00:00Okay so there are these Venetian blinds and we don't know for sure how old they
00:04are but very high likelihood that they have been here since this building was
00:08first built which is now over 30 years old and it's showing with the amount of
00:13rust that is occurring in the blinds. We've tried cleaning them for a while but it's
00:16gone to the point where probably easiest just to replace them. So these are 25
00:21millimeter thick aluminium Venetian blinds. So I went to a site called
00:27Blinds Online and they have quite a big variety of Venetian blinds there. The ones we've got
00:31were from Tuiss, T-U-I-S-S is the name of the company and they're very good you just
00:36give your, you do your own measurements, you give the width, you give the drop you
00:41want, you send in an order and they can quite quickly like I can't remember
00:46exactly how long but it's perhaps about a week and a half, ten days. So I need to
00:51take off the old blind first. Now blinds are either attached up at the top or at
00:56the sides. Ours are attached up at the top. So there are two clips on each side so
01:01just using this pair of pliers because they probably haven't been moved for a long time.
01:05Just move that out. Move this out here.
01:18There we go. And then it should be just a twisting motion, twist it at the back.
01:30And there we go. Here's the old blinds that are off. Now the new blind came with its own rotating
01:36rod but I actually prefer the shorter
01:38lot of the old ones. So I'll actually take this off and set it aside and use it
01:43again. Now the new blind obviously you'll need, no sorry the old blind I mean,
01:47obviously you need to dispose of therapy for the cords especially children around. Now
01:54here's the new blind which I've previously measured.
02:16So these are the attachments to the ceiling but we already have those so we don't need those.
02:28the box down. So voila, here's the blind, just need to make sure the cord's in the right,
02:47right area. And the um, the rod actually goes on the opposite side this time but that's fine.
02:58So I'll actually just hook that on now.
03:03Put the old rod
03:08there, there we go. Now the key is, is that
03:16with the two attachments at the top you need to hook the front part in first.
03:22So you put it in like this, rotate it so it hooks on and then push that up against the
03:27back
03:28and then you flick the hooks to connect at the back and then that should hold snug in place.
03:39Now position it in an area where you're happy with the width, so about here.
03:46So it's going to take a little bit of fussing around, so hook it up that front.
03:55Hopefully that's it, I'll see shortly.
03:59So click that into place.
04:02Click that into place, gently let go see if it's holding.
04:07Yep, that seems to be it. So I'll give it a dental test.
04:21There you go, voila, new blinds.
04:27Open,
04:30close them,
04:35pull them up again.
04:42And then before we do anything further,
04:45most important thing with children in the house, or even if you don't have children in the house,
04:49just in case children are visiting, is to put a safety loop, which I'll take off the old one here,
04:57a safe loop at the end, so it's nice and high outreach at children.
05:00So there you go, easy to install, blinds.
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