Hi Rocket, hope you are both well.

I have those silly blinds that go up for privacy and down for insect screen in the aluminium teepee. Hate 'em. So. I got some good quality material with a blockout backing, cut them to size and my daughter sewed them up for me. I then fitted them and used stretchy wire. Now, live 'em. The originals just stay open.

Smoke from the fire on the floor in middle doesn't effect them cos I changed to modern fitted gas heating.


Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

All good just a war wound on the right leg. That was Feb 2019 when that happened and only just got sorted early this year.

At least 2019 was a year. So far this year it looks like it might go down to a non year. Bring on 2021.






Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

-- Edited by Dougwe on Saturday 13th of June 2020 05:18:50 PM

I have those brown numbers with the rubber backing and they are starting to look a little bit tired.

I have tried everywhere but it seems no one makes replacements for these type of curtains.

As they came standard in most vans up to a few years ago I thought that they would be easily replaced as they are all standard sizes.

It seems unless you want the blind types you have to find someone to make some. I understand Spotlight does it in some stores but seems a bit stupid that the original suppliers do not continue to make replacements for their product.

I'm a bit of a fan of the block out curtains. 

Our 20yo ones have a set of lace draw curtains behind them that can be closed to give some daytime privacy but still enable a view while letting in light.  A couple of those have torn, deteriorated from sunlight perhaps, so I made up replacements on my beaut $99 singer sewing machine.  A not very professional job (have you ever tried sewing lace), but quite functional.

I have seen a couple of DIY roller blinds fitted to vans but they just didn't make the grade for me so we stuck with the block out + lace curtains.