Perfect Fit Venetian Conservatory Blinds

The perfect fit venetian blinds in these pictures were fitted in Hemel Hempstead a few days ago. The pictures show how neat they can be and how they become part of the conservatory. The colour was a honey type cream and the slat width is 25mm.

The fit took about an hour for the 20+ blinds. The beauty of these blinds is that they were just clipped in with no need to drill any holes. You can see a perfect fit bracket in one of the photos.

Having perfect fit venetians in a conservatory give you a huge amount of control over light and privacy. This particular house has a public right of way adjacent to the conservatory. It was important to get some shade and at the same time stop people being able to look in. When you need to clean perfect fit blinds you can unclip them. This also allows you to clean the conservatory without damaging the blinds.

The controls are the standard cord pull and wand tilt rod. This is far better than some of the slider tilt mechanisms that are becoming available at the moment. The standard way of operating these blinds has stood the test of time. The new sliders are unreliable and prone to breaking. They are often out of reach when you want to tilt the blind.

Perfect Fit Cellular Blinds

Perfect fit cellular blinds have a number of advantages over the standard perfect fit pleated blinds system. The cellular fabric has "cells" formed between 2 fabrics. These cells have a number of benefits when they are put in perfect fit frames.

• The cells insulate because they have an air pocket between the fabrics.
• The cells also keep the full heat of the sun from entering the room or conservatory.
• No cords or pulls are visible because they are all hidden in between the cells.
• The Blackout cellular fabric ranges allow better blackout because there are no holes in the blind.
• The translucent fabrics give a soft look and feel to your windows.

The Blinds are operated with a small handle on the moving bar. They can stop at any position within the frame. When you stop moving the handle the blind will stay put due to the friction of the cord circuit.

The perfect fit cellular blinds come in 3 styles. Standard - the blind opens to the top and closes by pulling the handle down. Cafe - The blinds opens to the bottom and closes by pulling the handle up. Two Way draw - The blind has 2 handles and can stack to either the top or the bottom.

Perfect fit blinds are taking over the market

We have now been selling and fitting perfect fit blinds since their launch 2 1/2 years ago. In that time they have moved from being a small niche type of product to what it is today. Perfect fit blinds are now in the mainstream of blinds in the UK

We now have customers who know all about perfect fit blinds and simply want to see the choices available. We also hae people looking for cheap perfect fit blinds. But that is never really going to happen because they are very labour intensive to make.

We do now however have the full range of styles and colours and I thought it would be helpful to list out all the options you can have. You would be amazed how many people read this blog (I am) and how many people ring us up on a daily basis looking for information about perfect fit blinds.

The different types of perfect fit blinds

• Perfect fit pleated blinds


• Perfect fit cellular pleated blinds


• Perfect fit 16mm venetian blinds


• Perfect fit 25mm venetian blinds


• Perfect fit 25mm wood venetian blinds


• Perfect fit roller blinds

Along with all these blind type you can now have them in 4 frame colours

• White


• Brown


• Silver grey


• Oak

So you can see there are many options for people to consider. The only version that is still not fully developed is the roller blind option. The tensioning of the spring has to be set very precisely. This means that we cannot offer it for customers to fit themselves. Its a pity because there are so many fabric choices. Give it another year and the issues will have been ironed out.

The other thing we have been getting calls about is the possibility of a copy cat product. We have heard some bad stories about poor quality blinds that do not fit. These have been supplied at dicount prices but do not have the same features and are of substandard quality. You must specify Louvolite perfect fit. We are currently making blinds for a customer in scotland who been duped by a con merchant blind company trying to pass off a different type of blind as the real perfect fit.

Does the frame come with the blind

I was asked today if the frame comes with the blind.

The blinds come in a frame and is fitted as a complete unit. You can see a perfect fit blind being fitted at our main blinds website.

This is true for all the pleated, venetian and roller blind versions of the product.

I am also always asked about the no drilling thing. These blinds really are simple clip in units. There is no drilling - it is a fantastic innovation. When you want to clean the window or the blind you simply unclip it and you have full access to both.

As I wrote the other day, there are now some alternative products arriving to the market but this is the real deal. To quote Ronson " It does what it says on the tin "

Perfect fit frames - beware of cheap imitations

I had a customer come into our showroom today to order their perfect fit blinds. Some blackout nova snow blinds for a hot conservatory.

They had driven halfway round the M25 to look at our products and ensure they were suitable for their windows. We had already "talked" by email and on the phone a few times as the windows they had were slightly different from the normal types.

The reason for the long journey is that the customer had received frame samples from another company saying they did perfect fit blinds but the frame was different and wasn't compatible with the specification of the patented perfect fit blind system.

Now I have known for a while there was an alternative out there as other customers had told me but what it is like I have no idea. I haven't been able to see it as yet. You need to make sure you are ordering the patented perfect fit blind system that we use.

We have produced a range of videos and information pages including this blog to help customers select and choose the correct blinds. If you take the specification details that we have in our information pages and order a substandard system from elsewhere the blinds will not work. You will of course have paid a bit less but at what cost in terms of mis-measured ill-fitting blinds.

I have studiously not made this blog a big sales pitch for my companies http://www.perfect-fit-blinds.com/ and http://www.howardsblinds.co.uk/ up to now because a new product needs a lot of backup information in the first few years. But I want you to know that not all perfect fit blinds are perfect fit blinds. Another national blind company has taken the phrase "perfect fit blinds" to describe their complete range of window blinds thus further confusing the market.

So to summarise.

• We were there at the beginning of the product launch November 2005.
• We have personally fitted more perfect fit blinds in the UK than anyone else.
• We are one of very few 5 star accredited louvolite manufacturers
• We only sell the fully guaranteed original perfect fit blind system
• We receive leads internationally for these blinds and the perfect fit roof blind system.
• We have a real phone number 01344 452485 and showroom. Call us.

I hope you will permit this slightly biased entry just to clear up the point that not all perfect fit blinds are the authentic and patented system.

I will return to just product info and updates from tomorrow.

perfect fit roof blinds with window opening

I often get asked how to overcome the problem of fitting blinds to a conservtory roof where there is an opening section.

We fitted a conservatory roof last week that had a motorised opener and we sorted this out by fitting one blind just below the motor and another just above. The end look was very tidy.

There is a photo on this page - click link below

perfect fit roof blinds

We can do the same thing if your window openers are manual control with a crank.

Having spent a year fitting perfect fit roof blinds now we have only come accross one where they were not suitable. We simply installed our standard conservatory roof blinds in this case.

We offer a fitting service to most of the south east of the country but cannot go futher at present. We can hardly keep up with the demand in our area.

New video showing perfect fit roof blinds

We have just put a new video on you tube showing how to fit a perfect fit roof blind.
The video also shows how to take one down. This is very useful when you want to clean the conservatory roof or indeed the blind itself.

The one in the video is quite small. You would normally need 2 people to take down this type of perfect fit blind.

At the end of the video there is a short clip showing an unusual shaped roof blind with an obtuse angle. We rarely come across these but it shows how we overcome the problem of not having a right angle to work with.

We are very busy with these perfect fit roof blinds because summer has finally arrived. Hardly anyone is ordering the standard roof blinds as the benefits of perfect fit are so good.