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The whole-home schedule
Blinds in Fletcher, Maryland and the growth suburbs
A new build hands you every window at once, bare, and usually a rear wall of glass pointed somewhere between north-west and west. We quote these homes as one written schedule, window by window, with the heat problem solved first and a staging plan if you'd rather not do the whole house on day one.
Start where the sun does the damage
Out here the afternoon is the hard shift. The western fringe runs warmer summer afternoons than the coast, there's no sea breeze worth the name by the time it arrives, and the open-plan rear glazing catches full sun from three until dusk. So the schedule starts at the back of the house: honeycomb cells or backed blockouts on the west glass, sized snug, because that one decision changes how the whole living area feels in January. The detail lives on the heat control page.
Then the bedrooms: blockout as standard, cordless where the kids' rooms are, because a new estate is full of exactly the households the child-safety rules were written for. Fronts and wet areas can run lighter and cheaper, and the quote will show that honestly, line by line.
Stage it if you want
Plenty of families do the west glass and bedrooms first and the rest next season. Because the quote is itemised per window, staging is just choosing lines, no requote, no penalty, and the fabrics still match when you do the second half.
New-build details that matter
- Square, deep reveals are the one gift of a new build: clean reveal fits, minimal gaps, neat lines through the whole house.
- Sliding doors and big spans want verticals, panel glides or motorised rollers rather than a single heroic blind; we'll spec what the opening actually needs.
- Render and plasterboard fixings are planned at the measure, so brackets hold for years, not months.
- Builder handover timing: book the measure once keys are certain and we'll fit as soon after move-in as the making allows, with the written quote locked beforehand.