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PersonBERTIE
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Just started caravaning and wondered what is the right thing to do:

Travel with the blinds open or closed?

I keep convincing myself of reasons for and against both, so just wondered if there is a protocol to follow.


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its blinds open for me


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blinds open for us too.

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Personhes1973
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Blinds open for us too, use the rear window for visibility!


Personjeff juke
17/3/2013 at 9:29pm
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Yep open..

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Animals have feelings..

JEFF................


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Personjeff juke
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Bertie whats your reasons for open or closed ?

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PersonBERTIE
17/3/2013 at 9:39pm
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Open:

For - If you have an accident(hopefully never) emergency services can see inside easily.
Against - If you stop at service stations all the contents are on full view.

Closed:

For: - less hassle when taking out of storage (opening them), protection from sunlight, less movement on the blind rollers/tracks making them last longer.

Against: - No visibility for emergency services.


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Open for us.
The stuff that's on show in van when travelling isn't that appealing to most- large plastic tubs filled with shoes, and the last minute remembered coats just lobbed over the carefully packed boxes on the floor....


Personjeff juke
17/3/2013 at 9:54pm
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Quote: Originally posted by BERTIE on 17/3/2013
Open:

For - If you have an accident(hopefully never) emergency services can see inside easily.
Against - If you stop at service stations all the contents are on full view.

Closed:

For: - less hassle when taking out of storage (opening them), protection from sunlight, less movement on the blind rollers/tracks making them last longer.

Against: - No visibility for emergency services.


Good points Bertie having never stopped i can see your point but,if i did,i would leave the wife watching the van..



Just asked one of my lads who is a fire fighter about caravans in accidents and he says dont matter if curtains open or closed they know what to expect..

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Open for vision and if they were closed a jolt or bump may cause them to release suddenly potentially causing them damage.

I see no advantage in having them closed.


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Open most of the time
but closed when the dogs are travelling in the caravan


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17/3/2013 at 10:17pm
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You travel with the blinds open because if you don't, and you bump along, that may just cause them to unroll open at a rate that may damage the springs. That just means an expense to get them corrected. Think about it, when you open the blinds in a morning do you release them and just let them go or take care opening them?

Phil



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Quote: Originally posted by Big Al on 17/3/2013
Open most of the time
but closed when the dogs are travelling in the caravan



Surely you don't really mean that your dogs travel in the caravan ! Is that not illegal ?
I'd never never put my dogs in the van while traveling !


Personblack ice
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Blinds open for us too

Sue.


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Blinds open for us too

use the curtains at home, protection from sunlight.


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"Open most of the time
but closed when the dogs are travelling in the caravan"


Yes I was wondering about that, surely you dont travel with the dogs in the caravan????????????????

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