Since I was mounting the blinds inside the window frame and the people at the store couldn't tell me how much to subtract from the length for the blinds I opted to buy one package of slats and cut the slats at home using the extra length to make the additional slats I would need.Īt home I removed the L brackets from the clips that attach the L bracket to the head rail. The slat sizes offered at the home improvement store were too long for my windows. I had the store cut two head rails for the windows. I went to the home improvement store and found some head rails. Using the power saw made quick work but it also melted the slats together but were easily pulled apart with no damage and a sharp utility knife cut off any melted PVC attached to the end.Īfter we purchased our house I wanted vertical blinds in my office and bathroom, our house came with trashed mini blinds and a few nasty drapes. Our contractor also used a power miter saw with a fine tooth blade to cut some of the blind slats, he would tape a bundle of slats together in a stack and put tape around the stack where he was going to cut to prevent tear out. After the store cut the blind slats down he would take the extra length and bring it back to the apartments and use a hole punch to make the hole that is used to attach the blind slat to the head rail.

The blinds come in various lengths so he would buy blind slats that were for sliding glass doors and use those for windows, the blind slats were 2 times or more longer than needed. Our contractor would have the store cut all the head rails and some of the blinds to length. Home improvement stores will cut the head rails and PVC blinds to custom lengths. When I managed apartments we changed out the drapes to vertical blinds as we cleaned up the units. I apologize for the poor quality of the pictures.

Vertical blind hole punch home depot