Curtains too short

[Allyson]

Does anyone have a problem with lying in bed and the sun shines down though the curtain?I haven't a problem with the sun shining its just once a while it would be nice to wake up when you wanted too, not the sun or the alarm clock.

It looks like that the curtains have not been made long enough.

We try to over come this by standing the side cushions up against the curtain and have our pillows hold these tight against the window.

It works, but why haven't caravan manafactures thought of this? May be they have. One thing we thought was a good idea to prevent the sun shining down is blinds that come up. The housing case they sit in must do the trick. We did see someone had sawn a strip of material onto the bottom of the curtain when we visited a caravan dealer in Somerset.It didn't look right.

Any other suggestions

 

[MikeA]

Hi Allyson,

If you want a drastic solution, buy a Bailey - their blinds come from the bottom.

How about velcro squares at the bottom corners of the curtains to stick them back to the van wall?

Cheers,

Mike A

 

[Allyson]

Hi Allyson,

If you want a drastic solution, buy a Bailey - their blinds come from the bottom.

How about velcro squares at the bottom corners of the curtains to stick them back to the van wall?

Cheers,

Mike A

We are looking to buy a bailey caravan for this reason. LOL

 

[RogerL]

Get some foam pipe insulation. Cut it to length to suit the width of the window and then carefully cut one quarter of the circle all the way along. Cut out where the window catches are. It'll sit nicely on the sill and fill the gap.

If you've got pull-down blinds with pull-down flyscreens pull both down as well as using the curtains.

 

[MikeP]

Paint your windows black?

Pitch your van in a barn with the doors closed?

We find that closing the flyscreens as well as the blinds helps to keep the early morning sunlight out, as the flyscreens are a closer fit to the edge of the window.

 

[Allyson]

Get some foam pipe insulation. Cut it to length to suit the width of the window and then carefully cut one quarter of the circle all the way along. Cut out where the window catches are. It'll sit nicely on the sill and fill the gap.

If you've got pull-down blinds with pull-down flyscreens pull both down as well as using the curtains.

Thanks Roger L for tip

I will give that a go, when we go away in June and let you know.

 

[R_5111876]

We had the same problem of excess light early mornings. used the self adhesive type draft excluder. With our van it is the gap between the flyscreen and blind that allows light through. (the gap between the flyscreen and the window surround is almost nil) The solution was to apply self adhesive draught excluder (not the foam type as this looks horrible and the glue comes unstuck after a time. Use the nylon pile type available from large DIY stores (the glue on this is exceptionally strong and we needed two rolls to do all windows)) and stick a full width strip to the flyscreen bottom bar and a full width strip to the blind bottom bar so that when they are fully down the nylon pile on each of the draughtseals meet each other and can seal a gap between 8-10mm in total.

This fix looks professional (I would say almost factory fitted) and unobtrusive

Hope this helps

 

[Wendy-Norfolk]

Hi Allyson,

If you want a drastic solution, buy a Bailey - their blinds come from the bottom.

How about velcro squares at the bottom corners of the curtains to stick them back to the van wall?

Cheers,

Mike A

Swift group blinds also pull up from the bottom, but they are the nice slatted looking ones! :O)

 

[Allyson]

We had the same problem of excess light early mornings. used the self adhesive type draft excluder. With our van it is the gap between the flyscreen and blind that allows light through. (the gap between the flyscreen and the window surround is almost nil) The solution was to apply self adhesive draught excluder (not the foam type as this looks horrible and the glue comes unstuck after a time. Use the nylon pile type available from large DIY stores (the glue on this is exceptionally strong and we needed two rolls to do all windows)) and stick a full width strip to the flyscreen bottom bar and a full width strip to the blind bottom bar so that when they are fully down the nylon pile on each of the draughtseals meet each other and can seal a gap between 8-10mm in total.

This fix looks professional (I would say almost factory fitted) and unobtrusive

Hope this helps

Thanks R

I think that is where the sun shines down in our van.

When someone previously said to me to close the fly screen and the blind, I did think well I do that all ready and it still shines through.