How to Install Cordless Window Blinds | Outside Mount
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This video will demonstrate the complete process of measuring, selecting, installing, and shortening 1" vinyl blinds with an outside mount.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
4:02 Measuring and Selecting Blinds
6:11 Installing Blinds
11:33 Shortening Vinyl Blinds
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Good video. I wasn't sure about the orientation of the brackets for an outside mount and the instructions that came with the miniblinds were poor. Your video clearly showed how to properly install the brackets. Thanks !
Thank you so much. After many hours of searching, you are the first person to mention using spacers when installing above the trim. I had a flat part on the trim in my old house I was able to use, but this new house has no flat parts on the trim. My parents blinds are installed this way without the spacers and they get caught on the trim when trying to tilt the slats, so I was thinking of using some type of wood spacers, but didn't think I would like the look. I'm so glad you mentioned those transparent ones.
All I can say is, this tutorial is awesome. Thank you so much.
Hi just wanted to say that im thankful for this video! Bought a venetian blind recently from an online store which means i had to learn how to install it myself (but my dad ended up helping me out!). Thanks for the super helpful & informative video!! 😊
Great! Glad the video helped out and thanks for the feedback 👍
Wow! I can do it myself! Your video is excellent! Love how thorough you are describing all the necessary parts of an easy, no problem installation. I picked up the different screws and made sure I had a magnetic screwdriver drill. We just got all our old windows replaced and thought I would have to have professional installation etc. I even made a template out of the cardboard from the blind box so I could just use it for all the windows and blinds installed. The windows were all the same size. Thank you again Perfect instructional video.
Thank you so much for the tutorial, it made the task less stressful.
Thank you. I just bought 4 of these blinds and didn't like the written instructions. Your video was so clear. I installed them in no time.
Great, glad the video helped!
Thank you for this video I have blinds in my bathroom too long and therefore too heavy for such a small window and it’s starting to hang in the middle but now I’ll remove the extra stuff and problem solve. Love your clear explanation too 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Patricia!
I just installed a cordless blind from the Big Box store. Good quality and, along with yours, very user-friendly directions. HOWEVER, I did an outside mount, installing it to clear the window, and discovered that I can't reach that high! So it still partially covers the window when it's up. Who'd a thunk it? It's fine, and I'll leave it, because everything else worked out great. I just never would've thought of it, so thought I'd share.
On a tangential topic, I have a tip for inside mounting. If you have a lot of blinds to hang, make a template. Just rip one of the flaps off a blind box and tape it into the corner of the window frame where you want the left bracket to go. Once you decide on the bracket position, use an awl to mark the screw holes in the cardboard. Before you remove the template, write an L (for left) on it, and draw an arrow so you know the proper orientation to use. Remove the template and write an R (for right) on the other side. Then you can use the template and an awl to mark the screw locations for all of your windows. Use the L side for the left brackets, and the R side for the right brackets. The reason you use the left side to create the template is because the blind tilting mechanism means you don't have as many placement options for the left bracket. If the template works for the left side, it should also work for the right side after you flip it over.
Good stuff Mark, thanks for the info/tip!
I should also point out that this depends on the mounting brackets having holes in a symmetrical pattern. If the patter is asymmetric, you'll need two templates.
I like blinds and curtains for a pretty complete black out effect. Blinds usually have holes in them and of course the space between the slats. Curtains usually bleed light through and the space between them if they don't overlap enough. Having both makes for a pretty dark room. Especially useful in the summertime when you finally have a day off to sleep in! 😊
I think that is a better all around solution. In my rentals and flip properties I usually just put up blinds but some of my renters request curtains as well especially in the bedrooms 👍.
Thanks for explain the differences and real life applications. Very helpful!!
Great video and videos you make. Love the format and your direction. Thank you
Thanks Tommy, appreciate your support 👍
AWESOME!!! Just what I needed!!
WOW!!! Thank you for the detailed Info....so much appreciated!!!!
You’re welcome! Best of luck with the project.
Thanks for the easy tips!!!! Great video!!
Thank you! For some reason I was having a brain fart and couldn't figure out how to put them on.
Thanks so much for your video. You do a really good job!
Thank you for your help!
Great video!
Wow this is exactly what I needed thanks a bunch 🌺
You bet!
Thanks for the shortening tip
No problem! Happy to help. 👍
Hi, thanks for your video. It was a lot of help. Were would I buy the clear spacers? I’m hanging the mini blind above the window frame as the frame doesn’t have any flat parts. This spacer needs to be 3/4”.
Thanks again
Bought 27x48 Room Dark blinds. Window width inside vinyl frame around window 26x35. Surrounding wood framing is 27 1/2 x35. Suggested location for placing brackets!
I really like the effort your doing here.
Thanks for the kind words!
@@EverydayHomeRepairs Because they are and You're welcome
Thank you so much!
Thanks. Good tips!
You bet!
Greatness! Thanks.👍
Depending on how many different sized windows you have in a given house (I have roughly three), I like to keep an extra set or two of the cheap blinds as "just in case" replacements. I have no issue using the cheap Lowes house brand on most of my windows, but they are more brittle and so break more easily if hit by something, etc.
Hey Marc, I have used several different brands from the big box home improvement stores over the years but I did notice these Project Source 1" vinyl blinds seemed a bit more brittle and prone to the slats getting chipped or broken.
@@EverydayHomeRepairs Definitely noticed it too. There was a previous iteration of the Lowes brand cordless that wasn't as brittle, but didn't have the control rod to open/close, and instead you had to pull down or lift up on them a bit (with the side effect of also raising or lowering them a little every time).
Awesome video! Ive installed blinds before but NEVER with these metal brackets and the instructions are horrible (thanks Nien Made for lousy instructions!). Fingers crossed that i can do this style after watching your video!👍😎🤘
Thanks!!!!
You should undo the fastener at the bottom and remove the slats without damaging them so they can be used for repairs if your cat attacks it.
when they installed our new windows they took away our jam area for hanging blinds. I was wondering if we could thicken the jam by adding a boarder around the window, in which does not have any trim around it so that we can install our blinds on the inside and then put our curtains back up
Thank you
Well demonstrated. Man of the house. Ouldnt figure it out. Man of the house next door couldn't figure it out.....in over 30 minutes of trying.
WOMAN has to show them YOUR video-a woman that had it figured out in less than 5 minutes!!!! You go girl! We got this! Thank you!
Chapter 3 was so fast. How do you short the blinds? Which thread did you cut?
good info. install probably 30-40 of those blinds a year. tenants tear them up.going to get some spax screws.
You will love the Spax screws also pick up the #1 Robertson bit for your drill. 👍
The brackets with way do the go
Can I reuse the blind columns later incase of installing on longer windows?
Great Video! Thank you for making it. Question: I purchased white 1" Vinyl slat type cordless Levolor blinds Model #929751 (sorry, it was before I saw your video) and thought I could shorten them... however when I got them home I read the instructions they said they cannot be shortened... yet I see instructional videos, including yours, showing how to shorten them. These blinds are slightly different from yours, instead of the elongated holes to pass the lifting cords, they have tiny small holes (total of 4) for the 4 lifting cords that pass through the slats (positioned towards the rear of the slats, I think it gives a cleaner look). The model I have is 60" wide x 72" tall blinds (for a 43" tall window, that is ridiculously oversized!!!), There are 5 ladders, and 4 lift strings. Are these really impossible to shorten or are the instructions saying that to discourage people from attempting to shorten the blinds? Do you or your audience know anything about these? Thank you in advance.
very easy t follow! Nice eyes!
I have three cordless levelor blinds that are installed side by side. Each one closes a bit more or less than the other. So at night with the lights on inside and the blinds closed, some let more or less light through than the others. How can I make it so they all close tightly with no gap at the overhang of each slat?
I need specific instructions for Allen & Roth blinds.
Can I use same brackets for outside and inside mount?
Would like a closer look at the strings you cut to shorten the blind couldn't actually see what ones you cut
What brand blinds did you use for the video?
So I had to repair some slats in my blinds, as I was doing this, the pull cord retracted too far into the inner mechanism up top. When I tried pulling it back out, I grabbed the wrong part of the string out, and now it's messed up now. Does anyone know anything about the inner mechanisms that come with the blinds in this video?
I have a HUnter Douglass cordless blind that no longer pulls up. Is there a way to fix that?
So you don't measure from end of trim to trim for the width?
thanks because my parents were struggling LMFAOOO
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THANK YOU. very clear!
Im doing an outside mount. I have 30 3/4 inch wide window. So I would be buying 34 inch wide blinds for the over hang?
I would use blinds which are 33" or 34" as either should work and give adequate overhang. Best of luck on the project!
I cant get the blind to clip in the 1st mounting bracket...we tried everything
They can be difficult. Just confirm the mounting clip isn't angle a little which could make things a little harder to align.
At around 5:00, based on where your hands are, it looks like you are measuring from the inside of one side of the frame to the outside of the other side of the frame. Is this really how you measure?
how did you compensate for the trim that was angled? -- do both holes of the bracket need to be flush with the trim?
I did not compensate for the angle of the trim and just mounted the bracket flat against the trim without any shimming. I thought about shimming but since the angle wasn't that aggressive I just mounted flat.
I went ahead without doing anything and they hung beautifully- thanks to your video! Thank you!!!
No problem, happy to help 👍
which size Robertson does the 6x1 spax take
You will want a #1 Robertson. 👍
With is button in which one istop
Your link to the blinds you used from Amazon doesn’t work anymore. Can you please share the link again?
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Thank you for simplifying this for me as I've never hung a blind before. The directions in the box are useless...to me anyway lol. Great video.
Thanks, I buy my blinds from Dako.
3:46 Did you use spacers? Doesn't look like it.
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These brackets are a PIA to work with! I have purchased blinds three times from the same store and have gotten 3 different types of brackets, and all are different when it's time to attach the blind! I get so frustrated and just when I think I have it clipped in securely, it falls down. Why did they have to change the brackets? They are horrible. The end brackets were much simpler. Another example of, "If it isn't broken..."
I’ve been installing these blinds in my house and having a horrible time! I make sure that they’re all even with each other and exactly the same. Then I hook the top of the blind into the top hook but then when I go to rotate the blind to get it to snap and to the bottom clip… It’s so far off and I keep trying really hard and I can’t get it to go in. I finally got frustrated and went ahead and just rotated it super hard and the top clip chipped off a piece of the upper blind where it clips on at the top? I don’t understand what’s going on? If anyone can help me I would greatly appreciate it.☹️
I'm having the same problem.
I think for amateurs its easier/better to first drill a pilot hole. It took me a minute to figure out where you hooked the top of the blind on the brackets but otherwise very nice video.
Your videos are good however if you would please ZOOM in on parts and how you mounted it
Suggestion: Show the 3 clips up close when you mount them. I could not really see the orientation of them. Also, show attaching the clip BEFORE they are attached to the wall. Then put clips on wall, attach blinds to them. Otherwise, great video.
Appreciate the feedback!
Why you skip showing how to attach the blind turner/adjuster smh
Thanks for the informative video tho , Really Helped!!
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I put that 💩 up wrong but I have no choice it's a wall and then window so it is sitting on those things like L. L.
Thanks !!!
You bet!
Thank you! For some reason I was having a brain fart and couldn't figure out how to put them on.