[left]I moved in to a new apartment a few months ago and realized that my horizontal blinds won’t tilt. They are horizontal, vinyl, and they are cord tilt. I was looking at them the other day and after a little research I realized that there is no tilt rod connecting all the tilting mechanisms. I have been searching online for a replacement and I haven’t even seen one. I have seen tilt mechanisms, tilt wands, brackets, everything but the tilt rod itself. I don’t understand it. Is there another name for it that I should be searching for? I suppose I should go to a Home Depot or Lowe’s but I haven’t had time. Any help would be greatly appreciated.[/left]

Not sure if this belongs under windows or here but I'll start here. Hoping for some advice ... or punch some holes if that is what is needed. Anyone familiar with Andersen Narrowline windows will know they are extremely unfriendly to inside mounting of roller shades, blinds etc due to the vinyl liner across the top where the balances are and down the sides. The balancers sit about 5/8" back from the front of the frame on the top ... which does not provide enough room to mount the light filtering shades we'd like. I'm thinking of creating a mounting surface inside the top with furring strips and then installing the shades to the strips. Any reason this can't work? Thinking of using small L brackets mounted to molding L to the underneath of the vinyl liner and then mounting the strips the underneath portion and the roller shade mounts to the strips. Anything I'm missing?