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RE: More curtain woes...


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  • Subject: RE: More curtain woes...
  • From: "Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:19:30 +0100
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Paul

ever thought of moving? ;)

cheers
Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul_gordon@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 August 2001 15:54
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] More curtain woes...
>
>
> The more I dig into this curtain lark, the more depressed I become!
>
> A question for anybody with any knowledge of the Silent Gliss
> track range: -
> can the NON-electric track have a pull-cord on one side only,
> when the span
> is approximately 5 metres?
>
> I have found a local supplier earlier today who CAN do:
>
> - High quality metal (aluminium) track
> - which can be up to 16ft long in a single piece
> - which can be reverse bent round a bay window
>
> But.... which CANNOT have just one pull-cord for the whole lot -
> it has to
> have a pull cord at each end, one per curtain.
>
> This is obviously an automation nightmare, as I then have the
> dual problems
> of a) having to buy two motors instead of one, and b) trying to get
them
> both synchronised so that curtains open/close together.
>
> Does anybody here know of ANY manual cord-pull curtain track that
> will fit
> round a standard UK bay window, including reverse bending round the
oter
> corner of the bay, and which allows operation by a single cord?
>
> Oh, and which preferably does not cost so much that I have to fake my
own
> death and claim the insurance money...
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
>
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