Just got a quote for 5 bedroom blinds - £9k, £11k if I want em all electric. I can buy a pinball for that ffs
Mind you one window is a bit of a challenge to blackout:
Mind you one window is a bit of a challenge to blackout:
Pinball info
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F***mE! the price of stuff today
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Are they coming up with a solution for that Alan? I've got an arched window in my kitchen with no blinds at because I couldn't come up with a decent solution that was neat/invisible when the blind was up.
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How about that glass that smokes up when you put a current through it???
Google link, no idea if it's any good
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I looked at it - it's very expensive and it doesn't blackout - so still lets a lot of light in - ok for living rooms and kitchens but not a bedroom - thanks for the suggestion anyway!
are they made from bitcoins or something?
Bloody hell. Even my wife would struggle to pay 11 grand for blinds. That’s an horrendous figure to justify.
Happens when you get big ass windows the size of the gable end installed...
Got a quote for our gable end and it was £30k! Even Dawn (who loves blinds, curtains and cushions) decided that was too much!!
Gable end? That’s some Manor House level **** right there 
In London if we have a window box it’s considered to be some type of roof garden.
Guessing you’re not selling games due to space reasons.
In London if we have a window box it’s considered to be some type of roof garden.
Guessing you’re not selling games due to space reasons.
Think they are meant to be in a place where you have nobody overlooking you so no need for them
Blinded by the price
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nobody overlooking apart from a field full of cows. but i like in blackout dark, especially at this time of year.Think they are meant to be in a place where you have nobody overlooking you so no need for them
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Just checking, that is the cost for blinds for the windows of 5 bedrooms, including that complicated gable end window array?
How many windows openings including that one?
I have a complicated bay which I am scratching my head how to manage with blackouts blinds but maybe not that complicated.
How many windows openings including that one?
I have a complicated bay which I am scratching my head how to manage with blackouts blinds but maybe not that complicated.
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4 ordinary windows plus the large trapezium shaped one all on the one bedroom
Probably Thomas Sanderson, they’re ridiculous price wise
A few years I was at someone’s posh house that the glass went kinda dark grey at the flick of a switch and I don’t think they were 10k but maybe wrong.
Nowadays Alexa would be the switch for that type of crazy glass.
Nowadays Alexa would be the switch for that type of crazy glass.
Like the Dreamliner windows, no blinds, just dim the glass
Like this, not total blackout though as can’t be done yet. For a big window with a view it’s a good option but I wonder what that would cost.
Switchable Black Out Effect Glass | Intelligent Glass
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I've got a few more blind suppliers coming in to sizeup and quote in the next week.
Good luck, someone will do a decent price for you
I haven’t used these but might be worth a go?
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Hillary's blinds bailed out - if it isn't a rectangle they cannot do it.
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I’m on the look out for one of those tennis umpires chair so I can sit there in the garden winding my neighbour up
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Well next blind supplier comes in at silly price too. £10.8k fully electric or 9.2k for big window electric, other 4 manual
I’m mean ffs it a motor, some plastic bits, a few strings and a bit of material.
I’m mean ffs it a motor, some plastic bits, a few strings and a bit of material.
I moan about the price of kitchens for what you get, blinds are on another level!!!!
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It's like the double glazing salesmen have all moved inside into blinds
^ also solar!