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SLiding Door In Bedroom Thomas 02-13-2007
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Posted by Thomas on February 13, 2007, 3:03 pm


Our bedroom has a 8ft sliding door. When I bought the house I had fabric
vertical blinds installed but with pets that was not the best choice. It
seems like a 8ft pull is a long way to pull blinds. Is there a way you can
put up a "dummy" curtain or anything to cover half of the opening and then
have blinds for the rest of it. Lets say a 4ft dummy something and then a
4ft blinds. My other question is can you get wooden blinds, vertical in 8ft
sizes or would that be too heavy? Thanks.

Tom



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Posted by avid_hiker on February 13, 2007, 3:26 pm


> Our bedroom has a 8ft sliding door. When I bought the house I had fabric
> vertical blinds installed but with pets that was not the best choice. It
> seems like a 8ft pull is a long way to pull blinds. Is there a way you can
> put up a "dummy" curtain or anything to cover half of the opening and then
> have blinds for the rest of it. Lets say a 4ft dummy something and then a
> 4ft blinds. My other question is can you get wooden blinds, vertical in 8ft
> sizes or would that be too heavy? Thanks.
>
> Tom

I am tryin very hard to picture this. Is this a 8ft wide or 8ft tall
sliding door, etc.........you need to give more info here.....such as
8ft wide X 6ft tall, etc etc.........and the same for this dummy vs.
blinds such as a 4ft x 6ft blind directly below a dummy sliding door
of 4ft x 6ft.

When you give this info.....I am sure someone out there can help you
out.


Posted by Edwin Pawlowski on February 13, 2007, 3:49 pm



>> Our bedroom has a 8ft sliding door. When I bought the house I had fabric
>> vertical blinds installed but with pets that was not the best choice. It
>> seems like a 8ft pull is a long way to pull blinds.

>
> I am tryin very hard to picture this. Is this a 8ft wide or 8ft tall
> sliding door, etc.........you need to give more info here.....

No, it is clear that it is an 8' slider. When talking doors like that, it
is always hte width as the height, with very few exceptions, is standard.
That is why it is a long pull for the 8' vertical blinds. Vertical blinds
are often used on sliders since they can move to the side.



Posted by mm on February 15, 2007, 6:05 pm


wrote:

>
>>> Our bedroom has a 8ft sliding door. When I bought the house I had fabric
>>> vertical blinds installed but with pets that was not the best choice. It
>>> seems like a 8ft pull is a long way to pull blinds.
>
>>
>> I am tryin very hard to picture this. Is this a 8ft wide or 8ft tall
>> sliding door, etc.........you need to give more info here.....
>
>No, it is clear that it is an 8' slider. When talking doors like that, it
>is always hte width as the height, with very few exceptions, is standard.
>That is why it is a long pull for the 8' vertical blinds. Vertical blinds
>are often used on sliders since they can move to the side.

But I still don't get it. You don't have to pull the rope 8 feet. It
starts to open immediately. If you pull the rope 4 feet it will be
half way open, and the rest of the curtains will cover the closed
part.

OT, I have my bed below the window. The window is wider than a king
size bed. The rope that came with it was verrry long, so I put a
pully at the bottom right side of the window frame, and the spring-
mounted pully at the bottom left side. The original rope was long
enough. Now the rope goes along the entire window sill along the
entire head of the bed, and I don't even have to sit up in bed to open
or close the curtains. It's been working great like this for more
than 20 years. Every few years I check the right side pully and once
I had to adjust it a little.


Posted by on February 15, 2007, 6:43 pm



> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> Our bedroom has a 8ft sliding door. When I bought the house I had
>>>> fabric
>>>> vertical blinds installed but with pets that was not the best choice.
>>>> It
>>>> seems like a 8ft pull is a long way to pull blinds.
>>
>>>
>>> I am tryin very hard to picture this. Is this a 8ft wide or 8ft tall
>>> sliding door, etc.........you need to give more info here.....
>>
>>No, it is clear that it is an 8' slider. When talking doors like that, it
>>is always hte width as the height, with very few exceptions, is standard.
>>That is why it is a long pull for the 8' vertical blinds. Vertical blinds
>>are often used on sliders since they can move to the side.
>
> But I still don't get it. You don't have to pull the rope 8 feet. It
> starts to open immediately. If you pull the rope 4 feet it will be
> half way open, and the rest of the curtains will cover the closed
> part.
>
A lot of people don't realize you can string traverse curtain rods to be
center opening or one-end-opening, like you describe. That is exactly what I
did in my previous apartment with the slider there, and seldom had it open
all the way. The curtain rod could care less where the end-brackets are in
the loop. Just take one of the overlapping brackets off, tie the cord ends
together, and move the little plastic things to the other side of the
remaining bracket. Lay it out on the ground and play with it- it isn't hard
to figure out. (If I can do it, anyone can do it.)

aem sends...




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