Child safe window blinds
Hunter Douglas Everwood® Blinds for Child-and Pet-safe Options

Home Safety Ideas to Consider

ByBlind Builders, Inc.
Child safe window blinds
Hunter Douglas Everwood® Blinds for Child-and Pet-safe Options

Every home is filled with hidden dangers, especially where kids and pets are concerned. With October being National Window Covering Safety Month, we at Blind Builders here in Feasterville are bringing attention to the hazards of dangling window treatment cords. If you’ve got older window fashions in your home, they’re likely to have dangling cords, which can present harm to young children and pets. Read on to learn about options for making your home safer!  

Removing Dangers

The Window Covering Safety Council was designed to help ensure the safety of all window treatments throughout the country, and the council highlights October as a time to remind homeowners to not only childproof things like outlets and sharp edges but also windows and window treatments. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission tells us that corded window fashions are one of the top five hidden hazards to children. If infants and toddlers (and pets) can reach dangling cords, they could be strangled, potentially resulting in brain damage or death.

Safer Operating Systems 

With new Hunter Douglas window fashions, you can choose from numerous child- and pet-safe operating systems, including:

  • Cordless operating system, a spring-assisted system hidden in the headrail.
  • LiteRise®, a system that operates with simple hand pressure to raise and lower the treatment. 
  • UltraGlide®, a single retractable cord or wand.
  • SimpleLift™, a system that has a button on the bottom rail that controls raising and lowering. 
  • SoftTouch® motorization, a battery-powered system that lets you simply pull down on or push up on a wand.
  • PowerView® Automation, a programmable motorized system that lets program when your window treatments move; it can be controlled remotely, even from halfway around the world. 

Other Options

If you’re not ready to dive into new treatments just yet, you can still use other means to make your older treatments safer. Simply shorten any dangling cords or tuck them up and out of reach and keep cribs and beds away from corded treatments (ideally on the other side of the room if possible). Finally, you can get a free retrofit kit that can help make your cords as safe as possible. Just go to https://windowcoverings.org/retrofit-your-windows/ to order one from the Window Covering Safety Council.

Child-Safe Lift Systems in Feasterville, Bucks County PA Areas

Blind Builders Inc is a service-oriented business specializing in custom blinds, shades, shutters, and motorization solutions. No matter what your window treatment needs may be, we are here to help. We serve residential & commercial customers throughout Bucks and Montgomery County including Newtown, Yardley, Doylestown, and Warrington, PA, and surrounding areas.

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