RV blinds

I bought a big roll of string off of Amazon and it was pretty cheap. When I did the re-stringing I used some instructions with pictures I downloaded on line. All in all pretty easy.

If you find string that matches close to factory at Hobby Lobby or such, how does it compare to quality of factory string? Reason I ask is that we just re-did a 4 string shade (would've had to be the biggest one) again this past weekend and I did it a just a couple years ago. Don't think the string O got was all that great. See how this string holds up.

I took a piece of the string to a fabric shop and bought 150 ft of the same size. Over the past 9 years I have restrung all 10 shades in our fiver at least once. Not a big problem, once you figure it out and follow the instructions.as others have said.

I had to restring 7 of them this last winter as the blinds are 10 years old and all the strings were failing. I got my things at dirty blind man .com. I bought a 150 ft roll of cord and had to order another one to finish up the last 2 I need to do. They are not that hard after you mastered the first one. He has specialized kits for your size of blinds but doing the math it was way cheap to get the roll of cord.

The best way to fix pleated shades is to replace them with MCD roller shades. They cost more but are much better.

I had 3 blinds go bad, I removed them from the wall and found a sticker from a place in Goshen Indiana that was the original Mfg. looked up phone # and called them, Gave them the Numbers on the sticker and they sent me new ones. Originals were 7 yrs old so with the numbers they were able to match them.
Not Very pricey either

Just heat the string with a match on the end. Run it through your fingers quickly and you will not need any tool, wax, glue, etc. The cord becomes pointed. I can run the string to the entire shade in a few seconds. Fixmyblinds is a great site. The supplies are more expensive, but you are going to get the correct length and size of string. I purchase a spool on Black Friday from Hobby Lobby and fix shades all winter FREE!! I also have a supply of parts to repair 99% of the blinds. The large rear window are very difficult. You will have approximately 16 FT. when you thread the spline through the bracket. This is a 3 person job. One on each side of the picnic table and one at the end balancing the large project. Try not to do one of these first. You will become quickly discouraged. I also mark the top of each section with masking tape and number 1, 2, 3, and 4. It helps to have the parts numbered when you reassemble. It will always show you top and bottom.

We have done three restrings to our day night shades the last one being the large one in the rear window.
Fixmyblinds is a good site and follow the videos, but look carefully at how your blind is currently strung as we found out that the last one we did(large back window) was strung differently then what was shown on the website.
Another simple thing to do that makes this project so much simpler is melt candle wax onto the end of your blind cord it makes threading through the holes so much simpiler no fraying, etc.
If you are doing it for first time use more cord than less, excess cord after restringing cuts off easily but adding on to too short is not.

If the little plastic spindles have broken, simply get a couple sewing machine bobbins, paint them white (or whatever color you like), and screw them in place of the plastic ones.

Lyle

I have done it and it is not a problem to do.