This is the Day-Night shade over the kitchen cabinet . For those not familiar with day-night shades, they pull up and down with the night position (as shown) not letting anyone see in or out. Raise the bar that appears white (plastic reflexs the light while the fabric absorbs it so it appears white) and the curtain is sheer for day and you can raise the bottom bar and have no curtain at all.
The whole shade is like an accordion with strings running top to bottom to control the action.
A string in this shade broke shortly after we bought the trailer but we didn't have it repaired because we live in it fulltime and it would have to go into the shop for it to be repaired under warranty. After the warranty had expired and we could take it to the shop for repair the cost was over $100.
Last week the strings in the big day-night (it has four strings) shade in the living room broke and fixing them was now a priority.
I googled the string and came up with http://www.fixmyblinds.com/ , it showed how to fix the shades and I bought the strings at a craft shore.
The sight says the rv day-night shades use 1.4mm string but the smallest I could find was 1.8. I bought it and repaired the small kitchen blind but the 1.8mm was smaller than what came in the shade. I bought a larger size string for the living room shade because it is raised and lower every day.
Total cost for both shades was less than $15 including a large needle I purchased to thread the shades.
Our shades are tan colored and the only thread I could find was white but they actually blend in better as the original thread was a much darker color than the shade material.
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