What Consumer Recommends for best blinds.

Owner from Curtain Clean BOP Ltd

Consumer NZ says these blinds are the best for keeping your home warm.


Forget your thermal or lined curtains, your roller or Roman blinds, the honeycomb blind leaves them all out in the cold.

According to a Consumer NZ test, the honeycomb retained more heat than any other kind of window treatment - nearly 60 per cent more than is lost through an uncovered window.

Its nearest competitor was a well-fitted Roman blind at just under 30 per cent. While the humble curtain barely got a look in, with even floor-length, heavy, lined curtains only breaking 25 per cent.


Smith says there were two reasons the blinds worked so well. Firstly, they were fitted inside the window frame, with the testers trying to "minimise the gaps down the sides and at the top and the bottom".

"Typically, you get a gap between the blind and the window frame where the cord hangs, whereas these didn't have that. They fitted right up to the edge."

Then there were the pockets of air inside the blinds themselves.

"I don't want to call them a down jacket, but they are almost like a down jacket in that they have these big pockets of air, so they're creating this really good insulation. It's a combination of the two actually: creating a still insulating layer of air, but also fitting really tightly.

"I think from everything we did that's the two bits of advice that we would give to anybody, no matter what type of blind or curtain you've got: make sure they're fitted as tightly as you can to minimise air gaps all around. Then go for as many layers or insulating thicknesses as you possibly can. That will get you the best result I think."


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At Curtain Clean we can clean and repair honeycomb or Duet blinds.