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Installing Natural Bamboo Sliding Panel Shades
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" Cindy O'Reilly is here with her helper Lauren and we're in the bamboo shade business right -- accelerated -- about -- I love the idea of natural blinds in the home. And what you're installing here is a different kind draft yes it's called a panel track. Perfect for vertical doors -- and that's something you've gotten a lot of Florida houses and elsewhere is big. Patio doors sliding doors and the like and so this is uninteresting solution -- his. It it's I've never seen them before the kind of like sliding bypass doors yes they act now. How do you how do you go about ordering something like this from Smith and noble."
" It's easy we have a Cadillac and we have no website and I'm just reading instructions in the catalog there's some fine print about measuring just measure the exact dimensions. And then we'll ask you to mount the head rail about five inches above the dimensions so."
" It did very -- it is it's do it yourself stuff."
" Would you -- so far involves the brackets right yes. So -- without racket and then we put up head rail which has found about five tracks he. And the tracks will depend on that window and the window of course and now she's just putting the panels up with velcro and then a few little --"
" Loose screws in addition to the don't know make sure that the security here well this when you already finished right yes the for the panel track -- can I operate this yes. Look at that movement and slide smoothly behind the other behind the other and then of course when they're all open. It's just this width that you're still seeing that yet."
" Like he's getting at mounted a little bit outside so that your overlap conventional while -- but it's your choice yet yet."
" Now measuring can still be a challenge for some people as a new anyway did you get help."
" We are developing a measure and installation program but we're slowly rolling it out across the country and it."
" Is here for example you've got an eight foot with the opening is really -- I suppose most people would know that you don't really want 18 foot width you see here that we've chosen two natural woven shades --"
" And they -- in -- that there's not too much weight. We split it."
" And the break is right where right in the sense -- between the two. Windows so it's kind of a natural thing plus it gives you an option having one down and one of its purpose and now these her with new Roman shades right they act. Flat Roman -- classroom in St. silicon in nice smooth appearance are you like the little rippled effect when it's raised but how much custom much customizing can you do this in terms of colors --"
" goodness we have so many choices we've got over fifty edge bindings we've got several materials probably about sixty or seventy materials you can she's found old wood when you say material things. Actually it's bamboo right these are bamboo yes and this bamboo is actually from the inside of of some of the sand the the have you."
" I just ripped some off from the garden project outside in and which which you've done through these is you've kind of split them into real thin. I didn't woven on a loom or what they."
" Banana limb and actually each reed here is hand."
" Fed through the room the wrapped his hand -- in the work this thing so there's a person there that's actually inserting. Yeah this slits of bamboo into it yes it's much a lot of labor. But is made in China yes. Thanks so much and they really beautiful yeah. And they give you crimes."
