Replacing a broken set of blinds in my house and apparently no one sells the old standard kind where you pull the cord to raise them, I guess because kids and/or pets could tangle in the cord? Bit of an education in miniblinds today.

  • @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    I’ve never understood why they had more than 1 string for a set of blinds, it’s not like anybody wants to raise only one corner of it?

    My experience has been that stringless blinds are the Landlord Special of window covering, they suck ass and barely raise up if you don’t get the individual “blades” perfectly horizontal.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      73 hours ago

      Little trick I figured out as a kid in case you ever have the string blinds again (also, never seen stringless):

      Cut a string to the same length as the two coming out of the blinds, snip the little plastic cap off the two attached to the blinds, and braid the three strings together, tie at the end. Never pull unevenly again.

    • @Rivalarrival
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      165 hours ago

      One string pulling up the left side, one string pulling up the right side. They are separated in the “down” position, so they have to be separated in the “up” as well.

      If you use only one string in the middle, they will never stay level.