Well gang,
I looked into Blind Chalet and their version of roller blinds a couple of years ago. If I recall, at least in the manual version, a Blind Chalet (United) that was/is the exact same size as an MCD version, was/is close to about 1/2 price of the MCDs. Since it's been a while, I'd have to recheck that to be sure. It wasn't only the price that I was investigating. It was the mounting systems for both. The mounting system for the United ones back when I was checking them out, could come in two different fashions.
The ends of the rollers either had wall mounting or ceiling mounting. Ceiling mounting meaning they would mount to the underside of a valance, not the ceiling of the coach. MCD shades have a seriously easier mounting system. It's a form of a clip that is mounted on the underside of the valance. Then, the frame of the MCD shades is "clipped" into those clips, DONE. In case any of you are familiar with horizontal mini-blinds, they have the same style clip for the center of longer mini-blinds.
The problem we have, in our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT is, the valances are not very deep. That makes it impossible to get a screw driver, with screws, to mount the United type shades up into and inside, our valances. And, not all of our valances are built the same. Some are stand-alone and some are part of the bottom of a cabinet and or sides.
In the video that the OP links, it appears maybe that the mounting system of the United version roller shades, have changed. That video shoes a very easy mounting, IF YOU HAVE A COMPLETELY BLANK WALL, ON THREE SIDES OF A WINDOW. Of course it would only take two minutes to mount that style system. But, when you have to deal with factory, very hard to remove valances, the "Two minute mounting" is out the window, (so to speak).
If any of you have side valances that encapsulate both sides of your present day-night shades, you'll know what I'm dealing with. I'm tired of re-stringing day-night shades. Done it many times and, am fed up with it. I want roller shades.
I dealt with the two women at Blind Chalet way back when I was investigating and, like has been stated, those two were an absolute pleasure to deal with. They bent over backwards to work with their roller shade builders to send me a couple of ends of their roller shades so I could experiment with their mounting system and see if it would work.
At present, I'm still battling which system I want to use. MCD is superior in ease of mounting but, SERIOUSLY more costly per blind. The thought of removing the side valances so we could purchase and use this new version of United rollers is not sitting well with both of us.
Scott
I looked into Blind Chalet and their version of roller blinds a couple of years ago. If I recall, at least in the manual version, a Blind Chalet (United) that was/is the exact same size as an MCD version, was/is close to about 1/2 price of the MCDs. Since it's been a while, I'd have to recheck that to be sure. It wasn't only the price that I was investigating. It was the mounting systems for both. The mounting system for the United ones back when I was checking them out, could come in two different fashions.
The ends of the rollers either had wall mounting or ceiling mounting. Ceiling mounting meaning they would mount to the underside of a valance, not the ceiling of the coach. MCD shades have a seriously easier mounting system. It's a form of a clip that is mounted on the underside of the valance. Then, the frame of the MCD shades is "clipped" into those clips, DONE. In case any of you are familiar with horizontal mini-blinds, they have the same style clip for the center of longer mini-blinds.
The problem we have, in our '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD with the C-7 330HP CAT is, the valances are not very deep. That makes it impossible to get a screw driver, with screws, to mount the United type shades up into and inside, our valances. And, not all of our valances are built the same. Some are stand-alone and some are part of the bottom of a cabinet and or sides.
In the video that the OP links, it appears maybe that the mounting system of the United version roller shades, have changed. That video shoes a very easy mounting, IF YOU HAVE A COMPLETELY BLANK WALL, ON THREE SIDES OF A WINDOW. Of course it would only take two minutes to mount that style system. But, when you have to deal with factory, very hard to remove valances, the "Two minute mounting" is out the window, (so to speak).
If any of you have side valances that encapsulate both sides of your present day-night shades, you'll know what I'm dealing with. I'm tired of re-stringing day-night shades. Done it many times and, am fed up with it. I want roller shades.
I dealt with the two women at Blind Chalet way back when I was investigating and, like has been stated, those two were an absolute pleasure to deal with. They bent over backwards to work with their roller shade builders to send me a couple of ends of their roller shades so I could experiment with their mounting system and see if it would work.
At present, I'm still battling which system I want to use. MCD is superior in ease of mounting but, SERIOUSLY more costly per blind. The thought of removing the side valances so we could purchase and use this new version of United rollers is not sitting well with both of us.
Scott
