Slat

Window blinds may crevice or bend if pets or children are rough with them—or even if kids or pets innocently pull closed blinds apart to get a look outside. Fortunately, 1 damaged slat does not phone call for a whole new window handling—you tin gear up this window bullheaded problem.

Solution: If y'all have an extra slat, remove the cracked blind and replace it. If you do non have an extra one, have a slat from the bottom of the blinds and movement it to the damaged slat'southward position.

Hither'due south how to repair information technology:

Use a flathead screwdriver to remove the two (or more) plugs at the bottom of the blinds that hold and cover the elevator strings or the thicker center string.
Pull the string through the pigsty and untie the knot. (Exist careful, as you volition have to re-tie or knot this string after yous do the repair.) Remove the elevator string.
Take out the broken slat and insert the replacement 1. And so rethread the elevator string by making sure that you follow the same grade through the slats.
Push the string back through the base, and tie off each side so they are at the same length.
Put the plugs dorsum in. You can secure them by using a hammer or rubber mallet.

Window Blind Has a Broken Lift Cord

The elevator cord is an essential role of the bullheaded's mechanics. If information technology breaks, you tin can't open and close the blinds.

Solution: You tin replace the elevator cord yourself. Look for one at your local hardware store. If y'all can't find one, you can achieve out to a window blinds manufacturer or purchase a string at a crafts shop.

Open the support brackets, take out the blinds, place them on a flat surface and pull on the elevator string until all the slats are drawn together.
Cutting the cord at the fray and pull out the discarded slice through the concluding bar.
Splice the new and old cord together past hot gluing their tips and rolling them up in a three-inch long band of plastic electric record.
Rehang the blinds and pull the new lift cord through the cord pathway. With one hand, guide the cord through the headbox hardware and slats. With the other manus, pull on the old lift string. When your splice is clear of the headbox, guide the new lift cord to the final bar, undo the splice and attach your plastic pulls to the end of the new cord.

Jammed Vertical Blinds

Have you ever tried to open up your vertical window blinds and they just won't budge? Good news — there'southward an easy fix for that.

Solution: Don't force the blinds open up if they seem stuck. Instead, observe the source of the jam and gently resolve it.

Ensure that the slats are properly aligned in the clips. Besides, brand sure that the ends are all uniform and the slats are non tucked behind one some other. (If that'south the case, all you lot may take to practice is rotate them in place.)
Shoot silicone spray into the headrail of the vertical blinds.
Open and close the blinds all the mode a few times to guarantee that the silicone spray is evenly coated.

They should be working once again in just minutes.

Don't panic if your trusty window blinds need a little TLC. With a lilliputian elbow grease and a couple of uncomplicated tools, they'll be working hard for yous again.

Katie Laird is the Manager of Social Marketing for Blinds.com and a passionate home decorator for her family with a love of all things Mid-Century Mod and blue. For more about window blinds, visit the Blinds.com website.