Ah, mornings.
Dec. 15th, 2007 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_dreamsWent to open the kitchen blinds, and they promptly fell on my head.
Okay, not quite on my head--the valence support in the middle stayed in place, so when the plastic split in half by the right bracket, the whole thing didn't come crashing down. In addition to the top being really messily split, though, the metal rod that runs through the top of the blinds is bent at about 20 degrees. Utterly non-salvageable.
Checked the back room, and discovered that I'd remembered correctly; when I moved in, there was a set of white blinds (actually nicer than the weird beige-pink ones that were up), the right size for the window, still neatly wrapped and sitting in their box. Perfect. I figured I'd slip open the brackets, drop the new ones in, and carry on.
The person who installed the beige-pink blinds--the perfectly standard-sized beige-pink blinds that would have fitted the window quite nicely, judging by the sticker still clinging to their spine[1]--sawed perhaps an inch off each end. And then mounted the brackets. So they're currently much too close together for an un-sawn set of blinds to fit.
I can either whip out the saw and hack up the nice new fresh-out-of-the-box blinds or (probably the better option) take a screwdriver to all the old fittings, get them down, measure and mark, and reinstall everything from scratch.
But bugger this for a game of larks I am finishing my coffee first.
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[1] Really, if this isn't what you call the bar across the top of the blinds from which the slats depend and through which the cords of the blind run, I don't know why not.
Okay, not quite on my head--the valence support in the middle stayed in place, so when the plastic split in half by the right bracket, the whole thing didn't come crashing down. In addition to the top being really messily split, though, the metal rod that runs through the top of the blinds is bent at about 20 degrees. Utterly non-salvageable.
Checked the back room, and discovered that I'd remembered correctly; when I moved in, there was a set of white blinds (actually nicer than the weird beige-pink ones that were up), the right size for the window, still neatly wrapped and sitting in their box. Perfect. I figured I'd slip open the brackets, drop the new ones in, and carry on.
The person who installed the beige-pink blinds--the perfectly standard-sized beige-pink blinds that would have fitted the window quite nicely, judging by the sticker still clinging to their spine[1]--sawed perhaps an inch off each end. And then mounted the brackets. So they're currently much too close together for an un-sawn set of blinds to fit.
I can either whip out the saw and hack up the nice new fresh-out-of-the-box blinds or (probably the better option) take a screwdriver to all the old fittings, get them down, measure and mark, and reinstall everything from scratch.
But bugger this for a game of larks I am finishing my coffee first.
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[1] Really, if this isn't what you call the bar across the top of the blinds from which the slats depend and through which the cords of the blind run, I don't know why not.
