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The brackets for my Levolor solar shades do look like this. They have tabs that fit into each end of the roller. One end of the roller has a 3/4-inch spring-loaded device and the other end has the pull chain mechanism. The instructions do not explain how close the brackets should be installed to each end of the roller. In particular, can the bracket for the spring-loaded end be placed so the bracket tab fits anywhere within the 3/4-inch device?
We installed two last night. The tips in the comments were helpful! 1. Examine how the snap-ins work before you start. Snapping it in took about 10 seconds and was super easy! 2. Use a 3/32 bit like it says in the video instead of the 1/16 it says on the instructions. The first one we installed took FOREVER because the screws included with the kit were flathead and very shallow. We used the 1/16 bit on this one too so these were a huge pain in the butt to screw in 😵💫. Took about an hour and a half. THANKFULLY the second one included Phillips head screws and the entire install took 15 mins. Love the shades, they totally block all the light!
We installed two last night. The tips in the comments were helpful! 1. Examine how the snap-ins work before you start. Snapping it in took about 10 seconds and was super easy! 2. Use a 3/32 bit like it says in the video instead of the 1/16 it says on the instructions. The first one we installed took FOREVER because the screws included with the kit were flathead and very shallow. We yawed the 1/16 bit on this one too so these were a huge pain in the butt to screw in 😵💫. Took about an hour and a half. THANKFULLY the second one included Phillips head screws and the entire install took 15 mins. Love the shades, they totally block all the light!
My Home Decorators Shades from Home Depot would not retract at all. I tried pulling straight down with no luck. I used the 45-degree method, and it fixed it. Thank you.
This works, but you have to pull it at a 45 degree angle from the window. She does not do this in this video! Once I did the 45 degree angle, it worked right away!
Several comments here mention difficulty snapping the headrail into the brackets. For the headrail that is rounded, first hang the top front lip of the headrail onto the top metal tabs of each bracket. Then rotate the headrail downward to snap it into place. To make this easier try rotating the headrail downward with one hand, while reaching behind the shade material to push upward on the underside of the headrail at each bracket (snap in one bracket at a time).
We have an older set of Levolor blinds and they work great. These are clearly a step down in quality, both quality of materials and aesthetics. Many great comments here that match our own experience installing these. Fairly straightforward but without this video, installing the clips for valence would have taken longer--the written instructions and diagram are 99.994% useless. If you're lucky enough to have access to Robertson (square) head screws, throw away the Philips (star) head screws (I hate those screws). Also, the screws for mounting the upper brackets don't need to be as long as the ones supplied, assuming you are screwing into a solid wood frame.
Poor quality. Bought 2 1/2 blinds - the valance does not snap into place. Cheap, flimsy plastic mounting clips need to be fixed. Do not recommend these blinds.
WRONG WRONG WRONG! When it comes to the part about “snapping “ the shade into the bracket she is WRONG. After fighting with this for 30 minutes (we had to replace our continuous cord loop) doing it this way- putting the bottom on the spring, pushing back while rotating the top- my DH resorted to logical reasoning. If when removing the shade you have to first push the bracket spring on the bottom inward to release, logically you would reverse sequence and that would be the last step when putting the shade back up. It worked first try.
I just bought 2 Levolor Trim and go blinds for my windows. Just a heads up when you're ready to begin. The brackets are stuffed into the middle of the header, not the end and almost impossible to get out. They don't slide out like this video shows. You have to bend both the headrail and the metal rod inside the headrail just to pull them out. I got mine out without too much damage. But scratches and bends are no way to start. If you wreck something trying to do it, the big box store will probably exchange the blind. Then you can have them remove the brackets on the new one right at the store, so you won't have to mess with them.
Exactly , video always makes it look easier than it really is , you learn from the first install. My Levolor blinds I installed over ten years ago don't raise and close near as easy of these new models they have now.
I've had this problem on a couple of shades (not Levolor brand, but the all say same thing), and I can't seem to get this to fix it. BUT I wanted to comment that EVERY time I see this and they say "45 degree angle" I laugh because none of this folks must remember geometry. They are usually doing it about 20 or 30 degrees - at most. For it to be 45 degrees, it would have to be halfway out between the floor and the ceiling!
My brackets look difrerent. Therey'r mostly plastic with metall attached. There are no words on them -- doesn't say "top" anywhere so thanks Levelor for wasting my time on this useless video. I prefer to to guess on how to configure this.
PLEASE HELP I've had these blinds for two years and love them. HOW do the cord minders work? if you screw them down then there is no action. It makes the spring and the cord grabber useless. I have racked my brain and looked up videos like this and it isnt explained. PLEASE and THANKS!
These are terrible. And they’re expensive. I bought a bunch of them and every single one of them when I raise them perfectly from the center never wanna stay horizontal. Is there a fix for that because there’s no videos on your website that I can find regarding that problem. I spent a lot of money on these and I wanna throw them in the trash.
Can you make a video to show how to raise them so they’ll stay horizontal? I paid a ton of money for my honeycomb blinds and all of them are a pain in the butt and I want to throw them out. I roll them straight up from the center and they always want to lean to one side super super annoying unless there’s an easy fix you can show me I will never buy a Levolor blind again.
How about when they don’t stay horizontal. I paid a ton of money for these shades, and they are the biggest pain in the butt to get to stay straight if at all.
