Practical Cellular Shades With A Simple Remote Control

Remote-control cellular shades to the rescue …

A High-Window Installation For Cellular Shades With A Remote Control

That’s a high window, isn’t it? A customer needed to cover it up to protect her loft furniture, carpet and paintings from the sun. Her loft was opposite to the window, almost the same height.

She wisely chose remote-control, light-filtering cellular shades. These ones are called PowerRise® and Hunter Douglas makes them.

The Headrail Front Flips Open And The Battery Pack Secured In Clips Shows Up – Motorized Cellular Shades

The headrail front opens up. There is room in there to house a plastic cylinder loaded with 8 AA long-life batteries to power the electric motor.

An 8 AA Battery Power Pack That Runs The Motors

Note :
You can check out a variation on storing a power pack by surfing over to the notes about remote-control blackout cellular shades a.k.a. honeycomb shades (used in a media room).

A Power Pack Detail With Easy-To-Follow Instructions On How To Do The Initial Set Up And Have The Motorized Cellular Shades Operate Without A Glitch – And They Do.

So, there are 8 AA long-life batteries in this cylinder. How long do they last? It depends on how often the cellular shades get used. From our experience, 1- 1 ½ years of average use has been the norm.

These motorized shades are simple to operate. A single-button, hand-held remote control does the trick. By the way, the remote control itself needs AA batteries.

The cellular shades are cordless, of course. They go all the way up and down (as expected) with the option of stopping the bottom moving rail anywhere in between (to keep some view if desired).