Blackout blinds

Jimbeam3678

Jimbeam3678

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Do these work and how do they work??

How much should I be paying for one about 110cm wide.

Also is it best to get them in a dark colour or does it no matter.

The sun rises through my wiondow every morning and it starting to get annoying now!!

Anyhelp would be great.

Thanks in advance :)
 
depends on your window, my old room was a vellux window with blackout blind which was 100% fitted no light through, ahh it was soooo good for sleeping in pitch black. My new window (normal on about your size) has a blackout blind but its not fitted flush, nor has it runners for keeping the light out the side, it sill gets quite bright in the mornings from the lights at the edges.

At a guess i would say bout £70-100 for a properly fitted one? Think mine was about £20 and i fitted it myself.
 
They are just thicker than ordinary blinds - I have one in my bedroom too. Normal blinds tend to be semi-transparent when faced with bright direct sunlight. I actually have curtains in addition to the blind.
 
Blackout blinds are fine just so long as you don't open the window (even on a Velux). As soon as you open the window to let in a little air - sometimes, even this summer, the nights are actually hot ;)

If you are happy to sleep in a hot, stuffy room and aren't going to be opening the window at night, you might just as well stick up cardboard with masking tape. It would work and save you money.
 
Shackley said:
Blackout blinds are fine just so long as you don't open the window (even on a Velux). As soon as you open the window to let in a little air - sometimes, even this summer, the nights are actually hot ;)

If you are happy to sleep in a hot, stuffy room and aren't going to be opening the window at night, you might just as well stick up cardboard with masking tape. It would work and save you money.
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Are you actually serious about the cardboard in the window? :p It wouldn't really look that great from the inside or outside.

The main cost with blinds afaik is the fitting, the material itself shouldn't be that expensive.
 
Fraggr said:
Are you actually serious about the cardboard in the window? :p It wouldn't really look that great from the inside or outside.
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Floral wallpaper then?

No, I wasn't being entirely serious. The point I was trying to make was that as soon as you open the window, you lose the benefits of whatever you use to keep out the light.
 
Shackley said:
Floral wallpaper then?

No, I wasn't being entirely serious. The point I was trying to make was that as soon as you open the window, you lose the benefits of whatever you use to keep out the light.
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Eh?

Nobody says it has to keep out every tiny bit of light. It can still let air in. It's just that regular blinds tend to let an awful lot of light in, so much so that it can be like complete bright broad daylight in the room even with the blind fully down.
 
Dangerous said:
Me needs some of these its too bright in the mornings :o
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Mine used to be as well, but now the head end of my bed is under the window with my feet facing away. It's made so much difference.
 
I just went to the local sewing type shop (Which was just over the road from work) when I was in middlesbrough, and bought a 2 x 1.5 m bit of fleecy type black material. It was about 6" wider than the window at either side, and we had crappy blinds (student house) that kind of clipped into a frame/holder thing.

I just clipped the material over/in there with the blinds and let it hang down. Didn't let ANY light in at all, and cost me £8. Took about 20 seconds to put up/take down too -also doubles as a handy extra blanket for the bed in winter.
 
How do you go about fitting these blinds on the inside of a window frame, when you have a PVC frame/border/surround?

I've got curtains, but the sun still finds it way through those, enough to wake me up at 5am sometimes. :(
 
When I was working solid nights, the only way I could sleep during the day was in complete darkness.

The only way I found to acheive that was cardboard on the window with ducktape around the outsides. With the curtains, and blackout blinds pulled over that.
 
I have about £20 ones and they let light in around the edges but I can live with that. What I can't live with is the standby LED on the TV so I put duck tape over it :p
 
they are indeed awesome! I have them in my roof bedroom windows, totally blocks all light, however I recently have started to leave them slightly open, as 0 light in the morning, you still think its the middle of the night ! really throws ya,lol
 
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True but how good are they for sleeping the weekends away...aaaa so many good memorys of full days sleeping in my warm soft bed. I really want full black out again.
 
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