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Roman shades have their own two failure modes, and neither means the shade is finished. A lift cord snaps or frays and the shade stops lifting evenly. Or the shade hangs crooked, one side sitting lower than the other, and no amount of pulling squares it up. Both are repairs. We do them across Miami and South Florida on all brands, including no-name.
Roman shades are among the best candidates for repair of anything we work on. The fabric is the expensive part and it is usually the part that's fine — it's the cord, a consumable, that has failed.
Restringing puts a shade back into service that would otherwise be thrown away. The exception is fabric that has sun-rotted through, which does happen in Miami on west-facing windows. If new cord would just tear through weak fabric, we'll tell you.
A lift cord that has snapped completely, or is frayed and starting to give. New cord run through the existing rings and fabric, and the shade works again.
A shade that hangs crooked and won't sit level in the window. Almost never a damaged shade — usually a cord tension or mounting problem.
One side rising faster than the other, or folds that have gone out of square and no longer stack neatly when the shade is raised.
Roman shades are one of the most commonly custom-made and unbranded window treatments there is. Plenty of the ones we restring were made by a local workroom years ago with no label at all. That's fine.
We aim to attend as soon as possible — often the same day, and always within one to two days when we're busy.
Restringing is nearly always worth doing. We would rather put a good shade back into service than sell you a replacement you don't need.
Photograph it hanging: A photo of the whole shade hanging in the window tells us most of what we need — especially if it's sitting uneven.
We assess the fabric: We check whether the fabric will hold new cord before we recommend restringing.
We restring or level: New cord through the existing rings, or tension and mounting corrected so the shade sits square.
If replacing: Where the fabric has genuinely aged out, we make custom shades sized properly for the window.
Motorized shades on our 32nd-floor condo paid for themselves in AC savings within a year. The whole setup syncs with Alexa and the team walked us through everything in Spanish and English.
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Solar roller shades in our oceanfront condo cut the glare without blocking the view. Salt air hasn’t damaged anything in three years. Worth every dollar.
Miami, Brickell, North Miami, Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Coral Gables, Aventura, Doral, Pinecrest, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Palm Beach.
A photo of the whole shade hanging in the window tells us most of what we need. Text or email it over and we'll tell you what's involved, free.
