Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

These are great...1 change I'd make is send eyelet screws and a better way to securely connect the blinds to the anchors as I live in a desert area and it was windy when my handyman installed the 4 blinds. He was able to see 1 blind go flying up, first on 1 side then the other and he adjusted the 'anchors' but the 1st one he put in seemed fine while he was here, so it stayed the way he installed it and this AM I saw 1 side hadn't held and then 20 minutes later that blind's other side was loose. I tied down the blind with 2 Nite Ize S-Biner Dual Spring Gate Carabiners, Stainless, 3-Pack, Sizes 2's and a very heavy outdoor metal table (on the leg) with chain and the other side has a cord tied to another heavy piece of outdoor furniture. I had the spring gate carabiners but ordered more today, along with eyelet screws for my handyman to come back to install. Keep in mind that if you live in a windy area, you will need a more secure way to keep these blinds tied down. We get strong wind with heavy gusts in the Spring every year, but like the last 2 days, it can be windy all the time and come in different directions in my residential neighborhood so the blinds need to be strongly kept in place. As to the blinds, they are incredible and VERY effective against the end-of-the-day desert sun that comes into my backyard. Amazing how lightweight the blind is and yet the sun was blocked beautifully from my living room and bedroom windows....and kept the rays of sun from my potted plants. I bought 2 of the 8 X 6 size and 2 of the 6 X 6 sizes. So, almost 1 year later, I've had the end pieces come out from the tubing (tubing is a lightweight metal but the end pieces are short plastic pieces), the plastic notch that the round ring is on has snapped on 2 ends this Spring and we've had to, once again, do some fixes by super glueing the ends into the tubing and now we are trying to just tie down the blinds with heavy duty twine on the 1 blind that had plastic ends snapped off. I wish NO plastic had been used to manufacture these blinds. Then I would not have had so much trouble, because MY fixes are working with the larger blinds (so far) and had it not been for plastic ends in he tubing that I've had to super glue into place and now try to tie down and hope the twine stays ON the tubing, I think I would have had no trouble once I devised a better way to tie them down...It's the plastic that has caused all the headaches from the beginning and this Spring. Coolaroo: PLEASE use a lightweight metal with the loop & ring and not a flimsy plastic that doesn't even go more than 1/2 inch or so into the tube ends. It just can't take even any light wind pulling at it and this could be a really phenominal item if you tested them for real use. I only put them down again about 4 weeks ago when we had near 100 degree weather, but we get Spring winds and not even having the blinds a year (bought last August), I wasn't happy that the plastic ends couldn't hold. If we have to buy again, it won't be this brand unless they start making the bottom ends with metal-ALL metal.