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I've got a Swift Sundance 590RL van less than 2 yrs old where the blinds & fly screens roll down. At night from the outside, you can still look into the van from the bottom of the windows and light comes in during the day when they are down.
What is involved to change these roll blinds to the newer pleated pull up blinds and pull down fly screens?
Replies welcome especially from SWIFT GROUP please - Thanks!
I've got a Swift Sundance 590RL van less than 2 yrs old where the blinds & fly screens roll down. At night from the outside, you can still look into the van from the bottom of the windows and light comes in during the day when they are down.
What is involved to change these roll blinds to the newer pleated pull up blinds and pull down fly screens?
Kind regards
Gereshom
Hi Gereshom,
It might be that the blinds need adjusting.
I have recieved your email too and will look into this for you.
This is something that I also found on my 2 year old Bessacar E410. The only way to get a more effective light seal is to pull the Bug Screens down as well as the light blind. The actual light blind does not pull down far enough and is also not as close to the wall as it could perhaps be.
Keep in mind that the bed arrangement is such that peoples heads are right underneath the blind and the early morning sun can shine straight on your face. Just a little too early in some cases
This is something that I also found on my 2 year old Bessacar E410. The only way to get a more effective light seal is to pull the Bug Screens down as well as the light blind. The actual light blind does not pull down far enough and is also not as close to the wall as it could perhaps be.
Keep in mind that the bed arrangement is such that peoples heads are right underneath the blind and the early morning sun can shine straight on your face. Just a little too early in some cases
Hello Gereshom! I hope I have interpreted your concern correctly.
I have to go back to caravan days to remember when BOTH black-out and fly screen came down from the TOP. This arrangement was then replaced by the fully-enclosed cassette...
As far as I can recall, on all the screen cassettes we've used, the black-out screen has come UP from the bottom, whilst the fly screen has come down from the top.
On our previous AutoSleeper Pollensa, we had just about TOTAL black-out!
Our present Coral also has this arrangement, which is very private. If the black-out is in use, NO-ONE can still look into the van from the bottom of the windows
Do you have one-piece, four-sided cassettes? If so, I'm left wondering if your cassettes are on UPSIDE DOWN. I'm sure they're reversible.
If not, I'm wondering why such a new MH has such an old-fashioned blind set-up.
If I've got it all wrong, I apologise hugely!
I look forward to the answer from Swift. Please keep us posted.
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Keep in mind that the bed arrangement is such that peoples heads are right underneath the blind and the early morning sun can shine straight on your face. Just a little too early in some cases
Colin...we've had this problem on all our vans except, oddly, the current Bessacarr.
We've got round it in the past by cutting a length of foam pipe lagging into 4 strips lengthways. These fit neatly between the wall at the bottom of the window and the bottom of the blind and they stay in place as the foam gives them quite high friction. During the day they fitted behind the upholstery cushions.
As well as cutting light they also stopped the down draughts of cold air from the window.
I think the pleated blinds would last longer and are more practical. I could be wrong?!
Regards
Gereshom
We have them on the main rooflight, one day the rooflight was open a bit and when the door was opened it blew the blind out of it's tracks. What a job that was to put back !
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