Installing A Roller Shade

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Home decorating and sewing centers sell kits with everything you need but the fabric to make a custom window shade. Select a lightweight fabric such as cotton, cotton blend or linen that can take a hot iron setting which you will need for bonding the fabric to the shade. Follow manufacturer’s directions to laminate your fabric to the non-woven base. Some shade-resurfacing kits use spray adhesive to bond the fabric to the base.

Installing a roller shade is an easy job that you can do yourself, but it goes more quickly and accurately with two people to position and install the brackets.

1. Slip the brackets onto the raised shade. Hold all the pieces temporarily where you want them mounted – inside or outside the window. While one person holds the shade in place a second person uses a level to position it straight and marks the location of the screw or nail holes in the brackets on the window jamb or frame.
2. Take down the shade. Remove the brackets. Hold each bracket over its marked holes on the window jamb or frame and install it with the nails provided. If the installation surface is metal then use screws instead. If it is drywall, use screws with screw anchors even if they were not provided with the shade.
3. Insert the roller shade into the installed brackets and test for proper tension. Pull it up and down a few times to make sure it works properly. Adjust the tension as needed.

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