To expect blinds to shut properly?!

[WoodenBlinds]

I had new blinds fitted in a bay window and only one shots completely as shown in the picture.

When the installer was here, he tried to say that the middle one will never shut properly because it's so large and heavy. At the time I didn't think much of it, assuming he must be right as he's the expert and I've never had thick wooden blinds before. But it's only more recently that I noticed the other small blind also doesn't shut as well as the small blinds on the opposite side , neither of which are big and heavy like the central piece he was talking of.

I'm wondering what makes the blinds closed completely shot and is there anything that I can do to get the company to come back and installed incorrectly. Or is it simply the luck of the draw and done on a manufacturing level? A bit like patina in flooring, that can be variable.

That looks like a manufacturing fault to me and I think you are being fobbed off.

Here's a full picture

I had large blinds installed by a large national company and they were about 4 inches too short. The installer tried to tell me it would make it easier to dust the window sill. I rang head office and they agreed to take them back and sort them out. (I haven't made further purchases from that company and have instead used a small local business).

That's not right at all. Get on the phone to the company.

Thank you very much, I’ve emailed them. I really hope it will be okay because it's been a few months now, though I did raise it to the installer at the time, and he said he would feedback to the company on my behalf, and nobody has got back to me. I hope they won't try to further fob me off about this.

I can't see what is wrong? What am I missing? I have the same style and they don't close completely when tilting the slats. If you tilt them one way they shut better, but the other way they are quite open still. Mine are from blinds2go. I'll see if I have a picture.

I honestly don't understand what your pictures are supposed to show? Slatted horizontal blinds are not going to provide full blackout coverage during the day. Light will always bend around each slat slightly.
If you wanted full blackout you should have done a roller system.
If you close them the opposite way it will reduce the light more than the way you have them currently. Having them facing down in the middle of the day allows light to come in at the top of each slat more.

I've attached a couple of pictures (apologies most feature half figures asleep 🤣) to show how they are when closed. The 2nd and 3rd pic shows them closed each way, and as you can see one way is far better than the other

Sometimes with venetian blinds, you have to tug the string a bit harder than you think you should to get the slats aligned. I have cats, I used to have these blinds, I used to pull the strings hard quite a lot.

We had Venetian blinds in our old house and they never closed completely that way - you had to shut them "upside down" to get proper coverage.

This is the most hilarious dodgy workman excuse I have ever heard. Was it Hillary's by any chance? I have had a terrible experience with them.

It was indeed.

They're all closed the exact same way and yet from left to right, they're half poorly shut, fully poorly shut and brilliantly shut!

I get the whole one way better than the other thing, but even with that the results are the same: middle blinds in particular don't fully close but the end one does.

I also get you won't get blackout. I am not asking for blackout. I'm asking for them all to be like the end (far right) and not the middle.

Your first pic is terrible if it's fully shut! The second is also not brilliant and your third looks fine.

Yea that's why I should have mentioned I pulled them fully, any harder and I'd risk snapping it!