The good news is that the blind is now installed and it works.
Purchase and collection straightforward. Kiln Lane a convenient collection point, with the bonus that we discovered that our preferred tipple is significantly cheaper at Sainsbury's than it is at Majestic Wine. But there is bad news.
The instructions, one side of which is illustrated above, do not quite match the article; a pain when you are struggling to puzzle out how to put together the tricky little fittings that tend to come with articles of this sort. Much more attention appeared to have been paid to the need to stop small children strangling themselves with the plastic roller chain than to getting the purchaser onside.
The blind was mounted on a cardboard tube which was difficult to cut neatly with the suggested hacksaw. I had got on much better with the lightweight metal tube of its predecessor from Ikea. We shall see how the cardboard stands up to the damp of a winter kitchen.
The blind was not stuck quite straight on the tube, which meant that it did not roll up quite straight, although it did at least roll, as I had allowed a couple of millimeters tolerance when cutting the blind to width of window. I thought about peeling the blind off the tube and then sticking it back down again, but I was unsure whether it would stick a second time and was fairly sure that, in the absence of any guide lines printed on the tube, any effort of mine would not be an improvement.
Overall impression, about the same price in cash terms, but a more flimsy affair than that from Ikea. We shall see how long it lasts.
Duration: 9 minutes online purchase, 47 minutes collection, 94 minutes installation. Spread over about 20 hours.
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