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Firstly, high winds are due over the next couple of days. I have been in the garden staking plants and strengthening the tomato stakes.

I have never heard of these until DDiL mentioned them. Although our front room is North facing, it has a West facing side window. In the afternoon, it shines in our faces and we wanted a better blind than the roller one which sits on the conservatory side of the window. When that is down, it affects airflow from our tilt and turn window, this doesn't as it sits inside the frame, next to the glass.

It comes as a partially made kit, just the sides need fitting and screwing tight. This particular window, being 32 years old, has quite a deep recess and the largest bracket supplied by the company (which sits happily between the rubber and glass) was too small. Not their fault, we didn't tell them as I had already found a company online which sells 38mm brackets.

These arrived within a few days and the blind is now up. Here it is getting assembled:

And once the brackets arrived, up and fitted in about 10 minutes: The colour we chose was mushroom. It fits our room well and keeps out the sun very well, being double thickness and coated inside with aluminium, making it a blackout blind. It is pleated, each pleat a sort of complete honeycomb shape, designed to also keep out cold air and heat, which may travel through the glass.

This is the company we used here. We got the larger brackets from here.

DS and DDiL have used the first company for venetial blinds and a different company for cassette blackout blinds for DGD bedroom here.