How To Fix a Broken Lift Cord on Mini Blinds

Step 3

Replace the Cord

While the blind is still hung, make the task easier by studying, sketching or shooting digital photos of your blind’s lift cord pathways before you begin the repair. Since the cord splice may not pass through the small hole in the bottom bar, make it above the bar.

Open the support brackets, remove the blind and take it to a workbench for splicing the frayed section of lift cord to a new cord.

Pull on the frayed lift cord until the slats are drawn together. Cut the cord at the fray and pull the discarded piece (with the knotted end) out through the bottom bar. Splice the new cord to the old by hot-gluing the tips together and rolling them up tightly in a 3-in. long strip of plastic electrical tape.

Rehang the shade and draw the new lift cord through the cord pathway. With one hand guiding the cord splice through the slats and headbox hardware, pull on the old lift cord. When the splice is clear of the headbox, draw the new lift cord to the bottom bar, undo the splice and attach any plastic pulls on the end of the new cord.

Caution: Leave the ends of the two lift cords untied to prevent children from becoming entangled.

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