Product Characteristic Guidance

Day and night roller blinds

Typical product characteristics of day and night roller blinds.

Also know by the following names.

• Vision blinds
• Zebra blinds
• Day and Night

Fauxwood Venetian blinds

As faux wood Venetian blinds are made from a synthetic material, typically PVC, they are heavier than other types of blinds, including real wood blinds. You may find that raising faux wood Venetians requires some effort.

Cassetted dimout blinds

These are fully cassetted roller blind systems and include the following.

• Umbra Kurolok
• SHY Zip
• Louvolite Blockout Roller Blinds

Pleated and honeycomb blinds

This covers a great many blinds in various configurations, for example

• Cellular blinds
• Absolute blinds
• Motion blinds
• Duette blinds
• Pleated blinds
• Honeycomb blinds

There is some specific information below relating to rooflight blinds, click to see

Aluminium Venetian blinds

Venetian blinds made from aluminium slat materialt

Wood Venetian blinds

Venetian blind made from real wood

• Timberlux
• Sunwood
• S:Craft Serino

Vertical blinds

Vertical blinds with vertical hanging louvres

Roman blinds

Soft fabric blinds that pleat up when they are lifted.

Roller blinds

Roller blinds are one of the most common blinds sold in the UK

Internal shutters

Internal plantation shutters, can be made from plastic, wood and various composite materials

Folding arm awnings

Patio awnings for external sun and rain protection

ZIP Rooflight Characteristics

ZIP rooflight systems can suffer from some characteristics that may not be obvious at first sight. Please see the following document from Umbra blinds, the supplier of the Kurolok RL system, which contains some information specific to ZIP style rooflight blinds.

Roller Blind Characteristics

Large Roller blind systems can suffer from some characteristics that may not be obvious at first sight. Please see the following document from Umbra blinds, with some useful information.

Visible tensioned cords

Rooflight blinds will have multiple tensioned cords that run from one end of the window opening to the other. These cords will be visible whan the blind is opened and are required for support of the fabric.

If you would prefer a system with less visible cords we have the excellent TrueVue blinds system and Umbras Kurolok Systems.

- See a video of the Truevue system here

Visible fabric bowing

Rooflight blinds can have a tendancy for the fabric to sag slightly across the length of the fabric. This is simply gravity doing what it does. The larger the blind the more pronounced this effect can be. For this reason it better to have rooflight blinds fitted away from the bottom edge of the window reveal.

On rooflight windows we can reduce this effect by adding optional side channels that help to support the fabric and reduce the bowing effect.

Visible gaps and light bleed

Standard cellular rooflight blinds have a gap down the sides of the blind that can lead to excess light leakage. This is more prominent when a blackout fabric is used and when the inside of the reveal is not straight.

We can reduce this effect significantly by adding optional side channels that give the blind a much more fitted look and reduce any light creeping around the edges.

- See a video of a rooflight blind without side channels

- See a video of a rooflight blind with side channels