How to Restring Day / Night Shades
Some notes from Foretravel owners
There are 3 Robertson screws holding the blinds in place. Look up to under valance and you will see. Undo them and it will come down. The restringing is actually quite simple to do but make sure you have the right size cord for it. We have had to restring many of our shades. Did them all ourselves on our bed.
- We remove valance screws, then shade mounting screws.
- Use long needle to string down right side from top to middle rail.
- Across middle rail, then down left side.
- Then across bottom rail to right wall spool.
- Same for other side, only reverse right and left.
Our last order from United Shades included:
- 1.4mm cord white #005
- Fawn C channel endcaps
- 1“ Endcaps Alabaster
Bobbin
- Bring two strings into bobbin holes from wall side in, with strings straddling screw. String holes down.
- Position bobbin so string holes are down and strings straddle screw.
- Start screw into wall with bobbin loose. Do not snug bobbin against wall.
- Pull strings tight through bobbin by pulling down on vertical strings above.
- Pulling strings through bobbin without ALSO pulling down on vertical strings will stress holes on bobbin
- Pull strings down with fingers way above bobbin to tighten tension.
- Check tension adjustment by strumming of strings.
- Tighten bobbin screw and wind excess string around bobbin, then knot.
A trick that I used successfully was to weld the new string to the old string by burning one string, blowing out the flame, and quickly fusing the new string to the old, end-to-end. It took a few tries to get a good weld, but worked very well for pulling the new string through the same route as the old string.