Day night shades

[big_jim_2]

Anybody besides me tired of restringing shades? I am looking for a different kind of shade that won't break. I don't care if they have the day feature as after 15 years we find we rarely use that feature. It seems that every year we are fixing one of the seven in our motorhome.

[ford_truck_guy]

My last fiver had strings that were bad.. I was just going threw the steps of learning how to restring when I traded it in..

My current fiver has day/night rollers.. I will not have blinds in an RV again after having these!

[jeeperdude10]

On our previous coach, a Class C, when our day/nights broke strings-we called Budget Blinds and had them install blinds. What a difference, no more hassle and ease of use. Just a suggestion to 'beat' the frustration

[FIRE_UP]

big jim 2 wrote:
Anybody besides me tired of restringing shades? I am looking for a different kind of shade that won't break. I don't care if they have the day feature as after 15 years we find we rarely use that feature. It seems that every year we are fixing one of the seven in our motorhome.

Big Jim 2,
Yep, I too am seriously tired of restringing. Our coach is 14 years old and, I've restrung some of those windows at least 3 times. I've been dabbling in looking at MCD roller shades, Blind Chalet's roller shades and even once in a while we'll look at what Home Depot and Lowes has to offer. The problem with MCD shades is THE COST. I'd have to sell my first born (she's close to 38 years old now) in order to ge a full set of replacement roller shades for our 14 year old coach.

Blind Chalets roller shades are an almost identical set of roller types like MCD and, are close to 1/2 the price. The problem is, Blind Chalet's are much harder to mount. Whereas, MCds are much easier to mount. So, you pay for that EASY install.

One of these days I'm gonna make a decision. One of those two will get the contract!
Scott

[tropical36]

big jim 2 wrote:
Anybody besides me tired of restringing shades? I am looking for a different kind of shade that won't break. I don't care if they have the day feature as after 15 years we find we rarely use that feature. It seems that every year we are fixing one of the seven in our motorhome.

Haven't had to do a lot of re-stringing and especially in this coach, but they are pretty tight and can be somewhat of a PITA for putting them up and down.
At home, we have went to something like these and must say they are a real blessing for more than one reason, so would first explore these in an RV application.... Blinds

[the_bear_II]

Maybe this will help if you don't already do it... We always travel with the shades pulled up tight. This helps keep the strings from getting sawed as you drive along.

We always travel this way and haven't had a string break in 15 years.