Vertical Window Blinds - The Patio Door Tamer!

Vertical window blinds are the perfect choice for sliding glass doors. They are made for each other.

I can open my sliding door tilt my verticals for privacy and sit there and enjoy the wide open back yard.

With any other treatment it's all or none. I ether have privacy and can't see out or I can see out but have absolutely no privacy.

People seem to have a love hate relationship with Vertical Window Blinds . They either love them or can't stand them. To be honest part of the problem stems from the fact that when verticals window blinds first came on the market back in the seventies they became so popular so fast that their wasn't enough time to test the vane material.

A result of not testing was that a number of the slat material used proved to be totally worthless for vertical vanes. For instance because aluminum had been used with great success for Venetian blinds they rushed to market with every color you could think of aluminum vertical slat.

This turned out to be a huge mistake. In the Venetian blinds the slats are separated by tapes and don't touch each other but when hung from the top on vertical tracks they hang straight and even as long as there wasn't any breeze.

With just the slightest breeze you had the aluminum vanes hitting each other and the resulting out of sink wind chimes made a ungodly noise that no one could stand to be around.

They tried to keep the vanes separate with a chain at the bottom but that proved to be more of a nuisance than the clanking of the slats.

I still had people years later come into the store and say they didn't want vertical because they were too noisy.

Another bad rap came from using material that tended to unravel when the vanes kept hitting into each other. The reason as I said before was that they didn't take time to test the different material.

Quite a few of the first vertical slat material came from what they had made window shades out of for years. The material looked and worked good as long as they didn't touch or rub on one another.

Once they touched or rubbed each other they broke down and started to unravel.

Todays vertical window blinds have eliminated these problems. They no longer use aluminum vanes, the chains at the bottom are long gone and the unraveling problem with fabric vertical vanes is history.

The vertical on the market today are extremely good looking, especially my favorite vertical. They are easy to clean and whisper quiet.

They are perfect for sliding glass doors as you can angle the vanes to see out and at the same time keep your noisy neighbor from looking in.

With a horizontal blind you need to mount the blind so far above the door opening, to have head room, that they tend to look out of place and awkward.

There are a few vertical alternative on the market but they are basically just a vertical with a sheer material built in to give the vertical some softness. They are called Vertical Blind Alternatives . I have sometimes seen them referred too as vertical shadings.

They are extremely good looking but they are on the upper end of window treatments as far as price is concerned.

Todays vertical window blinds deserve a better rap than they get. They are extremely useful, fairly good looking(with a valance and side panels they are gorgeous)and most importantly they are economical to use.

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