Total Blackout Blinds

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Is there such a thing?

Have just paid several hundred £ for door blinds that were supposed to be blackout, but chap said there is no way to get 100% blackout. They have a frame around the glass, but there there is lots of light coming in around edges.

Am just about to order more blinds for son's bedroom. Is there a product on the market for tilt-and-turn UPVC windows that is 100% blackout?

TIA!

External shutters are the only thing that completely black out all light. In France most houses have electric ones that go up and down at the touch of a button. I find it weird though that you can make a room completely dark in the middle of the day.

In DS's room we have blackout blinds AND curtains but there is still some light that gets in the room. It's dark enough for him to sleep though. I do want him to be able to sleep even when there's a bit of light; when we travel there's no way we could make every room he sleeps in pitch black.

My children (now teens) have a blackout roller blind fitted as close to the window handles are we could and then pencil pleat blackout curtains.

This makes the room very dark, but when they were little we would also put up those baa baa blackout travel blinds that you suckered to the window/window frame.

Dh and I have a weird system of horizontal Venetian blinds, then eyelet blackout curtains but obviously the eyelet nature of the curtains with the curtain pole makes it stand off the wall. So we actually attached a curtain ring to the curtain pole brackets and attached a carabiner clip through the top corners of two panels of blackout fabric. So they clip onto the curtain rings and sit behind the curtains against the window aperture. It works really well. You can remove the panels daily, we just unclip the middle ones and the panels hang down behind the curtains but only we see it.

Bloc blinds are very good

Bloc blinds or similar (search “cassette blinds side channel”) should do it.

As a cheaper alternative I’ve just bought these for the DDs’ rooms : www.amazon.co.uk/d/Home-Window-Blinds/Anytime-Perfect-Magnetic-LEAKAGE-blackout/B0189FQZ2O?tag=mumsnetforu03-21. Haven’t put them up yet but they get good reviews.

Second bloc blinds, total blackout!