GUIDE 01 · START HERE
How to measure windows for roller blinds
The full method: steel tape, millimetres, three places, smallest number wins. With the measure sheet to print and fill in.
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Most DIY blind jobs fail at the tape measure, not the drill
How to measure and fit your own blinds in Newcastle and the Hunter
The guides on this site teach the whole job: the measure, the tools, the traps, flagged before you hit them. Nothing here is for sale. And when a window isn't the Saturday kind, we'll say so, and a free in-home measure and quote is one form away.
FIG. 1 · Measure the width in three places. Use the smallest. The manual's first and best lesson.
PART 01 · THE MEASURE
A blind ordered wrong can't be un-cut
Made-to-measure means made to your measure. The drill work is twenty minutes; the tape work is what decides whether the blind fits, runs true and blocks the light you wanted blocked. These three guides are the ones to read before anything gets ordered.
GUIDE 02
Reveal fit or face fit: which one, and why it changes the measure
The first decision on the order form, made properly. Depth checks, light gaps, and when face fit rescues a leaning window.
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GUIDE 03
The classic measuring mistakes, and how each one gets made
Ten ways a careful person still orders the wrong blind. Every one avoidable once you've seen it coming.
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PART 02 · KNOW THE JOB BEFORE YOU START
Every blind type, graded honestly
Not every window covering is a DIY job, and the ones that aren't don't announce themselves in the showroom. We grade every type the way the guides do:
Easy
A confident first-timer with a drill, a level and a free morning gets a clean result. Rollers live here.
Fiddly
Doable, but the tolerances tighten and the mistakes cost more. Venetians, verticals and Romans live here.
Don't attempt
Bay windows, motorisation, big spans, whole-house batches. Not a dare, a false economy. We explain why, plainly.
PART 03 · THE PLANNER
DIY or done for you? Grade every window before you order a thing
Describe each window the way the manual would ask: rough width, reveal or face, whether the diagonals match, how high it sits, whose room it is. The planner hands back an honest call per window: easy, fiddly, or don't attempt this one, with the reason stated plainly.
Four windows might be a good Saturday. Two might be the false economy. You'll leave knowing which is which, and neither answer costs you anything.
THE WORK, AS IT ACTUALLY LOOKS
Illustrative images: the method, not a specific job.
PART 04 · CORDS AND KIDS
The one part of a blind install that's law, not preference
Corded blinds and curtains are covered by a mandatory Australian safety standard, because loose cords have killed children in this country. If you fit your own blinds, the cleats, tensioners and cord guides in the box are not optional packaging. Our guide teaches the rules in plain terms, straight from the regulator.
PART 05 · WHERE YOU'RE MEASURING
The same tape, different traps
A new estate window at Fletcher and a Cooks Hill terrace window are both "a window" right up until the tape comes out. The area guides carry what changes: which measures matter most, which fits forgive, and which local habit ruins an order.
AREA GUIDE · WEST
Blinds in Fletcher, Chisholm and the new estates
Twenty bare windows, one handover budget, square reveals in your favour. The batch-measure discipline that keeps it that way.
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AREA GUIDE · INNER
Blinds for older Newcastle homes: Cooks Hill, Hamilton, Islington
Terraces and weatherboards where nothing is square and the footpath is close. Privacy first, diagonals always.
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AREA GUIDE · COAST
Blinds near the beach: Merewether, Bar Beach, Stockton
Salt air eats chain and bracket hardware, glare comes off the water, and The Hill wants its harbour view kept.
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Nothing on this site is for sale. No cart, no checkout, no prices. The guides are free because teaching the job properly is the whole point, and the only thing we'll ever offer to sell you is the visit from someone who measures windows for a living. Here's how that works.
