Blackout blind WITHOUT cords?

[Monkeybird]

Anyone know of a child-safe blackout blind without cords - eg perhaps one with one of those mechanisms where you pull the bottom and it sort of catches at the length you want it...?

Any suggestions or advice for brands or where to buy welcome...

velcro to the window frame ones - can't remember the company name at the mo, there used to be an advert for them at the top of the sleep section here? They don't look pretty, but they do a seriously good job of making the room dark!

There's that travel one which fixes onto the window with suckers? Baa Baa blind or something? It was in www.thebabycatalogue.com

I've seen something advertised recently to tie up blind cords out of harms way. Cant think where though. Could be worth looking out for that.

thanks everyone. Will look up the sucker/velcro options. Any more suggestions welcome.

dramaqueen, we had some of those in our old house (think we got em in Mothercare) but they were quite fiddly, make opening and closing the blind quite difficult and if you forget to do it etc etc... I was hoping for a simpler solution!

Good to know!

bumping for evening types - anyone else know any more sources of such blackout blinds (without cords)

If you want blackout roller blinds then you can either have a standard roller blind on a spring loaded mechanism where you pull it down at the bottom and it goes up (the way that they used to be made before side winders came along) - these are not particularly reliable in the long run as people tend to pull them too hard and they come off the rollers and/or pull them at an angle so they roll up unevenly, though if you are careful and don't let children get their hands on them they should be ok - these will let in a little bit of light around the edges but nothing serious. Or you can get blackout roller blinds which have side channels (a bit like the ones on velux roof blinds) that fit down the side of the window and the roller blind catches at the various heights along the sides - probably what you were describing tbh.

If you are after roman blinds or plisse blinds etc then that is a different game altogether! Can you tell that I sell them in my shop at work?

I bought some black out material, attached some stick-on velcro, and stuck it around the window inside the curtain. Easy to put up, easy to take down in the day, and the curtains hide the velcro strips around the window. Very cheap too.

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you can buy blackout blind material at John Lewis for £4.95 a metre. Cut a piece to fit your window snugly.

You can either punch a hole at each corner or put an eyelet in at each corner, then put a small right-angle hook at each corner of the window frame. We found this was plenty good enough to black out the window in dd's room, in addition to the normal curtain. dd's room gets the full blast of the evening sun in the summer, and we had no problems getting her off to sleep.

Tryt roller blind from Argos. lots of different colours, can cut to length, very easy to put up (drill? phah, who needs one when u have a screwdriver, lol) have looped bobbly plastic thingy to pull up and down, toddler shouldnt be able to reach it! (u can choose which side to put it on

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you are all wonderful geniuses...
will head straight off to JL for velcro, hooks, eyelets, fabric etc...

Or if feeling flush, will have a look at Velux. Thanks for the side-runners tip off - I hadn't actually thought of this idea but it's a good one, was thinking more of the spring mechanism but yeah remembered that those blinds have been easily demolished in past.

We've always had - in old house - the plastic bobbly cords too, but not sure they're any safer than string ones. Hence the request...