Hello everyone,
our roller shutters let in an extreme amount of light at the bottom left and right corners, causing the entire shutter to be illuminated. This is very disturbing, especially in the bedroom and children’s room. The pictures show the roller shutters fully closed, yet the light only comes through the bottom corners.
Someone from the company took another look (only from the outside, they did not check from inside) and said this is how it’s supposed to be. I have never experienced such light penetration in any apartment before, so I find this quite strange. Here is the response we received by email afterwards:
Depending on the type of roller shutter and the guide rail construction, more or less light can enter here. The roller shutter type and guide rail construction were requested by us as specified in the scope of work, and we offered and finally installed exactly this construction.
According to the RAL guidelines, the roller shutter guide rail must not align flush with the window drip edge; there must be at least 8 mm (0.3 inches) of space, less is not permitted, and we have achieved these 8 mm (0.3 inches) in your case.
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Of course, our service contract from the architectural firm did not state that the shutters should let in as much light as if there were no shutter. I would not understand why such constructions should even exist either.
My questions now are:
How is it with you? Do you experience this kind of brightness? How do your corners look? Would you say this is normal?
our roller shutters let in an extreme amount of light at the bottom left and right corners, causing the entire shutter to be illuminated. This is very disturbing, especially in the bedroom and children’s room. The pictures show the roller shutters fully closed, yet the light only comes through the bottom corners.
Someone from the company took another look (only from the outside, they did not check from inside) and said this is how it’s supposed to be. I have never experienced such light penetration in any apartment before, so I find this quite strange. Here is the response we received by email afterwards:
Depending on the type of roller shutter and the guide rail construction, more or less light can enter here. The roller shutter type and guide rail construction were requested by us as specified in the scope of work, and we offered and finally installed exactly this construction.
According to the RAL guidelines, the roller shutter guide rail must not align flush with the window drip edge; there must be at least 8 mm (0.3 inches) of space, less is not permitted, and we have achieved these 8 mm (0.3 inches) in your case.
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Of course, our service contract from the architectural firm did not state that the shutters should let in as much light as if there were no shutter. I would not understand why such constructions should even exist either.
My questions now are:
How is it with you? Do you experience this kind of brightness? How do your corners look? Would you say this is normal?
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nordanney21 Jun 2024 21:02Hausbau12 schrieb:
otherwise too much light still comes in.If you can’t sleep in the morning because of too much (I don’t see much light in your case), it’s not your fault but your body’s, because you are no longer tired enough.Hausbau12 schrieb:
My questions now are:
How is it with you?Jesse Custer schrieb:
The guides do NOT extend all the way down to the window sill.For us, the guides look exactly like yours. Whether it’s 8mm (0.3 inches) or 2cm (0.8 inches)… I think it’s more like 2cm (0.8 inches) or even more. But it’s dark here! The slats close all the way down. We don’t have a rubber lip at the bottom. What confuses me is your last slat. This last “slat” is not inside the guide rail.
What is that visible part there? For us, it’s a rather angular end piece that, apart from lacking the curvature, doesn’t differ from the other slats and is also positioned inside the guide.
Today, I took a closer look at the bottom of our window frame. Our blinds close completely all the way down, and the room is pitch dark. No light at all gets in. So it can be done differently. I usually leave the top two rows of the slats slightly open so I can tell when it’s “morning”...
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nordanney22 Jun 2024 11:25Mahri23 schrieb:
Today, I took a look at our bottom closure. Our blinds go all the way down, and the room is completely dark. Not a single bit of light gets in. So it can be done differently. I always leave two rows of the slats open at the top so I can tell it's "morning"...You also don’t have an aluminum window sill. That makes a really big difference in the installation.J
Jesse Custer22 Jun 2024 14:38And you have a significantly smaller gap between the window and the roller blind – even if some light were to shine through, there wouldn't be much room for it to wander around...
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Hausbau1222 Jun 2024 18:50@nordanney Well, it’s not that simple. Light does disturb sleep, even a small amount is enough. Especially with my two-year-old, who then thinks it’s already morning.
@ypg I found this end piece under “end rod glider” on Google. The part is semi-transparent, so even if everything else went all the way down, light would still get through there. I really don’t understand why it isn’t just, for example, anthracite. That option exists. Unfortunately, replacing it doesn’t seem straightforward either. From the videos I watched, they disassemble quite a bit and sometimes work from the outside. We can’t do that easily, otherwise I would have at least tried it.
My idea was to find an end rod glider that isn’t transparent and extends further outward and downward, but so far I haven’t found one. I did find a site where someone made their end rod gliders with a 3D printer. If only you could install that annoying piece properly…
@ypg I found this end piece under “end rod glider” on Google. The part is semi-transparent, so even if everything else went all the way down, light would still get through there. I really don’t understand why it isn’t just, for example, anthracite. That option exists. Unfortunately, replacing it doesn’t seem straightforward either. From the videos I watched, they disassemble quite a bit and sometimes work from the outside. We can’t do that easily, otherwise I would have at least tried it.
My idea was to find an end rod glider that isn’t transparent and extends further outward and downward, but so far I haven’t found one. I did find a site where someone made their end rod gliders with a 3D printer. If only you could install that annoying piece properly…