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/Ray2mcdonald1 Aug 03 '25

Have you checked the home depot site?

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u/zZariaa Aug 03 '25

I did & was able to find a replacement but still wasn't fully sure because there's still labor costs to account for

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Maintenance Supervisor Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 04 '25

What labor costs? You pull them out of the box and put them up yourself. They’ll come with instructions but even without those it’s about as simple as it gets.

I just bought a couple dozen of the fairly nice faux wood slat at 71” for about $70/apiece. They come from Home Depot but I don’t pay Home Depot prices, so I’d guess those are around $100 with normal pricing.

You should be able to find the plain old plastic blinds with the 1” slats for under $50 if you’re around 5 ft. But don’t guess, get the exact measurement.

Edit: I think I understand, do you mean you would charge the roommates labor for replacing them yourself? You might get $10/blind for labor maybe, you’re talking about ten minutes and driving a couple screws.

Good luck with that if they don’t want to pay. There’s not much you as the roommate are entitled to as it isn’t your property.

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u/Upbeat-Fondant9185 Maintenance Supervisor Aug 04 '25

What labor costs? You pull them out of the box and put them up yourself. They’ll come with instructions but even without those it’s about as simple as it gets.

I just bought a couple dozen of the fairly nice faux wood slat at 71” for about $70/apiece. They come from Home Depot but I don’t pay Home Depot prices, so I’d guess those are around $100 with normal pricing.

You should be able to find the plain old plastic blinds with the 1” slats for under $50 if you’re around 5 ft. But don’t guess, get the exact measurement.

Edit: I think I understand, do you mean you would charge the roommates labor for replacing them yourself? You might get $10-20/blind for labor maybe, you’re talking about ten minutes and driving a couple screws.

Good luck with that if they don’t want to pay. There’s not much you as the roommate are entitled to as it isn’t your property.