Installing click fit conservatory blinds made by Blinds 2Go
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- čas přidán 4. 05. 2021
- My experience of installing concertina type conservatory blinds in upvc french doors. Purchased from Blinds 2Go, the reality of installing them was more challenging than the manufactures suggest - but the end result was well worth it.
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Thank you SO MUCH for this video. We bought these blinds and they were hard to pull apart and we thought we had untied them, but it felt like we were going to break them. Seeing your strings really helped us and now our blinds are up. Thank you for this level of detail that we couldn't find anywhere else!
Thanks. Really appreciate your comment. Someone recently said the video was over the top - but I’ve put up several of these blinds and every time I have an issue with the cords. It’s worth the effort though - the blinds are great once up.
Thank you for posting this video! I had noticed the same issues with the tied blinds and additional bracket holes. I'm not the best at DIY and approach these with things with the upmost caution lest I waste all my money with a botched job and this was really helpful.
You forgot the absolutely vital bit, if you want to use the 'Mrs dining table, do it whilst she's out or use a tablecloth. I learned a whole new vocabulary using only four letters when I did as you.
This video has helped me out so much! Buying my first ever blinds as I saw how awful the manufacturer's video was beforehand. This has been an absolute god send!
I used a credit card when inserting the brackets, as instructed, but found that the holes in the frame weren't lined up with the brackets! They'd drilled the holes too far along the frame! So I had to remove the brackets, which had been a real struggle to insert, and move them along about an inch. This made the whole job a lot more difficult, but I am pleased with the result. I think it's a brilliant system.
I am about to purchase Blinds2go thermal blinds having seen them at a friends house and have been worried as to whether I am competent enough to fit them. Your tutorial has been a godsend (before I buy them) and I have decided to give it a go. I really believe that Blinds2 go should pay you some sort of commission for doing that tutorial because its spot on and I believe I would have 'wimped out' and got them from somewhere like Hillary's rather than trying myself. It's basically a confidence thing and I know after watching your video that I am capable of fitting them. Thanks again for taking the trouble to film it.
Thank you - good luck with the fitting.
Thanks for uploading that, its much better watching/learning from "real" people & the commentary was excellent.
I’ve just installed mine in real time watching your video - thanks, very useful
Thanks for sharing the whole process, with good bits & bad.
Thanks, very useful. I have just had bifolds installed and haven't decided about blinds yet but these look like a great solution
Thank you do much your video helped me out massively today putting up my new blinds.👍
Absolutely honest review and instructions. Have been toying with this idea for a few years now but always terrified of giving it a go until now. Thanks for making this video
Thank you for this, really concise and helpful.
Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!
Thanks for making this video. am about to buy these blinds but when you watch manufacturers videos online, they make it look so easy. I was watching you and thinking this isn't a walk in the park, you know. This is like building lego and fiddling around. there should be proper instructions and labelling of each individual pack is so important. I guess you need to have your thinking cap on. hmmmm! installing this in a big house and conservatory, one cannot afford to get the measurements wrong. I learned a lot from this video. many thanks
Thank you for putting up this video. It has helped us tremendously in putting up our perfect fit duoshade thermal blinds from Blinds2go. Totally agree with you that some instructions were missing from the manufacturer's instructions.
One caution for others as the strings are easily tangled and knotted. We had a hard time getting them unknotted.
I agree with you about the cords, we are in the process of installing our blinds, the cords are loose and we don't know how to tension them?
Dish soap trick worked for us, thanks very much for the video👍
Thank you, very comprehensive. Ready to buy now
Very helpful, much more confident buying after watching this
Thanks so much for this. Fit2go blinds video makes it look like a doddle but I’m so pleased I watched your video as I knew it wouldn’t be that simple. You helped me a lot, many thanks 🙏
Just bought one of these blinds as a test before we fit out the whole conservatory and used this video as a guide. You made it so easy and simple to fit, great video, this should be the official fitting video 😄🫱🏻🫲🏼
I had to work the brackets in really hard, at first I thought they wouldn't go in all the way, but in the end they did.
Thank you. This is so helpful.
Thankyou for creating this video
Thanks for this Video, really helped me 👍
Thank you for the video this has helped me a lot
Thank you, would’ve taken an age with the manufactures instructions 👍
Great now i want to watch the Crystal Maze!
Thanks, great video ! Are these the blockout DuoShade Chalk Thermal Blind ?
Great video. Thanks for sharing your install of these blinds. I'm looking at fitting some myself soon and so this was very useful.
I just wanted you to know that you can see your card details at one point in the video. I'm not wanting to cause alarm, but I thought it best pointing it out in case you wanted to take the video down, edit that part out and upload again. It may not be an issue if people watching don't know your address, but better safe than sorry!
Thanks. I hope it was useful.
I found it best clicking it in the right side with the blinds facing front ways
Thank you!!
Do you have any advice on how to adjust the tension? The instructions imply it’s super easy, but it’s impossible to tie a knot that close to the frame!
Well done
Are they not the perfectfit rather than clickfit product?
I was hoping for a close up of one of the brackets in the door. Is it positioned on the glass side or on the further away tope of the seal? Brilliant video btw - thanks for sharing.
Hi. The bracket is positioned against the glass and underneath the seal. Hope that helps.
thank you, you have inspired me to have a go
well done good honest vid
Thanks so much for the video! How did you undo that knot after all? I've just got 4 of these blinds, for a total of 8 knots I absolutely can't get undone. I'm at the point of returning these blinds just because folks in the factory decided to tie knots too tight! It's also so convenient that the blinds in their tutorial video have no cords at all - makes it all look so much easier than it actually is...
@@feclips How did I undo the knots? With difficulty is the answer. Just had to be patient and gently tease the knots apart with my finger nails. I cannot understand why the manufacturer persists with this method. Surely there’s a cheap, simple alternative.
Does the blind frame stick out from the door frame by much and how far past the end of the glass does it go?
I've got bifolds with a centre rotating lock and I'm struggling to find blinds to fit a most seem to have quite a lip on them
we have bifolds(3 x 1 metre panes). would this system work you think? and are they expensive?
Great video but my blinds won’t pull apart at all when trying to install.
I untied the easy knots but not sure what else to do? Saw a comment about someone untying the knots at the bottom. I only have one knot at the bottom, 2 at the top, but the one at the bottom seems impossible to undo.
Have they helped with keeping heat in and the cold out?
Ahhh, brilliant I feel more confident to order and have a go myself!
Hi, thanks for creating this video. Fills in many of the blanks in the manufacturers video.
At 7:47 you mention the knot that's tight to the frame. I have the same situation except I had a knot on both sides. One came away when pulled, but the knot on the other side is so tight to the frame I'm having no luck getting it untied. I take it you did undo the knot shown there? Just want to check that you did untie that knot and it's not supposed to be left knotted?
To the best of my recollection there was one knot on the left and another on the right, both of which had to be undone.
@@sksdiy5874 Excellent, thanks for the reply. I will persevere!
Hi. Yes!
To give them their full title Blinds2Go call the blinds they supplied me “PerfectFIT DuoShade Graphite Thermal Blinds”. To keep it simple I have used the generic term ‘click fit’.
I see that Blinds2Go also supply something they call a “ClickFIT” blind.
Hi, I’m about to order exactly what you have & was so interested in watching how you put them up! Can you tell me what the difference is between perfect fit, easy fit & click fit? I want these blinds for the bedroom & want complete black out but I’ve seen some videos of these type of blinds where they flap in the frame and let the light in? I’d be very grateful for any advice thanks!
It will all become very clear when you do the job. Give it a try.
Hi mate lovely job, would you recommend replacing the window seals if the current one's are wearing rough? Have you noticed any play in the seals since installing?
Replacing the seals would be a much bigger job, so if they are doing what they are intended to do I would leave well alone. You won’t see the seals when the blinds are fitted.
I haven’t found any play in the seals in any of the 9 blinds of this type I have installed.
Hope that helps!
This was really helpful but I'm still struggling getting the bracket under the seal. Even with fairy liquid ☹ our doors are new so I'm wondering if that's a reason. Anyone else having this problem?
Heat it with a hair dryer
Thanks very much for this video. I was stumped with that stupid little knot they tied in the cords to keep them together. The included instructions are really bad.
A really useful video - thank you :-) Having done 2 myself now and several more to go. Issues we are having is we have more knots than you had, which are incredibly difficult to undo and no instructions on this. We will be ordering more and my query is, you didn't show much on tensioning the blind so they stay up, as again this involves knots and we found pretty difficult. How did you get on with tensioning them and having to redo the knots in order to do this?
I have now fitted 6 of these blinds in my home and haven’t had to “tension” any of them. I have only undone the knotted bundle - not the ends of the cord at the top and bottom. My advice would be to leave those alone.
@@sksdiy5874 thanks...but without undoing the bottom one u can't expand blind out. I don't touch the top unless it needs tension which both mine have. We've got them to work fine but incredibly difficult and as u say instructions don't match up in places. I've spoken to them and they are hoping to send without so many knots! It's been great seeing ur video as made me feel better situation I've had, as u have way less knots than ours lol 😆
Having a similar issue, my blinds won’t pull apart at all when fitting. How did you get around this?
@@michaeln645 Issue i had was related to too many knots that weren't necessary. I spoke to blinds2go and asked them to tape cord with masking tape to keep blinds safe during transit rather than knots. There should only be knots that u don't need to undo unless re-tensioning the cord, but it was a learning curve.
Also i ordered blinds bit by bit so just coped with 1st ones. Used needles to untie the knots but took ages!! I had to speak to manager and send videos to explain my issue. Bit of a slog. Good luck
Thanks, having a nightmare with mine. I’ve kept the 2 knots at the top of blinds and have 1 at the bottom I can’t seem to untie at all. I thought undoing the easy ones would mean they open, but not at all! If I don’t have any luck will email and see if they can be returned
Please may I have some advice.
I'm struggling if the bracket can squeeze into the rubber seal of my windows. I'm even trying gently with cutting knife but it seems that the seal is very tight to the beading. Should I just push it harder? Thank you
I wouldn’t attack the seals with a knife. I suggest putting washing up liquid on the bracket to make it easier to push into the seal.
any link for these on the blinds to go site chap?
Nice job and very simple, just need your credit card number to buy this🤣
Are these standard size windows?
My concern is that doesn’t this cause the seal to get damaged and thus causing condensation between the glass?
All I can say is that I have fitted these blinds to 6 windows of differing sizes in 2 different houses and none of the seals have been damaged or compromised at all.
Are these the same as the "Perfect Fit" range from B2G?
Yes!
Hi does it compromise the seal on the doors when you are sliding stuff into the rubber seal?
Hi. No I’m pleased to say it hasn’t. We have been having to put up with some appalling weather recently, including high winds and driving rain but there’s no evidence that the seal has been compromised.
Do you get commission ? (if not, you should) you just sold me with this vid 👍
I wish!!!
Can the insert brackets scratch the glass?
Hi. All I can say is that I’ve now installed 4 of these blinds and had no problem with the brackets scratching the glass. They are made of metal but have a coating on them and slid easily over the glass - especially with a few drops of washing up liquid. I can’t say it’s impossible to scratch the glass, only that I haven’t done so - and never had any concern that I might.
When I fit my blinds the bit you push into the door is loose and drops just wondering if anyone know how to re tighten the window part back in?
If the bracket is flush against the glass and pushed under the black seal then it should be trapped in place and secure. Sorry, but if it’s correctly installed I don’t understand why it’s loose.
@@sksdiy5874 the part you push it under seems to be alot loser than all the other windows, we've had them in for free years and it's like the door holiding window has become lose
Can you still see the string once they are fitted or is it hidden
Yes. The string is visible when the blind is open. It’s hidden when the blind is closed.
Are there blinds available where there is no string visible? In Hillarys shop their perfect fit honeycombe blinds don’t have string showing so I wondered what the difference was?
I spoke to blinds to go today and they are looking into it , I wasn’t happy as purchased 3 for my bifolds , I don’t want them because of string showing, all they had to do was move it a fraction to the left and right, anyway let’s see what they say
@@nickygraham469 Sorry, I can’t help you with that question. I’d be surprised if there were no strings on the Hilarys blind - but I don’t know.
@@pompey69 thanks for confirming that. I had a quote from Hillary’s & they quoted me £800 for perfect fit blinds for my bedroom! The window is floor to ceiling & split into 3 windows so I have to buy 3 blinds but when I priced each blind on blinds2go it came to around £200! I’d love to know why there’s such a huge difference in price apart from Hillary’s coming to measure initially which is a free quote, and then coming back to fit them
Such a shame mine brackets won't go into my door. There's no gap for them.
If you have plastic or alloy doors there's always a gap for them, just by pushing past the rubber to glass contact area. If they are wooden it can still sometimes be done but with much more difficulty and shortening of bracket leg. The seal between the glass and wood would need to be taken out with an oscillating tool, this is where glass could be scratched and paintwork would need touching up, it's not impossible but will require some skill and patience.
Are those the 'Perfect fit' rather than 'Click-fit' blinds?
Just wondering how you got the corner covers to stay on? Mine just pop off and some won’t go on at all
I’ve now put up 6 of these blinds and not encountered the problem. It never feels as if it’s going to be a very secure fixing but they’ve not fallen off.
If it did happen I think I’d apply a bit of instant glue - or something like blu tack.
I'm cringing you'd scratch that beautiful table
I do not understand why to use a credit card to measure and what distance? Sorry.
The distance the card is measuring is from the top or bottom edge of the window frame to the edge of the metal bracket that slides between the seal and the glass.
If correctly placed in position the lug which protrudes from the bracket will engage with one of the holes in the frame of the blind.
That will thus locate the blind’s frame in position.
@@sksdiy5874 Thanks. Credit card confused me because previously chatted with the company and they said that I can only use this product if I can fit a credit card behind the seal (black stuff). I cannot really fit a credit card behind the black seal. I think the seal would not be functional if I could. So that's why I started my research on youtube. Maybe the sharper bracked will fit . But I am not sure. So, you used the credit card to have exact measurement of where the bracket should go. But why did you not use measure tape?
These are perfect fit blinds not click fit blinds.
Click fit have no frame at the sides
Hi sir please give me this company details
Painful
Scratching your table
These are perfect fits not clickfit.