This little trick will probably double the life of my blind. Now that I’ve figured out how to do this, I think I could fix the next broken slat in three minutes flat. Punches come in a large variety of shapes, designs, and sizes to choose from. Customize with your favorite patterned papers. Punches add an artistic flare to your cards, scrapbooks, gifts, and so much more. I thought I might have to shave the hole more rectangular, but it turns out that the circular opening pops into the clip in the blind perfectly! Personalize your creations with fresh designs from EK Tools. I whipped out my trusty three-holer, and punched away. I realized that the original hole, though rectangular, was very close in size to the hole made by a standard hole punch. Next, how to cut it? I was afraid that a knife or a pointy scissors would leave a ragged cut.

All I did was gently fold the slat in half, and then mark with a pen on the good end, using the broken end as a template for perfect placement of the hole. It was a piece of cake to mark the right place to cut the new hole. If I could just cut the right size of hole in the unbroken end, I could turn the slat around, putting that end at the top of the window, and leaving the broken bit down at the floor where most people would probably not even see it. I realized the other end of the slat was still in perfect condition. While thinking it over, I had a brainstorm. I thought about super-gluing some more plastic to block off the hole, but I was sure that wouldn’t last. I wondered if there was any way to fix it. But I started thinking that if one had broken, others were sure to follow. My first fix was just to move one slat in from the end of the blind to fill the gap in the middle. (We Owlhavens wear things hard, especially the ever-busy little Owls.) As you can see below, the slat just ripped straight through the top of the hole. A couple weeks ago, one of the slats broke on the much-abused vertical blind over my sliding glass door.

Vertical blind hole punch home depot