How To Release An Over-Tightened Shade Spring 

Your tip how to release stuck window shade spring was a great help. My shade is working normally now. Great job! Keep helping mechanically challenged people. Salam NYC

Thank you so much for posting this video. Another blind has been saved!

Thank you for this video!! Am going right now to try this! Been sleeping in a room with a shade hand-rolled all the way down for months. Kept trying to find someone on the internet that knew what they were doing for the old-fashioned spring shades. All I could find until now was 'how to fix the tension to make the shade roll up again', not anyone who could tell me how to fix the shade where the spring is so tight-wound that it's seized. Am hoping your instructions will work. Will report back. YEEESSSS!!! Worked like a charm! Was a little hesitant to break something, but figured if it's already broken, what do I have to lose? So kept playing with it with the pliers, and SNAP! It finally released and unwound!! (Then it was too loose, but I knew what to do about that... windey, windey, windey with the roller to wind up the fabric until spring gets tighter again.) Working perfectly! Thank you, Andrew Mazer! This senior lady will not be awakened all night now by all the motion-detecting security lights, nor will I be stuck in a dark room all day because the blinds won't go up or down. So happy right now. :D

THANK YOU!! I was getting frustrated sodecided to put the installation on hold until i saw your video. 🙏 🤲

Thank you so much for your very clear & instructional video. I've been making due with a ratty curtain over my bedroom window for a few weeks. You're right on about that really loud spring recoil - it made me jump! So glad to have my roller shade back up and working now.

Thank you for your video. Two years later and it's still helping people like me.

Awesome explanation. Just what I needed to fix my 90-year-old father’s shades. Thank you, Sir! 😉

Thank you sooooo much! I had been sleeping with my blinds rolled for days, cause they wouldn't cone down. Thanks to you video I fixed them!! Thanks for the warning on the kick back, it was really loud! Thanks!!

That worked great. Now the shade has the opposite problem. It won’t stay down. When I pull it down, it won’t stay down. Like it isn’t catching on whatever it’s supposed to be catching on.

Thank you. I did that with the pliers and then it was way too flabby but I eventually got it figured out. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for making this nice video with such clear directions! Thanks to you I now have a pair of pliers and can fix my shades, when they're fixable which is wonderful. Plus, thanks to your great lesson, the maintenance people in the apartment complex where I live can have less need to visit me and we're all safer from covid.

You seem like the only guy on the internet that can fix a shade. My (almost) brand new shade is stuck in the "half way up" position and I can't even turn it by hand to raise it any further. I pulled it all the way down and all that does is get is stuck somewhere further down. It isn't too loose to raise...it's just not going anywhere. Unfortunately it's a BIG shade. Any hope?

You weren't kidding about that kick back, I saw sparks!

Awesome! Clear instructions, I was having trouble with my roller blinds. Thanks for sharing this tips.

Love a quick fix! Alleluia! Yes, that worked exactly like your demo. Thanks so much! Not sure how the thing got so tight! Done!

Thanks so much! You are a blessing to me!

Excellent! Fixed my problem in 1 minute.

Thanks so helpful!!

Worked like a charm, ty, ty!

Thank you!

Thanks again for your help

Really appreciate the video. I have 3 windows on the same wall and i can never get the 3 shades to stop at the same height. I can usually get 2 to be at the same height but the 3rd shade will be a half inch higher or lower. Would like to get them all to the same height. Any suggestions? Thanks you!

Thanks so much!!!

Thanks

Thank you!!!

Place the shade back in brackets unroll about 18", roll back up remove from brackets unroll about 18" put back in brackets, should be at preferred tension

How can I tell if my spring is shot?

Mine has good spring tension but when it's in the down position I can't seem to get it to unlock and go back up, any ideas?

Thanks dude!!

Hi. It seems like the spring broke on my blinds. There isn't any tension at all. When I roll them down halfway, it makes "clanking" noises. The blinds do not stay when they are rolled down halfway either. It falls down. All of this started from when I heard a "bang" sound. I went to check what it was, and saw that my blinds were rolled down completely. I suspect that something is going on with the spring inside. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :(

Why won't my window shade stay down

Two of my roller shades come down & up but won't stick down at any position. I don't see anything here with that problem. Can you give any suggestions please?

My Roman blinds won't stay halfway. They won't lock. Is this a tension problem with the spring?

How to fix the roller that won't click in ?? Thx

What if it worked and the spring release tention, but when I try to retighten like the first video and it doesnt worked?

I tried this and the tab snapped off! Is this a replaceable part?

Thank you!

How can you tell if it's to tight or to loose? Mine won't do anything