Cord Blind Safety - Ultimate Guide
How do you ensure your curtains and blinds are safe for your children ?
Follow this very simple guide regarding your curtains and blinds to ensure that your home is safe for your children. Cord blind safety is a necessity in your home to ensure your children are safe from any potential hazards
1. Cord Safety of Roller Blinds
Generally most roller blinds these days are supplied and installed by qualified installers , this ensures that your cords are secured correctly on the window using a tensioner. The tensioner makes it very difficult for children to be able to create a loop or any type of slackness in the cord that may be hazardous to them. When you are setting up the room always consider the positioning of beds or cots to any of the windows that may have cords on the roller blinds or any other type of blind.
Always position your bed or cot on the other side of the room away from the window , this will take any temptation away from your child.
2. Cordless Blinds and Child Safety
Many blinds and curtains can now be provided with no cords or chains , if you are purchasing new sheer curtains then the tracks can be supplied as hand traverse , so basically this means there is absolutely no requirement for a cord on your curtain track , you will be provided with a flick stick that hangs off the curtain track and allows you to move your new sheer curtains with a minimum of ease. Roller blinds and other types of blinds are now being manufactured as cordless blinds , so basically you can lower or lift the blind that will have a spring , so again no cords are required.
3. Child Safe blinds and Curtains
If you have existing blinds and curtains in your home, you should inspect each of these windows to ensure that they are safe for your children . One of the easiest ways to ensure that your home has child safe blinds and curtains is to make sure that the blind cord and curtain cord are firmly attached to the wall or architrave. If you have moved into a new home with existing window blinds then it extremely important that all windows comply with cord blind safety. If the blind chains or curtain cords are not attached to the wall , you can purchase the special clips that are required from any local curtain and blind supplier.
4. What is a blind cord safety device or blind safety clip
This special device allows you to attach your roller blind cord or chain to the wall or architrave , it basically looks likes a miniature hockey stick shape , they are generally made from a type of plastic or metal. This blind cord safety device is screwed to the wall or architrave if the blind or curtain is face fix , if you have the blind or curtain installed into the recess of the window frame then you basically screw that safety device into the side of the frame.
5. Are your Roller blinds and curtains child safe
The Australian Standard for roller blind chains and cord and curtain cords are as follows , you can install a blind safety device at any height as long as it prevents a loop forming of around 200mm , so a suitable height should be chosen to operate the blind or curtains , generally you should keep this where practical 1600mm from the floor. For full and concise instructions please view the following Product Safety Australian Site -
