INTU blackout blinds - a long shot, but has anyone got these?

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I've been looking for a blackout solution for a while now, and found these blinds
here

Has anyone got them? And if so, how blackout are they? It looks like a little light could still get in around the edges, so maybe not total. Blooming expensive too.

We've currently got the blackout fabric attached to the windows with a kind of strong blue tac, which is fab as a total blackout solution - but they go mouldy over the winter and its not nice not being able to get daylight into the children's rooms.

I've not got those but I do have a piece of b/o material attached to the wall like you but mine is attached with those little velcro sticky things so I can pull it off each morning (or not bother at all during the winter).

Mine's 3.9 and getting up early regardless too.

Thanks mejon - do you find that the material holds up to being pulled off all the time?

I remember we had an earlier version a few years back (where the material had velcro, and the window frame had velcro, and you matched them up, iyswim), but after a couple of months, the fabric just ripped away from the velcro. Our current version is the blue tack one, which is OK, but has gone mouldy over the winter, yuck.

Am currently using blackout material that I have attached self adhesive velcro along the whole lengths of sides, top and bottom and the same on window sill. After about 2 weeks, the sticky stopped being sticky on the fabric, so I have resorted to stapling the velcro strips to the material (sadly I don't have a sewing machine-if I did I would have sewn it on) - a point that may be useful is to make sure that the folded over part of the staple is on the window frame side so you don't rip your fingers on them when smoothing the velcro down (I did!!!). Have had mixed success - some days its 6.30 am which I can cope with, but we are still having a fair number of 5.30 am starts. Hope this helps.

Those blinds look great, we use velcro and blackout material but i hate the mouldy smell in the room. I'll be watching to see if anyone uses the above blinds. Wouldn't it be great to have shutters?

The sticky does tend to come off but like Warwickmum I had a cunning plan and have stapled on the rogue pads. It withstands me ripping it off from floor level each morning fairly intact. I've also got a blackout rollerblind underneath (and curtains too!) but the light comes through the edges on the blind.

I don't understand why you're getting mouldy smells in the room though - are you leaving them up all day or not opening the window?

At this time of year though I don't think it makes one jot of difference as DD was up at 5.30 this morning (possibly earlier but that's when I first heard her) and her room was still dark.

I'm considering using these:

www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/magic-blackout-blind/order/

I'm tired of the light in my own room mostly, but the DSs could do with it too. Like the fact they come down easy.

My friend who has an early waker made a full wooden box pelmet thing (going up the sides as well as along the top) with cheap wood and covered in material the same as her curtains, it totally blocks out the light too.

Why do you still need them up in the winter? It's dark then.