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Moving home · blind safety check

You’ve checked the boiler. Have you checked the blinds?

A new home often comes with blinds you didn’t choose or install. Before the furniture finds its permanent place, take a few minutes to check the cords, chains, safety devices and room layout.

Start the moving-home check
✓ Free safety resource ✓ Immediate result ✓ Practical next steps
✓ Boiler checked
✓ Stopcock found
✓ Smoke alarms checked
? Window blinds checked
Before you arrange the rooms

Check what came with the house.

Existing blinds can easily be overlooked when you move. You may not know when they were fitted, whether a safety device has been changed, or how the previous household arranged furniture around the window.

This check helps you look at what is already there before cots, beds, sofas, chairs, tables or toy storage make something easier for a young child to reach.

A newer blind is not automatically given a “safe” result. The check considers what you can actually see in the room today. It does not certify that a property or blind is safe.
Your moving-home check

Take a quick look around before you settle in.

Answer based on the blinds currently fitted in the property. If you don’t know something, choose the unsure option rather than guessing.

10 quick questions One at a time Personal result
Moving Home Blind Safety Check Follow the questions to your result
Understanding your result

It isn’t a pass or fail.

Your answers are used to highlight whether nothing obvious was identified, something deserves another look, or something should be addressed.

No issue identified

No issue identified from your answers

You haven’t identified an obvious issue during this check. As you settle into the property, keep the room layout under review — especially if furniture moves or children visit.

Worth checking

Worth checking a little more closely

One or more answers suggests something is uncertain rather than necessarily unsafe. Take another look before you finish arranging the room.

Action recommended

Action recommended

You’ve identified at least one thing that deserves attention.

If young children live in or visit the property, keep them away from the area until the issue has been addressed.

What to do next:
  • Move cots, beds and climbable furniture away from blind cords and chains where relevant.
  • Keep accessible loose cords and chains out of reach of babies and young children.
  • Don’t remove, tie together or improvise a repair to a safety device.
  • If a device is damaged, missing or unfamiliar, seek appropriate advice before relying on the blind.
The ideal time to check

Before the sofa, cot or toy box finds its permanent place.

Moving furniture later is possible. Spotting a potential climbing route before you arrange the room is easier.

Look for cords and chains

Check beside the window, behind curtains and around furniture rather than only looking at the front of the blind.

Look at fitted safety devices

If something appears loose, damaged, missing or unfamiliar, don’t alter it simply to make the blind work.

Plan around what children can climb

Sofas, chairs, tables, shelves and toy boxes can change what a young child is able to reach.

Check rooms children only visit occasionally

Spare bedrooms and rooms used by visiting grandchildren or other young children deserve the same check.

Need help with an existing blind?

If your check has raised a question, ask us.

If you are replacing existing blinds or would like to understand the safer options available for a room used by young children, Village Blinds and Shutters can advise during a free home appointment.

Book a free home appointment 0800 059 0747
Official guidance

Check anything you’re unsure about.

These independent resources provide further guidance about blind cords, safety devices and homes where babies and young children live or visit.

British Blind & Shutter Association

BBSA child-safety guidance

Guidance on existing blinds, safer operating systems and fitted safety devices.

Visit BBSA ↗ Make It Safe

Practical blind-safety advice

Guidance for checking homes where babies and young children live or regularly visit.

Visit Make It Safe ↗ Northern Ireland

NI Direct blind cord safety

Northern Ireland guidance covering cords, chains, furniture, sleeping areas and blind safety.

Visit NI Direct ↗

More child-safety resources.

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