Truth or Myth? Day/Night Pleated Shades

After the couple of centuries it will take for the sun to impact the shade, it will be time to re-decorate anyway. :)

It may not be pretty, but I cut-to-fit some of those cheap windshield reflective protector things and wedged them into the sunnyside windows, behind the blinds. We're parked in one spot and just take them out when we arrive. No one else can see that side from the road anyway. Makes a helluva difference.

The dealer told us the same thing. But we keep our down unless we are using the camper. When we put them up, sometime we have to work the pleats a little but it is not a problem. I don't want the sun to fade furniture or wood.

Gooselover wrote:
We were told to keep our pleated window day/night shades UP because otherwise they would "lose their pleats? Is this true??????? We are concerned about keeping their UP as it could fade furniture and wood.

What do YOU do?

Someone shoveled you a lot of BS.

cpaulsen wrote:

laknox wrote:

Gooselover wrote:
We were told to keep our pleated window day/night shades UP because otherwise they would "lose their pleats? Is this true??????? We are concerned about keeping their UP as it could fade furniture and wood.

What do YOU do?

I wish I'd put something in the windows, behind the shades. Even with the shades down, we have severe fading of wallpaper, fabric, wood and linoleum. Also, the shade tie-downs are plastic and most have broken, causing the strings to come loose. When that happens, you can no longer put the shades up. Just a totally dumb thing to do.

Lyle

Used to be that you could go to WM and buy steel sewing machine bobbins. I did that on a couple of 5vers. The metal bobbins don't break like the plastic ones.

Just another 'roundtuit that the 11 miles to the storage site puts a crimp on. That, and a job, and a daughter getting married in April, honey-dos... :-)

Lyle

One of our windows the night shade is always down. I decided to open it for the first time in two years. The pleats were mostly gone. It took about 5 minutes to refold the creases to lift the blind. It's fine again now that it was up for a couple of days.

Old-Biscuit wrote:
You were told wrong!

Inform that person that they are spreading mis-information' and to stop it

Every time I do that here on this forum, my posts get deleted.

:(

laknox wrote:

Gooselover wrote:
We were told to keep our pleated window day/night shades UP because otherwise they would "lose their pleats? Is this true??????? We are concerned about keeping their UP as it could fade furniture and wood.

What do YOU do?

I wish I'd put something in the windows, behind the shades. Even with the shades down, we have severe fading of wallpaper, fabric, wood and linoleum. Also, the shade tie-downs are plastic and most have broken, causing the strings to come loose. When that happens, you can no longer put the shades up. Just a totally dumb thing to do.

Lyle

Used to be that you could go to WM and buy steel sewing machine bobbins. I did that on a couple of 5vers. The metal bobbins don't break like the plastic ones.

Gooselover wrote:
We were told to keep our pleated window day/night shades UP because otherwise they would "lose their pleats? Is this true??????? We are concerned about keeping their UP as it could fade furniture and wood.

What do YOU do?

I wish I'd put something in the windows, behind the shades. Even with the shades down, we have severe fading of wallpaper, fabric, wood and linoleum. Also, the shade tie-downs are plastic and most have broken, causing the strings to come loose. When that happens, you can no longer put the shades up. Just a totally dumb thing to do.

Lyle

BB_TX wrote:
Myth. Ours stay down when traveling and for months at a time when in storage. No problem after 7 years.

Same time (will be 8 years old in April), same story (down), same pleats..:C.

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