Ordering Tips – Curtains
STYLE
- Heading style:
Ripplefold and wave curtains – customer to provide heading tape.
- Hook type:
Pinch pleat, pleat, inverted, cartridge pleat, goblet pleat and flat panel curtains – 2074 hooks will be provided, if hook type is not specified
Scandi curtains – pin hooks will be provided, if hook type is not specified. Pin hooks will be placed 5mm from curtain top edge, unless otherwise specified.
FABRIC
- Fabric suitability:
There are pros and cons for all fabric compositions and weaves.
For assistance selecting the perfect fabric, please download our Curtains Fabric Suitability guide.
It is the customer’s responsibility to select fabric suitable for the product and design ordered. When specifying a fabric, please visit the fabric supplier’s website to confirm recommended product usage of the fabric selected. We also suggest speaking with your fabric rep about the performance expectations of the fabrics you are choosing.Please remember the inherent characteristic of the fabric will not change when the fabric is made into soft furnishing products.
BQ is always happy to sight your fabric sample and give advice on how it will behave when made up.
- Preferred fabric side:
Please ensure your preferred fabric side is mentioned on your order form, if confusion may occur. This applies to main fabrics, contrast fabrics and any lining fabrics you provide.
Lining fabrics: If providing coloured lining fabrics that may have a different colour on the face side compared to the underside, we will use the side that best colour matches the main curtain or blind fabric as the side facing into the room, if preferred fabric side is not specified. If providing lining fabrics with a shiny side, we will use the shiny side as the side facing into the room, if preferred fabric side is not specified.
- Fabric Responsibility:
Please note, BQ take no responsibility for:- fabric lost or damaged in transit
- incorrect fabric sent from fabric suppliers
- unnoticed flaws
- incorrect direction on face of fabric used, when not specified on order form
- performance of customer provided fabric, including main, contrast and lining fabrics.
QUANTITY & SIZING
- Window name:
Please provide location of window to assist with queries, package labelling and installation.
- No. of individual curtains:
If centre opening curtains, specify 2 individual curtains (or a multiple of 2 if ordering for multiple windows of same size.)
- Fabric drops or metreage:
Please specify for each individual curtain either:
(i) number of drops of fabric used per curtain (specify as a whole number or decimal) or
(ii) metreage per curtain, if using wide width fabric run continuously/railroaded (specify in mm).
Please consider the curtain fullness required.
- How measure width?:
HEADED WIDTH PER CURTAIN – The finished width of each curtain, from left side edge to right side edge, when curtain is ready to hang. Includes any gathering or pleating, curtain overlap, returns and creepage if applicable to your chosen curtain heading style.
TRACK/ROD WIDTH – The width of your straight or bent track or rod. Excludes overlap, returns and finials. Use when ordering ripplefold, wave, relaxed fold, flat panel, scandi, eyelet, rod pocket and tab top curtains.
- Finished drop/length:
The measurement from the top edge to base/bottom edge of the completed/finished curtain.
Any floor clearances or pooling/puddling must be considered and included in the drop/length provided.
- Overlap:
If providing TRACK/ROD WIDTH measurements and ordering cord drawn, centre opening curtains, please specify if curtain overlap is required.
Not applicable for ripplefold, wave, eyelet, tab top and rod pocket curtains.
- Returns:
If providing TRACK/ROD WIDTH measurements, please specify returns size (mm) if returns are required.If returns not required, please specify 0 mm.Pencil, pinch, relaxed fold, knife, gathered, flat panel and scandi curtains – BQ recommends returns are 100mm per side for single track/rod or 150mm per side for double tracks/rods.Ripplefold and wave curtains – returns not required unless special brackets ordered.Eyelet, tab top or rod pocket curtains – returns not applicable.