Cellular Blinds - Levolor vs. Hunter Douglas
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Comments (10)I sell blinds and you are correct, Hunter Douglas blinds are expensive. Comfortex is also a Hunter Douglas Company, Levelor stay away from. The tilters break. Bali is about as low end as you can get, very low quality. Graber and Bali are the same. Call a local window covering dealer. Many times they will have access to off brand vendors and most measure and install for free. In our area we can usually do all this for less than you going to Home Depot and doing it yourself. Here is a link that might be useful: decovan blinds and shutters...See MoreWood blinds: Hunter Douglas vs. all others?
Comments (1)I'm not sure about the wood blind but I can vouch for their shutters! I'm willing to bet their wood blinds are of great quality too. I compared quite a few companies before going with HD and they won hands down. Their shutter products seemed more sturdy when opening and closing (some feel jiggly and flimsy) and well-made. Hopefully someone will have a wood blinds review for you....See MoreCellular shades- Hunter Douglas, Graber, Bali? HELP!
Comments (19)I just went thru a mess with Bali and Graber both owned by Spring Window. They use cheapo Fedex whose Troutdale hub is a black hole for anything shipped. Endless threads on this on Reddit. Lowes staff is sick of the complaints regarding Fedex too but execs at Lowes still support these brands. I canceled the order since they could never get it to arrive in full. I waited over and over again for delivery based on Fedex lies. Just done. The Graber brand charges way more than the Bali brand but they use the same parts! The quality control is not great since Spring Window has them made in Mexico and shipped across the border and then uses Fedex zonal shipping which is the cheapest worst black hole shipping method. The beads get sucked into the clutches way too easily. On my testing blackout and solar shades I found the blackout had glue on it which made a tearing sound with closing them. I cleaned off the glue but the glue ruined the finish on the vinyl. They sent a replacement and realized they cut the first one wrong and was narrower! Dealing with Lowes escalation department is a joke and they bully consumers when those customers have had it with all the games. They requested that I either donate the only two blinds and want me to drive around and take care of that or they wanted me to cut them up and send a picture and then put in my garbage. I told them have Fedex come pick them up since they caused most of the problems with all this. I also had to say I will then submit a claim with my credit card if they won't give me a refund. Since they want to play hardball with all this. Lowes and Spring Window do not allow you to pick the shipper either. Also with zonal cheap delivery with Fedex neither Fedex or Spring window scan the packages but load them up on pallets and ship them to regional hubs and then they are scanned and then take the slowest method to the destination. I watched how the tracking stopped at three CA cities that were not far from each other before they headed north to Oregon. Talk about your pony express. Then thru all that they lose them. Won't do that gain and won't use any online retailer that uses Fedex. I don't mind if things take longer but I really do mind being lied to over and over. That was the worst of it. I don't like the fact that Lowes knows there is a problem with Fedex and still puts their customers thru that meat grinder shipper. I am kind of rethinking what to do with this but right now this past year with the pandemic and so many retailers lying and not being honest about availability etc I am just tabling anymore buying until things improve. Also Fedex lost the Amazon contract this past year. I know Fedex likes to say they dumped Amazon but in realty Amazon waited till they were able to deliver 50% of everything before they made their insulting offer to Fedex. The offer was so bad Fedex had to turn it down. So I get the frustration Amazon had with Fedex and made their point that way. But I see their stock dropping and top executives cashing out more stock which they tend to cash out when the stock is doing better. So it wouldn't surprise me if Fedex finally files bankruptcy since it has had financially problems for decades. If Fedex can't be valued more during a pandemic when folks are stuck with using shippers that says a lot about the lack of confidence investors have with this company overall. Fedex saves money subbing out workers and trucks and still they can't get things done right. Whereas UPS hires their own workers, owns their own trucks and pay benefits and the staff have a vested interest to getting things done. Plus they make sure the fleet is has regular maintenance done to keep the trucks in operation. I bet they have less stealing too....See MoreRoller Shades - Horizons vs Hunter Douglas vs Enlightened Style
Comments (4)Hey There: There is no really a life time warranty on any of the products - they are all limited life time and they require to use their installers to do the work. The warranty for BudgetBlinds for example are at the discretion of each franchise owner.... I don't want to steer up a "sh*tstorm" here - I want to tell you that you should choose the company and roller shade fabric you love. Good Luck on your project....See MoreAC LB
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