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Part 2: How To
 Mount
a Top-Down/Bottom-Up Shade
These instructions assume that you will are using pulleys and cord cleats on your headrail. If you are using screw eyes instead of pulleys, simply replace the word pulley with screw eye. You will still need a separate small screw eye at each end so that the knotted cords don't pull through. See the additional instructions if you are using cord locks. These instructions also assume that you will have the Top-Down controls on the left-hand side of the shade, and the Bottom-Up controls on the right-hand side of the shade. You don't have to do that, but if you reverse the cord locations, it's up to you to reverse left and right in the instructions below. You ALWAYS have the Top-Down pulleys on the FRONT of the headrail and the Bottom-Up pulleys on the BACK of the headrail. Step 7. Test the Bottom-Up Operation
Test the Top-Down operation by pulling on the lift cord. The shade should pull up and down in clean folds and the top of the shade should be level. Lower the shade and finish off the cords by braiding the cords after the knot, then inserting the ends into a cord drop. The end of the braided cords should be as short as possible, it will get longer when you raise the shade. Extend your arm straight out toward the window and use that location to determine the position of the cord drop when the shade is lowered completely.
Step 9. Verify that your shade can do both functions. You can lower the top of the shade and then raise the bottom. You may want to do this to provide ventilation, or you may just want to show off!
Now you need to make and attach your Valance. A
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Test the Bottom-Up operation by pulling on the lift cord. The shade should pull up in clean folds
and the bottom of the shade should be level. Finish off the cords by braiding
the cords, then inserting the ends into a cord drop. The end of the braided
cords should be as short as possible, it will get longer when you raise the
shade. Extend your arm straight out toward the window and use that location to
determine the position of the cord drop when the shade is lowered completely.
Step 8. Complete Top-Down Function
Make sure that the shade is in the down position by releasing the Bottom-Up
cords (right-hand side) from the cord cleat. Un-cleat the Top-Down
lift cords on the left-hand side of the shade. Firmly grasp all of the lift
cords and lower the shade. Check that the top is level by stopping the shade
just below the window trim. Readjust tension on cords if necessary. Continue to
lower the shade. It should fall in clean folds since it is guided by
the Bottom-Up cords. When it is in the lowest position that you want, carefully
knot all the cords at the top of the shade, just outside of the small screw eye.
Your knot has to be large enough so that it cannot pass back through the
screw eye.
What is the best lowest position for my Top-Down shade. You decide.
The smallest size of the shade will be the Top-Down Stackage. You may want to have more
of the shade "open" to provide privacy. When the shade is the
lowest position that you want it to fall, knot the left-hand lift cords just
outside the small screw eye.
