However if you are living in a home with older treatments please check to see that they meet the new safety requirements.
Child safe window treatments.
Every smith noble window treatment meets or exceeds stringent industry and government safety guidelines.
These regulations mandate new specifications for all window treatments being sold moving forward.
Let s take a look at child safe window treatments what to avoid.
Window coverings could unwittingly contain potential dangers to your children.
Window treatment safety is taken very seriously in our industry so much so that you can request a free retrofit kit that will transform window treatments manufactured before 2001 into child safe window coverings.
In 2018 new regulations from the consumer product safety commission went into effect for all window treatments.
For homes with small children and pets there s no better way to eliminate risk than to use one of our cordless or motorized products.
The home depot offers lots of solutions in a variety of colors and textures.
Room darkening cell shades.
If possible replace any window treatments including draperies with cords manufactured before 2001.
The safer option for homes with children under 10 and pets are cordless products such as shutters cell shades or roller shades.
Budget blinds has aligned itself with the window covering manufacturers association wcma for over 15 years and continues to adhere to their criteria and safety standards by offering many options for child friendly window treatments including cordless blinds and shades with a retractable lift motorized shades with cordless operation and shutters which are inherently cordless.