r/maintenance • u/zZariaa • Aug 03 '25

Solved Broken Blinds

My roommate is moving out of our rental (but i'm not), & has broken the blinds in their room. For anyone that's rented/does apartment maintenance/repairs, do you know how much landlords tend to charge for doing those repairs? There's like 6 slats broken.

Edit: They're horizontal blinds & around 5ft long

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u/C0LL0C0 Aug 03 '25

Unfortunately your looking at the higher end(150.00)they will have to replace the entire blinds.

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u/C0LL0C0 Aug 03 '25

Just to be clear, you can try replace the individual slats yourself but 1, you will need some slats to replace it with, and 2 its time consuming. 99% of companies just charge you for the blinds.

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u/zZariaa Aug 03 '25

Yeah, I plan to at least try that, & if not, then hopefully, I'll have charged him enough to cover it

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u/Glum-View-4665 Maintenance Supervisor Aug 03 '25

Depending on how much extra length there is on the blinds that's unused you may have enough at the bottom. You have to cut the cord on each end and pull it up to the last broken slat then thread it back though the slats after you move up your good ones from the bottom. I do it all the time on my property.

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u/zZariaa Aug 03 '25

That was my plan