1" Metal Miniblind Repair Tool

sadly after cleaning my near 15 venetian blinds several got slats damaged while the blinds were hanging to drop - they were bent vertically ie bent down from horizontal flat and straight position - they looked so bad that i planned to replace several of the most damaged ones - shortly after the clean i received this repair tool - it fixed all bends to look satisfactory and not need replacing - all here put back to near perfect horizontal and flat position - there were some where the semi circle bend of the slats were not perfectly as they were originally but considering the significant damage through their not being hung to dry properly the look pretty good - there is an option to remove bends but also to restore the slight semi circle reasonably - i certainly recommend this reasonable priced tool to everyone who has venetian blinds as over time it is inevitable that they may be become damaged

Don't waste your money. This product did not work to straighten a bent vane on a window blind in our basement. If anything, it only made it worse. As another reviewer has stated, if you squeeze too hard, it will create small wavy bends on the edges of the blind, which it then is totally ineffective to remove. You end up squeezing too hard because you repeatedly try to get it to remove the original dents without success. This tool MAY work somewhat better if the vane is only bent upward or downward without twists or dents. But if its twisted or dented, forget it.You are better off reshaping the blind as best you can with just your fingertips, or better yet, using a 3/4 inch dowel or pvc pipe to create a form beneath the vane and pressing the blind down against it, working your fingers down the length to reshape it. This method also does not cause further distortion. We are returning the product for refund.

I have to admit when I first got this and tried it, it seemed like it totally didn't work. I even had a hard time getting it into the device. I tried to instantly crimp the portion of the blind that was damaged and it didn't change it. It still looked damaged and bent. I was beginning to think 'what a waste of money.' I went away for a few minutes about to call Home Depot to see if they simply had new blinds in stock. Then I stopped myself and thought I'd better give it at least one last try. This time I held the damaged part in the device at a curve and held it for about 30-40 seconds. When I released it it had made it significantly better this time. Then I did kind of the same thing in three little areas on the same damaged part again to try and clean it up a bit more. I would say that made it better by another 20%. I think the key here is you have to hold the damaged part curved in the device for at least 40 seconds, maybe even pushing your thumb along it, and then kind of focus more on the nuanced parts of the same damage portion to try and clean it up after the first attempt. I would say if you are a patient person and are willing to treat the process as a kind of microscopic surgery to an extent as opposed to a job you can complete instantly then I think you'll appreciate this device. If the blinds are still hanging it's basically a situation of pulling up a chair for a good half hour and getting to work like a craftsman on them. Maybe you can speed up the process as you get good at it but just prepare yourself to treat it as if you were about to carve a small wood sculpture. It is rewarding though once you see them sort of come back to life. To add, this really works best on blinds that have been bent simply at a 90 degree angle rather than those that are actually mangled and bumpy. Like I said with the bumps it really takes a bit of work and nuanced focus to get those looking decent again.

We have some old metal mini blinds that have a few bent slats. I read about this tool on a blog and bought it because it is inexpensive. While it is awkward to use near the cords in the blinds, it did help to bend the slats back without leaving any marks. However, while the blinds look better, the bends are still obvious, they just lie flatter. This may be because the bends were old--the blinds came with the house and may have been bent for years. Or it may be that this toll can only do so much.

I'm still patting myself on the back for making this purchase. My blinds weren't bent as bad as some others I've seen, but there were a few slats out of wack here and there. It drove me nuts to look at.I followed the instructions of the tool, made a couple passes on each slat while they were closed until they looked good. Then I opened the blinds, there were a couple that looked off when the blinds were open so I repeated the process on the opened slats until it looked good, closed them to check and fine tuned until perfection. The whole process reminded me of using an eyelash curler, gentle but firm squeezing until curved just right, lol.This is a great little tool, I definitely recommend.

Preparing home for sale and a number of mini blinds were damaged by 27 years of cat paws. Any bent or deformed blind will either need to be replaced or we were looking at thousands of $ of loss resale value. Bought the Miniblindrx because for the price I had nothing to lose. What a magic fix. Most of the bends are right at the string areas and this ingenious tool has a split in the tool that accommodates the tool and it's fix. These are the common mass marketed mini-blinds (you know the mfg) and it worked like a champ! I'm not a great review writer, but I'm sold on this tool and any prospective Real Estate Broker needs to recommend one to their clients.

Very disappointed in the MiniBlindrx. I had about 10 slats that were bent and could not get one of them to straighten out the way the video demonstrates. I double checked the video to make sure I did everything the right way but could not get the slats to lie straight. I found the tool a bit awkward to use on the slats as well.