How to Install Luminette Privacy Sheers by Hunter Douglas

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Luminette sheers are a drapery product manufactured by Hunter Douglas. The sheers allow light to filter into a room while blocking the view of the room by outsiders. The sheers are small fabric panels, or vanes. The vanes hang perpendicular to the room to allow full window viewing or swivel to block the window. A traveling wand hangs from one side to pull the vanes completely to one side of the window.

Things You'll Need

• Mounting brackets
• Drill
• Screwdriver bit
• Traveling wand
• Head rail

Instructions

1. Attach the mounting brackets to the wall or the inside of the window jamb. Screw in place with the included screws and a drill with a screwdriver bit. For large windows or sliding glass doors, place a mounting bracket every 36 inches.

2. Unwrap the traveling wand. Slide the plastic cover off the hook on one end. Place the hook on the last stem on the head rail. Slide the plastic cover over the hook and the stem. Place the wand on the bottom end of the hook and slide the plastic cover off the stem and over the hook.

3. Hook the top of the mounting groove on the back of the head rail under the upper groove on the mounting brackets. The head rail tilts upward. Pull the head rail down and the bottom portion of the mounting groove will snap into place on the mounting brackets. Tighten the locking screws at the bottom of the mounting brackets to lock the head rail in place.

4. Unwrap the fabric vanes. Unroll one vane at a time. At the top of each vane is a plastic tab with a hole called a polytab. Slide the plastic tab into the first clip on the head rail until it snaps. Unroll a second vane and repeat. Continue until you have attached all of the vanes to the head rail.

5. Snap the swivel plate into the back of the end cap. Attach the last vane to the swivel plate with the included hook and loop closure pieces.

Tips & Warnings

• To attach the sheers over a wide window frame, install extensions to the wall and attach the brackets to the extensions.

• Hunter Douglas makes plastic shims to mount the brackets on an uneven window or wall.

• For floor-to-ceiling windows, use a ladder to install the mounting brackets.

References

• Hunter Douglas: Luminette Privacy Sheer Manual
• Hunter Douglas: Luminette Privacy Sheer Manual
• Hunter Douglas Product Reference Library