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As a handyman, it is more of a rarity if I go into a house and the blinds don’t need work. Window blinds get damaged…that’s what they do. If you have a vertical blind, there are ways to repair these instead of replacing them.
One of the most common things I see is a missing vein for a vertical blind. These are long and hang from the head rail. All of the weight is placed on a small hole at the top of the blind. This hole is hung in a rotating clip in the head rail and allows the blind’s vein to be rotated open to allow light in or closed to keep it dark inside. These veins break due to the weight and the abuse they take. The top of the vein will rip out rendering the vein useless…unless you know what to do. You can reinforcement clips that will make the veins useful again. They simply clip on to the top of the blind’s vein and you can re-hang it back onto the head rail. This of course assumes that the broken veins are still somewhere in the house.
If the broken veins are missing, you can buy new ones. You can buy all new veins or you can buy just those that you are missing. Home centers sell them in packages of 3-5 and they simply unroll and slide into the clips.
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