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Normally your go above the door several inches for the height and overlap the trim on each side by about 4 inches. But if you bought them out of stock your at the mercy of whatever size it is. If you go above the door use 2 inch screws and don't worry about hitting a stud because you will hit the header.
I would not spend a lot of money on them. If you use the sliding glass door a lot, the blinds will lnto last long. We had them on a door that was our only access to the back yard. We used it a lot. The blinds did not last a year before they had to be replaced. They just get operates and pushed around too much. We ended up going with nothing over the sliding glass door.
I have insulated draperies on both of mine.
Not a fan of vertical blinds.
The same with me. I only close the draperies when it gets very cold at night-below 0 or very hot in the summer.Rarely have to draw them closed in the summer as we have a covered deck.
Otherwise they just stay on each side of the glass. I don't need them for privacy as we back up to woods.
To me it was an economic and practical choice. Went to neighborhood Lowe's paid around $65, we installed after cut to the length needed. Used inside mount as later will have panel on nonused side to match panels on large adjacent pictire window. The plasric ones are indistrucible as long as you open all the way when using door.
All our windows use cellular shades mounted inside the window frame, flush with the wall. It makes a trim and neat installation.
The vertical blinds on the sliding doors are also mounted this way.
But, we have 6 inch studs so the wall is thicker, it might be a problem mounting them inside the frame in walls with 2x4 studs.
If you mount them inside the frame, make sure the control cords are on the same side as the stack, and that that's on the opposite side from the door handle.
Need help mounting vertical blinds below a transom window...chose inside mount but brackets are for ceiling mount. Thoughts on how to mount without drilling into the frame around the transom window? Or how to mount with side brackets without limiting the way the blinds move?
Hmm this has me thinking how we’ll handle covering our sliding glass doors out to the patio off the living room. That’s also the primary movie area so it needs to be capable of blackout level darkness but still look nice. A light privacy thing isn’t going to get it done. Hmm.
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