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HOW TO SHORTEN BLINDS

Welcome back, guys. We want to do the same thing up above. So now I'll tell you how this is set up on the bottom with our bottom rung. We want to remove this run. So that we can reuse it up higher. So the first thing we want to do is go ahead and cut through and if you look here closely you can see that there are three different sizes of cords or three different styles of cords here and what I'll tell you again when we get up higher we've got a little bit better light. We've got essentially we've got two different cords or two separate cords on the front and back here of the cordless blind and we've got a piece of cord here that runs horizontal and we've got a thick cord here in the center that runs down through the center of the blind and the center of this rung here on the bottom and. So we're going to take our scissors we're going to cut through all of these at all three locations you can watch as I do that okay. So we are going to be saving this [Music] take that we're gonna pull these cords through this is trash now if you have an issue with being able to get your cord through here to get it out of there you can always use tweezers it's one of the ways that you can use tweezers for this project we've got two out of the three done and then pull that one out. So now we've got this free and clear we're gonna set that to the side and let's go back up top okay. So now that we're back up top I could tell you that we've got those horizontal pieces right there we've got our thick cord in the center and we've got our thinner cords on the front and back here and. 

So what we're gonna do is remove the thick cord from the center of the blind since that is the only one that passes through each one of these fins and then we'll be ready to start with the back of our thicker fin. So now what we're gonna do is look down here this is our last wrong that we're going to have here we look here there is our thick cord we're simply gonna take that one and pull it through gently we're gonna do the same thing for each one making sure that we're pulling the right one making sure that we've got the one that we've got a tape on the slide on across here and the last one as well okay. So now that we've done that and we've got our slat remaining here we can simply pull out the ones below it. So this is going to give us those two horizontal pieces that I mentioned before. So you can take these sets off to the side. So now we've got the piece that we originally took off from the bottom we're gonna take that and we're gonna slide that one right on in here and the slat underneath and we want to make sure that we slide it in here with the small holes up remember we've got the big holes on the bottom like small holes up I'm going to slide this in now this is the part that's gonna be most difficult which is going to be trying to make sure that you're able to get this thread here through this hole there's more than one way that you can do this you may luck out and have a type of mini-blind that makes it very easy to go through there however one of the things about working with these cords is that they tend to fray just like this immediately after you cut them and. That’s all about today, see you in the next article.

by razsmiths on 2021-12-31 09:24:31