[Harry]

In our current caravan ( a 5 year old Buccaneer) we have two separate blinds on each window. One a fly screen and the other a night screen. They both pull down from the Top.

In the new Swift we have ordered they have this system where the night screen and the fly screen join together and you have one or the other covering the window. The daft thing in my opinion is that the night screen draws up from the bottom so if you wanted to just stop a bit of sun glare and cover, say, the top half of the window you cant. It?s the whole blind up over the window.

I asked if they could be reversed so the night screen came down and apparently they canr or won?t change it.

I?m sure I have seen a caravan where the night screen comes down and the fly screen goes up. When joined together.

[Road Runner]

What Swift are you getting Harry?, my new Ace (swift) still has 2 draw down screens and work really well.
Hope you find a remedy

[Harry]

I posted a thread on it .

Click Here

[Big Ron]

I have Seitz windows in my 'van with the night screens and fly screens joining together as Harry says. However, Elddis appear to have installed them the other way round as my night screens come down from the top and fly screens from the bottom.

I seem to remember from a John Wickersham article that Elddis actually install them "upside down". But to my way of thinking (and by the sounds of it Harry's too) this is a more sensible method than that Swift's.

[Dot]

I know it's a bit of hassle but, if they're the same as Ron's, maybe it'd be possible to take them of and put them back on upside down, once you get the van.

[Harry]

According to my Friendly Dealer (not the one on here) they have asked Swift if the can be changed and Swift say they cant. I thought they were just screwed on so to turn them around cant be that difficult.

[Dail]

In my experience dealers would much rather you paid them to do little tweaks after you have bought the caravan, and manufacturers don't want to spend extra production time on customising bits of things.

It might be worth looking at turning them over once you have the caravan, as Dot suggests Harry.

Dave

[klyne]

Harry

Its interesting that you asked this question as our new Eccles (Swift) obviously has the same blinds. When I saw them I thought what an excellent idea. I know what you mean about glare but I think the blinds going up, as opposed to down, offer more privacy. It will be interesting to see how they work when we have the van.

David

[SHACK]

Harry, They can be changed I have the same on the new Vanmaster and they asked me which way round we required them. The standard way I believe is Night Screens Up, Fly Screens Down.

[Doc]

Harry & David et al.

I bought some (after-market) screens for my old Swift ~10 yrs ago. They were made by Remis and were exactly as you describe, but they were symmetrical and could be fitted either way up.

I fitted them with the night/sun blind coming down and the mosquito blind going up.

While this does provide for more 'sun-blocking' in the morning, privacy is less than having the sun-blind go up from the bottom, as David mentioned.

Personally, if I were to fit them again I'd do it the 'Swift way' with the blind going up. Can't see why they can't be reversed though, if you really want to.

Ah, just seen Shack reckons you can!

[Harry]

Interesting comments. I guess we will leave then alone to start with and see how we get on with them.

The privacy bit is interesting as with our current arrangement the fly screen down on its own makes looking into the van difficult. Yet we still have the option of pulling the night screen down as well, which is fine at night when the lights are on in the van.

I reckon designing a caravan to suit evryone must be extremely difficult.

[Bush Tucker Man]

The night-screens come down (& fly-screens up) in our Crusader as well.

[Correen]

DOC

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I bought some (after-market) screens for my old Swift ~10 yrs ago.

dont suppose you remember where you bought them weve been looking for blinds and screens for our elddis and ask several times in the past but no one seems to know where to buy them without buying a caravan to go with them

Ive seen this screen mesh stuff you can buy but would prefer roller screens

any ideas?

[Friendly Dealer]

The fly/blinds can be reversed Harry - Bailey also supply them in their Senator range, we have changed them around before.

FD

[Correen]

do you sell them FD by any chance?