To be disappointed with these blinds?

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Had blinds fitted throughout the house. Asked for the best blinds for blackout for my DD who works shifts. He said the perfect fit blackout.

We’ve gone ahead with a mix of different types of blinds fitted all throughout.

A different guy fit the perfect fit ones, and as he was fitting I said we got them for the above reason, and he said you will a small band of light around the edge (not mentioned on ordering).

So AIBU to be disappointed with this fit, is this normal for ‘perfect fit’ or a worth a complaint? They are not much better then the black our roller blinds in the other rooms.

We have these but yours seem to have a wider gap than ours. There’s a hint of light that comes through but that’s it. Did you get the double thickness? Just wondering if that makes a difference?

If the blades of the blind went all the way up to touching the edge, then you'd have too much friction to rotate them so they'd get stuck.

I think the blackout bit refers to the material they are made from being opaque, and as there isn't much light seeping between the blades then this bit works well.

For total blackout, you need one of those pull down blinds in a frame where the edges are fitted into the frame so once it is shut you have absolutely on light coming through.

I would speak to the shop as it was total black out you were after rather than just good blackout blinds, so sounds like you haven't explained properly what you were after or they haven't understood. Did you make it clear that you wanted total blackout with no light coming through at all?

I told the bloke that came out for measuring up that we wanted the best type of blinds for black out in that room due to the shift working and he said we should get the perfect fit black out. Now I’m not sure either side asked for / said it would be total black out but equally I wasn’t told until fitting there would be a strip of light all the way round.

I ordered exact same this month and am equally disappointed. They cost me over £400 too. I’ve remedied it by buying two £19 black out roller blinds from IKEA which sit outside the window recess and they drop with the drop side almost completely against the wall. I also manually push the roller blind edge towards the wall each night to ensure a better fit. You can see a window on the right without the IKEA roller blind added and a window on the left which is hardly letting any light through at all - this has the IKEA roller added. I’m about to fit an IKEA blind to the second window this week.

Thanks for the comparison. It’s really disappointing, if I had known I would need to add curtains / a second blind I would have gone for the cheaper version. These cost £270, the black out roller in my other child’s room cost £90 and isn’t hugely different in terms of blackout.

I also made sure I fit the added IKEA blind quite a distance above the top of the window recess to avoid light leaking out the top. They start maybe 10-12 cm above the window recess.

I’ve got a blackout roller blind in my current bedroom, and I’m planning a blackout Roman blind in my next one as I was previously told these are better for light blocking - i would like better coverage.

we have cassetted blackout blinds from Bloc Blinds. They really block out all the light, with them closed, the room is very dark even in broad daylight. They were not too expensive.

We have perfect fit blackout blinds and they are the same as yours.

We measured and ordered ourselves directly though so we knew it was just the fabric that was blackout, and they are much better than the non blackout ones we have elsewhere. We have a blackout roller blind over the top and the room is pretty dark but not blackout - but that’s what we wanted as I like knowing whether or not it’s the middle of the night from the tiny crack of light we can see.

Agree re bloc blinds. They’re fully black out. We got for my kids as they wake with the sun. Nothing will be black out unless it slots into something down the edge

This is my perfect fit blind from Blinds 2 Go.

This is right now at 7:23. It’s better than yours. I think you should complain

I think this is what I was expecting. Thanks

Bloc Out

Agree with previous posters that Bloc Out is the way to go, keeps the entire room in complete darkness even in the middle of the day if you have them closed. They also have high tech versions if you want to be fancy (and spend more money)