Today, Dean is going to show us how to make this blind out of all this material.
Aren't you Dean. Apparently.
So what you need is some meranti timber for the top batten, some other smaller timber for the ribs.
Which is Tasmanian Oak. We will need the material which is actually rubber backed blind material.
You can use colorco but that's probably the best way to go.
These fixings which we will talk about later.
The drill. We will need our trusty mitre saw, some craft glue, hammer, stanley knife, tape measure, straight edge and of course the blind cord.
Are you ready?
Bottom is already squared off so let's measure and cut.
We measure and cut the blind to our overall length of 1500 mm.
Mark both sides and cut to length.
The length of the blind will vary depending on your window opening.
That's great I'll get that out of your way.
I'll just see what we have to do next.
Right, we gotta cut the meranti so you've got the meranti.
Need that mitre saw . Yes.
Having securely clamped our mitre saw to the bench we measure and cut the top and bottom battens to length.
So, 1155, yep.
We then mark the outer points of the blind so we can glue and fold the side vents.
The craft glue dries quite quickly, about 10 minutes so you haven't got time to muck around.
So we are folding to that line.
Don't use too much glue as it will stiffen the blind and reduce it's ability to fold easily.
We then glue and fold the bottom batten securing the top edge with an extra bead of glue.
We then measure and check it and fold the top batten to give an overall length of 1300 mm.
Now the glue dries fairly rapidly we have discovered so if you do spill any make sure you get it off very quickly.
Did you spill any?
No. Good.
We then check, measure and mark the position of the ribs.
The good thing about this system is there is actually no sewing and that is pretty good because that is not something we are very good at.
So now we have got to turn it the other way and we are going to stick the back ribs on which form part of the blind mechanism.
Right so we will straighten that out.
Nice and neat.
Using craft glue we glue the ribs into position.
Just firm that into place and just make sure it's straight under it.
Now while they are drying we can fix the pulleys to the top.
We put the edge of our pulleys about 250 mm in from either end.
These are the main pulleys.
While that's drying we pre drill the pulley holes through the material to about 3 mm in depth in the top batten.
We then place the rib sections below the blind and secure through pre-drilled nail holes.
We then screw in the eyes.
So now we just continue on down the battens.
When we get to the bottom batten it's important that the hooks face upwards, not sideways like these.
Ok, let's turn it around and thread some ropes.
Righty o, good.
We need it out straight so the ropes run full length.
Now if we just take the rope through each eye.
Thread the cords and our simple no sew roman blind is ready to go.
That's come up well. Ahh that's very very good.
How about you clean up and I'll install it.
Go ahead. Great. Ok. Good. It wont take long.
So what do you think? Well I think it looks fantastic.
You sure you put it in the right spot?
What do you mean?
Well...
Next time we might show you how to put a window, right here. Maybe.