Gremlins

Image042.A papillon dog breeder in Bury St Edmunds needed some replacement slats for her vertical blinds in her conservatory. When I visited her house the papillons started making a terrible noise so she left me in the conservatory and went into the house to calm the dogs. After I had finished she ordered the new vertical blind slats and we agreed a date to fit the blinds.
The dogs started to bark again so I asked to see them. She led me to the the kitchen where the sight of so many small dogs reminded me of the film Gremlins.

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How to fit vertical blinds in conservatories

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Most of the time we have use right angled extendable face fix brackets to fit vertical blinds in conservatories.

The brackets have to be long enough to allow the vertical blind slats to be clear of the window handles when they are fully open. The vertical blind bracket is screwed into a nylon gromet which allows the blind positioned closer to or further from the window as required. This feature is useful when we need to run vertical blinds into the corners in conservatories.DSCF0696

Baileys Blinds offer a measuring and fitting service in the Bury St Edmunds and Brandon areas. For more information and to contact us visit www.baileysblinds.com

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Sloping Vertical Blinds in The Arc

Image030The flats above the Arc in Bury St Edmunds are now being snapped up by ‘buy to let’ landlords. Baileys blinds have installed vertical and velux blinds in several of the new flats. The top floor flats have a kitchen, dining and lounge area with one bedroom. The windows need dressing because they look directly into the flat opposite.
There are two sloping windows in the main living area. Baileys Blinds have already installed sloping vertical blinds in some of these flats. The sloping blinds rotate but the slats do not traverse across the window. It is possible to make sloping vertical blinds that traverse windows but we have found that when they are roughly handled the links which connect the slats break and the slats collapse to the bottom of the tracks. We therefore lock the blind slats in position which allows them to rotate but not traverse. Some landlords do not like this but Baileys Blinds have found this to be the most practical solution.

The image shows  the sloping vertical blind in Guardian beige fabric with 89mm slats rotated into the closed position. You can see the flat opposite through the open sliding balcony door. You can contact Baileys Blinds in Bury St Edmunds and Brandon through www.baileysblinds.com

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Fed up with vertical blind colour? Change the slats!

055We see many people in our blind showrooms in Bury St Edmunds and Brandon who want change the colour of their vertical blind slats. They move into a new house with existing vertical blinds or redecorate or just get fed up with the colours and want a change. Its very easy and relatively cheap to do assuming that the vertical blind track mechanism is still working because you are only paying to change the fabric.

We prefer for you to provide us with a sample slat as a pattern for the dimensions and to make sure that slat hangers on the new vertical blind slats will be compatible with your track mechanism.

For further information and to work out some prices visit www.baileysblinds.com or telephone Baileys Blinds on 01842 815300.

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Kittens

Visited a cat breeder in a village east of Bury St Edmunds to show her the roller blind colours in our catalogue for her conservatory. She wanted to change her vertical blinds for roller blinds because the cats enjoyed playing with the vertical blind weights and chains and had ruined them.

She kindly brought two newborn kittens from their mother to show me. They were inquisitive and very  cute but I wasn’t allowed to touch them in case their mother rejected them.

We have an on line roller  blind catalogue on our website www.baileysblinds.com (we dont sell cats but we know someone who does).

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Perfect Fit Venetian Blinds

063Becky needed something to dim out her ground floor bedroom because she had difficulty sleeping after her night shifts. French doors open out onto a patio area in the garden and she wanted something to provide shading on the windows without closing the curtains.

She doesn’t like vertical blinds and also felt that a large roller blind would be unsightly and impractical. I suggested wood effect 25 mm width aluminium venetian blinds mounted in Perfect Fit frames. This makes the venetian blinds appear to be part of the window.

We installed the blinds two weeks after receiving her order and she was very pleased saying that the blinds looked like shutters.They tilt and lift the same as venetian blinds do in conventional installations. If you need to know more come and see in our showrooms in Bury St Edmunds or Brandon or visit www.baileysblinds.com

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English rules OK (I’m afraid)

Venetian blinds in Sebert Wood Primary School

Venetian blinds in Sebert Wood Primary School

Some years ago I fitted some golden coloured venetian blinds for a young Indian couple who run a food wholesale business in Bury St Edmunds.

The customer was busy so his father let me into the house to install the venetian blinds. The father spoke perfect English and he said that he had driven lorries in India and said that his English had been of great help to him in India.

After travelling for several hours it was impossible to speak with the locals because their language would be completely different. If he was lost the only way to get directions was to find the police station. It is usually the only place in town to find somebody who will speak the same language, namely English.

To learn more about window blinds visit www.baileysblinds.com

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Back Door Blind

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One of my relatives recently had her kitchen replaced by MFI in Bury St Edmunds. The kitchen now looks light and modern. She is very pleased with the result.

She wanted to buy a new blind for the back door but thought it was impossible because there is not enough room for the blind between the door hinge and the wall return to allow the door to open fully. The solution was to install a perfect fit frame on the door and then  mount a blind in the frame which then becomes part of the door.

We installed a pleated blind covered in Madrid,  a Louvolite pleated fabric, which allowed us to install a matching Madrid vertical blind on the adjacent window.  We also offered a venetian blind but she preferred the pleated style.

If you would like to see our vertical blind or pleated blind catologues visit www.baileysblinds.com

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Roller blinds in the Cattle Market(arc) in Bury St Edmunds

Image012.The Cattle Market(arc) has opened for business in Bury St Edmunds.

Baileys Blinds of Bury St Edmunds have installed some roller blinds  in the display windows of the Debenhams store. The roller blinds are mounted in cassette boxes which are painted to match the colour of the window frames.

We provided handles for the window dressers by cutting semi circles out of the roller blinds using a sweet tin left over from Christmas.

Look out for the Baileys Blinds sticky labels in the Bury St Edmunds Debenhams store or visit www.baileysblinds.com.

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Sniffer Dogs

Baileys Blinds supply and install blinds in Haverhill in Suffolk.

One of  Baileys Blinds customers in Haverhill look after two search dogs. One of them detects drugs while the other is trained to detect mobile phones.

Mobile phones are prized assets in jails and the prison authorities are keen to detect and confiscate as many as possible. The sniffer dogs can smell the lithium batteries inside the mobile phones and can easily find the phones. It goes without saying that the prisoners do not like the search dogs.

I have been back to Haverhill to fit vertical blinds and roller blinds in the dogs house several more times. They are happy in their work.

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