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Removing valances and shades

Yahoo Message Number: 19497
Lyle: Unless there have be some significant changes over the past few years, removing the valances and blinds are easy.
I removed and replaced all of mine and replaced the fabric with oak to match the interior.
Underneath each corner there is a little corner bracket behind each valance with two screws holding it to the wall. They are easily removed with a long blade Phillips head screwdriver. Power drills work great.
Also, along the bottom of the sill there are two or three screws holding the tension. You can remove and replace them and restore the tension when you put them back together.

By removing the total assembly the full window trim is accessible.

Good luck

Larry
Intrigue
10762

Re: Removing valances and shades

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Yahoo Message Number: 19498
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Larry,

Thanks for the input. I have two kinds of valances. The LR has only side verical valances which are attached as you suggest. However, the BR has a horizontal valance underneath the cabinets over the bed. It attaches to the two side valances and also somewhere horizontally. I can't find any corner brackets and can't figure out whether or not they have screws going up into the cabinets. If so these screws would be under the top rail of the blinds. Therefore the blinds would have to come down first but CC tells me the blinds and the valances come down as a unit.

Afterwords, the trick is to re-mount the blinds up under that horizontal valance where you can't reach. Any further ideas? Lyle Wetherholt,
04 Intrigue 11740

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Lyle: Unless there have be some significant changes over the past
few years, removing the valances and blinds are easy.

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I removed and replaced all of mine and replaced the fabric with oak
to match the interior.

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Underneath each corner there is a little corner bracket behind each
valance with two screws holding it to the wall. They are easily removed with a long blade Phillips head screwdriver. Power drills work great.

Quote
>

Also, along the bottom of the sill there are two or three screws
holding the tension. You can remove and replace them and restore the tension when you put them back together.

Re: Removing valances and shades

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 19499
Larry,

Funny that you should mention replacing the fabric valances with oak to match the cabinets. That's exactly what I did with mine throughout the coach this past spring. 8 or 9 windows in all but definitely worth the new look. The hardest part was getting the exact stain mix from Sherwin-Williams Commercial in Oregon to match the original cabinet stains. But now I have plenty for the next project; Ditching the headbanger and re-working the entire front section of overheads and putting in a flat screen. We'll start that one in February.

Kevin Barron

98 Intrigue 10550
Annapolis, MD