How to Restring a Hunter Douglas Top Down Bottom Up Cellular Honeycomb Shade 

Well done! This is one of the best how to videos I've ever had the privilege of using. Perfectly scripted, shot, lit, edited and narration and the demonstration was clear, well paced and easy to follow! I've produced over a couple dozen how to videos for consumer products and you guys knocked it out of the park. Thank you for making such a well done resource available.

I just used this tutorial and the diagram on the website to restring an 3 string Alta top down-bottom up honeycomb shade that is about 15 yrs old. For anyone who needs the info, the Alta is like the old style Hunter Douglas (washers on the bottom rail) except that the middle rail uses triangular pieces that tie on instead of the nice equalizers. I tied them like the washers on the bottom rail and it seems ok. I also didn't realize that of course I would need 6 strings rather than 3. I would've needed 7 more feet than I ordered so I trimmed a little off each and more off the center. Basically, I measured from the holes to the window frame for width (instead of the whole window width for each string) so I saved a little on each end string and and more in the middle. I still had plenty. Thank you so much for this video. I literally watched a step, paused the video, did the step, repeat. I saved a lot of money and the blind is working before company arrives! My husband is slightly stunned 😉

Thank you so much for these incredibly clear instructions! I just fixed a 25 year-old Hunter Douglas shade with a broken string. Now it glides like new.

Needed to combine two of your videos switching back and forth to restring my Great Windows Blinds, but it worked! Thank you so much for your close shots and step by step instructions.

Excellent tutorial: very clear and helped me restring an aging but otherwise functional blind with a broken string.

Our 82" wide by 52" tall shade has 4 lines up and 4 lines down. Using the formula of 2x width plus height made for a lot of extra work (18' cords!) Ended up cutting off several feet but better too long than too short! Thanks for the instruction!

Top notch instructions. I restrung a 19+ year old blind perfectly, using your video.

Wow! One of the best how-to videos EVER. Deeply grateful.

Thank you so much for posting this. I had to re-string a levelour lace blind. I'm so glad because the one I have has been discontinued. This video helped me from start to finish just perfect!

Simple, brief, organized and clear. Thank you very much!

Wow…i was the last person to comment and here I am again. I just sent you an email with the new issue! Thanks

Fantastic tutorial. Easy to follow instructions.

turned a long, drawn-out job into an easy one. Thanks!

It doesn't tell you to cut four strings. The diagram clearly shows there are two top-down and two bottom-up strings, but it never tells you that. I only cut two strings and was very confused until I came back to the diagram. It would be helpful to have better information about the length of each string, rather than cutting four all the same length.

I wish you would have explained in the beginning that the "old-style" instructions don't start until 7 minutes into the video.

So helpful! Thank you!

Thank you so much this was a huge help!

My blind has 3 vertical string. How do I fix it? Do you have videos for it? Thanks

So glad I found this video, thank you so much!

This was invaluable to me! Thank you!

I'm in the process of restringing my Top Down - Bottom Up Cellular Honeycomb Shade (Hunter Douglas). I know I need four strings, however my question is...Are all the strings the same size? 58.5" is the length and 46" is the width. I have the formula to cut the string. Do I have 4 strings at 2x the length + the width? Or do I have 2 strings at 2x the length + 2 strings at 46" which is the width? please, somebody help me.

I didn't have the exact brand the show here, but the basics were enough to be able to do it myself. Their STRING GUIDE was WAY OFF. Based on their instructions, I was to need 86 feet but only used half of that. I measured 4 times before I ordered and could have purchased the smallest roll of string, instead ended up with a 300ft roll. Way more than I needed. No worries though, it was way less expensive than replacing the entire blind and having it not match the other 20 year old blinds. Thanks Fix My Blind.

Thank you! So the bottom ups are secured with a knot into a washer and the top down are secured with the triangular two piece things?

are next day blinds made by hunter douglas? My NDB are 70 wide and about 55 long, the 2x length plus the width was waaay too long... it also had top down , bottom up ...GREAT VIDEO!

Like a boss!

As I watched you take the top "rail" off I wanted to know if I reverse that can I then have the back of the shade become the front? I like the back color (white) better with the new paint. My question is can the shade be reversed? Thanks

Very informative! It looks once you removed the top bracket caps, you would slide the bracket out easily. But my hunterDouglas cordless (94" by 59") topdown/bottomup model top bracket won't slide out. I am afraid to break the shades if I try pull too hard. Do you have any idea what is wrong? Thank you!

I have a 70" Wide by 55" long shade. My problem is that I can't get the shade compressed to do the repair. It is extended and the string is broken so I can't pull it to compress the shade. Any tips on how to handle this situation? Can I somehow feed the string through, or how can I compress the shade?

@ptownkz: Very useful, thx!

This was not quite right for my model. For my model, when pushing the needle hole device through the body of the screen, you had to remove the bottom caps and slide off the metal bottom, and you actualy had to string from the bottom and then up through to the 'middle' rail towards the top. This is because the holes on my bottom rail are not big enough to allow the needle hole device to penetrate through.

i tried twice to restring my top down bottom up blinds looking and following this video, but both time, my blinds do not stay closed, what am I doing wrong? HELP PLEASE!! I have old style .

If you own a cat as a pet make sure to put them in another room before you start your re-string project.

top part of top rail will not budge? Any ideas?

So you need to cut 4 strings to do this. Right?

Is it possible to convert a 'Bottom Up' shade into a 'Top Down' shade?

Thank you however, DO NOT USE LESS STRING THAN RECOMMENDED! I just fought with a six string 7 foot long blind for three hours only to find that I didn't have enough string. It all depends on the width to height ratio of the shade. Trust me on that. I figured I could save some string for next time. Idiot. Now I have to start over and order more string. Also, my threading tool did not easily pass through the plastic pieces and it was a mess

why does your list not include the string? And it would be nice if you mention what size string is normally used.

Hunter Douglas has the LiteRise Honeycomb blinds with a Transmission and two Motors. To replace, cost is about $52. That's expensive to replace all three items just because the string broke. Why so? That's not fair for consumers. Why can't the Transmission be repaired?

UI’m you can come tomorrow and use out III yet I

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String cutting instructions are terrible. Please redo this video or add an amendment to the description. Also 2xL + W was 60 inches too long for my total of 174. Otherwise, helpful, thanks!

slowest way to do this possible