Venetian Blind Repair Kit

Anyone who owns cats or curious, yet slow-learning, children knows that venetian blinds aren't usually built to last. The slats will, in a very short time, get bend, warped, or plum snapped off.

Which, if you're a renter who's too cheap to tell your landlord you have cats, can be hard to explain.

Now, you can take your blinds to a repair shop, or you can go to a hardware store and search through their stock of blinds...and then you have to take the binds down...and then you have to disassemble the base...and then you have to pull out the center cable...and on, and on, and on. It's a hassle, and it can be expensive.

So, why not simply re-rigidify and re-connect the bent and broken slats?

This kit would consist of a half-inch wide by two-inch long by 16th-inch-thick pvc strip (available in cream, off-white, or ivory), a clamp to hold said strip in place, and epoxy.

To use, place the strip within a specially-designed depression in the clamp, and apply a strip of epoxy to the exposed side of the strip.

Then just hold the broken piece of the slat in place, and position the clamp so that the repair strip is on the bottom of the slat. Come back in three hours, release the clamp, and the strip stays in place. For fully-severed slats, simply repeat.

Given that glued strips are often stronger than single pieces of the same thickness, this would probably leave the blinds stronger than they were before Fluffy screwed them up.