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Personcwdc56768
11/8/2012 at 8:59am
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Do you think that this irritation is more down to whether you are a morning person or not?

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PersonJax365
11/8/2012 at 9:40am
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I don't have blinds on my windows, but I do have exceptionally thick upholstery material for curtains. What I was thinking would solve this problem is to buy some blackout material and sew it onto the outside (window side) of your curtains, rather like an extra lining. This would stop all the light coming through without having to resort to pieces of foam etc, then you would just close the cutrains over the blinds and that would stop the light at the bottom edge.

A cheaper way would be to velcro a strip of blackout curtain at the bottom of the blinds, so that bit is blacked out properly.

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PersonGuys
11/8/2012 at 9:18pm
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We had this problem in the Bailey Ranger we had, but we found a solution that really worked. We cut a stiff piece of cardboard about 12 inches high to the exact width of the window, with cut outs at the bottom so the bottom edge of the cardboard was exactly flush with the bottom edge of the window. This was put in place then the fly screen was lowered to hold this into place, then the main blind was pulled down. Result, in the morning, as the sun came up, no light at all was cast onto the pillow.


PersonPennine Plodder
12/8/2012 at 6:57pm
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I'm not fond of the pull-down type of blind, the concertina pull-ups are more efficient. Why don't the caravan makers all switch to these? Got to be cheaper and more easily fixable.

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PersonChalkie56
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Pennine Plodder it would not be a good idea to switch to pull up blinds. Simply because its job generally is to blind out the sun especially when it is low in the sky. The traditional blind is better at this - why fix something that aint broke. In fact the roof blinds on my van are left open and I like the sun/light to penetrate my van in the morning it is natures alarm clock. It is such a waste to miss the morning it makes your break go too quickly. Last year I was in the lake district and some of the mornings were so beautiful with mist over the lake and a half hour walk with the greyhound saw the mist burn away with the sun and just a few people to see it. Priceless - also no one in the showers, a cafetiere and a bowl of muesli and fruit. Then wake the wife for a cup of tea with cries of "what time do you call this" - ahh bliss.

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Personbenblunt
14/8/2012 at 7:23pm
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Agree - a real pain and on our latest van a Coachman seems an even bigger gap.  We used to have pull up blinds, which we will aim for next time round.

In meantime we use foam pipe lagging which does the trick and you can cut to size for all blinds as required.

Ben.



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