Custom Window Treatments in McCordsville, Indiana
Blinds, shades, shutters and motorized systems measured in your McCordsville home. New construction usually has drywall returns rather than casing, and that one detail decides whether an inside mount works.
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Everything below reflects what we actually tell McCordsville customers in person, including the awkward parts. Light gaps exist. Batteries run down. Dye lots drift. Knowing that before you order is the whole point.
- Services: faux wood blinds, wood blinds, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds
- Service area: McCordsville, Hancock County, IN and surrounding areas A restring, a new cord lock, a tilt mechanism or a dead motor battery gets handled far faster than a new order, because nothing has to be built. New custom work runs on the factory's two to five week clock.
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- Serving McCordsville, IN since 2008
Schedule Your Free In-Home Measure
The measure takes as long as the house needs. We take width and height at three points on every opening and use the smallest reading, check the diagonals for square, and record usable mounting depth opening by opening, because in McCordsville that number moves a long way between a 2021 Hampton Walk build and an 1890s house on Depot Street. Specialty shapes get handled separately, since the half round and elliptical transoms over the front windows in the 2000 to 2015 stock won't take a straight headrail.
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McCordsville had 1,134 residents in 2000 and 13,094 on the 1 July 2025 estimate, and the housing follows that curve exactly. Of 4,228 units, 2,651 went up between 2000 and 2019 and another 563 since 2020, so two thirds of the town is production building on cleared Vernon Township ground, with windows set into drywall returns and no applied casing at all. That one detail decides the job. There's nothing outside the opening to land a bracket on, the return corner is soft, and usable mounting depth becomes the first measurement rather than the last. Then there are the 332 houses that predate 1940, all of them on the 1865 plat around Broadway, Main, Depot and McCord Street, where nothing repeats and every opening is its own number. Same town, two completely different jobs.
Solar shade openness is the spec most worth spending a minute on. A 1% fabric blocks the most and gives you the least view. A 3% is the common compromise. A 5% keeps a good view with meaningful glare reduction, and a 10% is mostly about knocking the edge off. Darker fabrics give better outward view and worse glare control. On a bright McCordsville west wall that trade-off is the whole decision.
Humidity here runs high from late May into late September, and that's the single biggest reason we specify composite instead of hardwood in bathrooms, laundries and kitchens. Hardwood is a natural material and it moves with moisture. In a McCordsville powder room it may look fine for a year and then start to show it at the joints. Composite doesn't have that problem, and it takes paint well.
Built in the Last Few Years?
Many of our McCordsville customers moved into a house built by one of these companies. Builder blinds are usually stock sizes trimmed to fit, so if yours came with the house and never ran right, that is why. We measure the openings as built rather than off the plan.
Named for identification only. McCordsville Window Treatments is an independent company and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting as a representative of any homebuilder listed.
What Matters at the Window in McCordsville
What our crew has learned working in McCordsville homes.
About McCordsville Homes
McCordsville's median house dates to 2009. Build era shares on the parcel record run pre-1940 7.9%, 1940-1979 6.6%, 1980-1999 9.6%, 2000-2019 62.7%, 2020+ 13.3%. Median home value is $345,400. Two thirds of the stock is 2000 or newer, which in central Indiana production building means vinyl or vinyl clad windows set in drywall return openings with no applied casing at all. Inside mount depth is usually adequate but the return edge is fragile and there is nothing to screw a bracket into outside the jamb. two story production traditional; modern farmhouse; Craftsman influenced elevations with gable brackets and shake accents; brick and vinyl transitional; single story ranch and villa product in the newer age targeted sections; attached townhome Typical opening count: 18-28 openings for the dominant 2,200-3,200 sq ft two story production house, counting basement egress and the stair/foyer glass; 10-16 for the ranch and villa product; 12-20 for a house in the 1865 village plat once basement sash are.
Where We Work in McCordsville
We cover homeowners across McCordsville near Geist Reservoir, McCord Square town center, Hancock Wellness Center, Mt. Comfort Road Trail, McCordsville Sports Park, Town Hall Community Park.
Surrounding Areas We Serve
Our crew also covers Original McCordsville, McCord Square, Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East, Villages at Brookside, Deer Crossing and Springs at Deer Crossing, Gateway Crossing, Hampton Walk and The Townes at Hampton Walk, Highland Springs, Emerald Springs, Geist Woods Estates.
Recent Weather Patterns
Central Indiana sits in IECC climate zone 5A, which means a real cooling load and a real heating load on the same window. NOAA's 1991-2020 normals for Indianapolis put the July average high at 85.2F, the January average high at 36.1F and the January average low at 20.9F, with the muggy season running May 25 to September 22. Almost none of consequence. Two thirds of the town's housing was built after 2000 on cleared Vernon Township farm ground, and 13.3% is 2020 or newer, so street trees in most subdivisions are fifteen years old at best and give no useful summer shading to a first floor window.
What Our Crew Sees in McCordsville
Two story foyer glass and half round or elliptical transoms over front facing windows are common in the 2000-2015 stock. Post-2018 product tends to swap the arch for a stacked rectangular transom and a wider fixed unit. Bay and box windows appear in the 1990s sections. Active new construction includes Hampton Walk, The Townes at Hampton Walk, McCord Square (apartments delivered, townhouses and roughly 500-600 single family homes planned).
Who Actually Turns Up in McCordsville
The same people measure, order and install. Customers name them in reviews, which is the point: you are not getting a subcontractor you have never heard of.
What We Are Running in McCordsville Right Now
Both offers apply to work quoted and ordered while they are posted here. Ask about them at the in-home measure and we will put the discount on the written quote before you decide anything.
$500 Off Your First Exterior Screen, Plus a Free Motorization Upgrade
Take $500 off your first exterior screen and we will add the motorization upgrade at no charge. Exterior screens stop solar heat outside the glass, which is the only place you can stop it before it is already in the room, and a motor is the difference between using one and forgetting it.
Applies to a first exterior screen. Ask at the measure so the discount is on the written quote before you order. Motorized product runs on batteries that need replacing, about a year on Hunter Douglas PowerView.
Ask about this offerFree Motorization Upgrade on Select Interior Shades
Pick from the qualifying interior shade lines and the motorization upgrade is free. It is worth most on the openings you would otherwise leave alone: tall great room glass, anything above a stair, and the west windows nobody remembers to close by four.
Select interior shade lines only. We will tell you at the measure which of your openings qualify. Batteries are a real running cost and are not included.
Ask about this offerPayment Options That Work for You
A window covering project is worth doing right the first time. Financing options through McCordsville Window Treatments lender partners help you pay over time instead of cutting scope or delaying the work.
Start the work now and begin paying later. On a whole-house order this is how people phase a large job without phasing the install.
- Payments deferred for a promotional period
- Rate and period set by the lender
- Quoted price held for the order
Divide the project cost into equal monthly payments across a fixed promotional period, so the budget is predictable from day one.
- Equal monthly payments
- Fixed promotional period
- Simple, predictable budgeting
Spread a larger window treatment project across a longer term with fixed equal payments, for homeowners who want the lowest monthly amount.
- Extended terms available
- Fixed equal payments
- Suited to larger window treatment projects
Financing is arranged through third party lenders and is subject to credit approval. Rates, terms, and promotional periods are set by the lender and disclosed to you in writing before you sign. Ask your project lead which programs are open right now.
Window Treatment Services for McCordsville Homes
From one room to a whole house, McCordsville Window Treatments measures every opening, orders it custom, and installs it with the same crew that took the measurements.
Faux Wood Blinds in McCordsville
Motorizing faux wood is possible and usually unnecessary. Heavy slats make a motor work harder, and battery life on motorized product is roughly a year by Hunter Douglas's own PowerView figure. On a reachable McCordsville window, a wand costs nothing to own and doesn't need charging.
Learn moreWood Blinds in McCordsville
McCordsville Window Treatments is insured and bonded, and every residential job over $150 in Indiana falls under the Home Improvement Contract Act at IC 24-5-11, which requires a written contract with a real scope and a total price. Your McCordsville order gets one before anything's fabricated.
Learn moreVertical Blinds in McCordsville
A wand-operated vertical takes the loop out of the room, which matters where children play near a McCordsville patio door. Products we hang conform to ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2022, and inner-cord non-compliance isn't a small thing: it's a substantial product hazard under 16 CFR 1120.3.
Learn moreAluminum Mini Blinds in McCordsville
This is the least expensive custom product we'll hang. Nationally, stock shades run about $60 to $600 per window while custom treatments start around $250, and an aluminum mini blind built to your McCordsville opening sits near the bottom of that custom band.
Learn moreRoller Shades in McCordsville
A motorized roller is the easiest automation in the house, and the batteries are the part nobody's quoting. Hunter Douglas states about a year on PowerView. Multiply that across a McCordsville great room and decide now whether hardwired power is worth planning around.
Learn moreSolar Shades in McCordsville
Two to five weeks is the normal build. Screen fabrics come from dye lots like anything else, and charcoal in particular varies. Adding one shade to a McCordsville bank of windows a year later shows up in raking afternoon light, which is exactly when you're using them.
Learn moreCellular Shades in McCordsville
McCordsville Window Treatments is insured and bonded and puts every McCordsville job on paper. Indiana's Home Improvement Contract Act at IC 24-5-11 requires a written contract over $150, and yours names the cell count and the fabric beside the price. That protects you more than it protects us.
Learn moreZebra Shades in McCordsville
Two to five weeks from approval. Because the sheer and solid bands get dyed together, a lot change moves both, and a replacement shade for one McCordsville window a year later won't read as a match beside its neighbor even under the same name.
Learn moreRoman Shades in McCordsville
Finished length has to account for the stack and for how the fabric hangs after a week. We measure the McCordsville opening three ways and then decide the mount height, because the same shade at the same size doesn't look the same inside the frame as it does above it.
Learn moreWoven Wood Shades in McCordsville
Natural fiber takes on moisture, and central Indiana stays muggy from late May into late September. A woven wood in a McCordsville sunroom expands slightly through the summer and settles back in winter. Sized correctly it doesn't bind, which is why we size for the movement.
Learn moreBlackout Shades in McCordsville
Blackout fabric costs more than light filtering in the same line, and channels or a light-blocking pocket add real money on top. On a McCordsville bedroom it's usually the mount that costs more, not the fabric. Custom treatments nationally run about $250 to $2,600 per window.
Learn morePlantation Shutters in McCordsville
If you want the window to disappear, don't buy shutters. They're furniture and they're meant to be seen. A McCordsville room where the goal is uninterrupted glass and a soft view wants a roller or a solar shade, and we'd rather point you there.
Learn moreCafe Shutters in McCordsville
Short panels and real hinges, with a tilt that has to work one-handed while you're standing at a sink. Because the panels are small, the hardware carries proportionally more of the look, and a hidden tilt inside the stile is worth the upgrade on a McCordsville bath.
Learn moreMotorized Shades in McCordsville
Motors go in at the factory, not in your living room, so the order can't be edited on install day. Custom lead time runs two to five weeks, and a McCordsville job that changes fabric after the order releases starts that clock over.
Learn moreCustom Drapery in McCordsville
Layering solves the problem one treatment can't. A sheer or a solar shade handles daytime glare while the McCordsville street keeps its distance, and the drapery panels stay decorative until dark, when they close and do the privacy work. Two products, two jobs.
Learn moreValances & Top Treatments in McCordsville
Board-mounted and rod-mounted valances don't behave alike. A board gives you a hard flat top and a defined return, while a rod-pocket valance gathers and moves, so a McCordsville window that needs a crisp architectural line gets the board and a softer room can take the rod.
Learn moreExterior Solar Shades in McCordsville
There are two very different jobs here. Enclosing a McCordsville porch bay means a large shade on tracks that lives outdoors permanently, while shading a single west window means a narrow unit that mostly stays retracted. The hardware and the price aren't comparable.
Learn moreRetractable Awnings in McCordsville
The lateral arms are spring-loaded and they hold the fabric under tension, which is what keeps a McCordsville awning flat instead of flapping. That tension also means the arms are the part to keep clean and unobstructed, since anything binding a joint puts the load somewhere it doesn't belong.
Learn moreCommercial Window Treatments in McCordsville
Volume pricing is real, and it isn't a percentage off a residential number. A repeated spec across many identical openings fabricates efficiently, and a McCordsville project with four window sizes prices very differently from one with forty. Standardizing the spec early is where the savings actually live.
Learn moreSkylight Shades in McCordsville
Cost on overhead work climbs for reasons that have nothing to do with fabric. The motor, the tensioned track, a shape that isn't rectangular and the access needed to install it all add up, so a McCordsville skylight quote sits well above a wall window of the same square area.
Learn moreSliding Glass Door Blinds in McCordsville
Cleaning a door treatment means dealing with hands and noses. Vinyl vanes on a McCordsville slider wipe down, fabric vanes need a brush and patience, and a woven or textured panel is the hardest of the three to bring back once a dog's leaned on it.
Learn morePanel Track Blinds in McCordsville
The track and carriers are what wear out, and it isn't the fabric. On a McCordsville opening operated several times a day, the glide quality you feel at install is the thing to judge, because a cheap carrier gets sticky long before a panel looks tired.
Learn moreSheer Shades in McCordsville
These are made to order, so two to five weeks is the expectation and none of that's negotiable. A McCordsville order also needs the vane size and the mount type locked before release, since both are built into the shade rather than adjusted afterward.
Learn morePleated Shades in McCordsville
Standard pleated shades are lifted by cords passing through the fabric, and those holes let pinpoints of light through when the shade is down. In a bright McCordsville bedroom you'll see them at sunrise, which is why a cordless design or a cellular alternative gets recommended there.
Learn moreBamboo Shades in McCordsville
The edge binding is worth a conversation, and it's usually skipped. A bound edge in cloth tape gives a woven shade a finished line and keeps the weave from fraying, and on a McCordsville window with painted casing that binding is what makes the shade look made rather than cut.
Learn moreDual Shades in McCordsville
After dark the arithmetic flips. Lights on inside a McCordsville room and the sheer bands read as translucent from outside even when they're offset, so a window that faces a sidewalk wants the blackout tier of this fabric or a second layer behind it.
Learn moreTop-Down Bottom-Up Shades in McCordsville
Cordless top-down bottom-up removes every loop from the window, which is the right specification in a McCordsville house with small kids. Inner-cord non-compliance is a substantial product hazard under 16 CFR 1120.3, and this configuration didn't always come cordless.
Learn moreCordless Blinds in McCordsville
A cordless blind is a mechanism, and mechanisms have a cycle count behind them. Raised and lowered twice a day, a McCordsville family room blind sees a few thousand cycles before anything feels different, and that's why slat material and headrail quality matter more here than the pretty part of the catalog.
Learn moreHardwood Shutters in McCordsville
Install is fitting work, and it isn't carpentry. Frames go in first and get shimmed plumb, then panels hang and get checked for an even reveal down the meeting stiles. A McCordsville whole-house set takes longer than blinds because every panel is adjusted individually, and rushing that always shows.
Learn moreComposite Shutters in McCordsville
Depth is the first thing we'll check. A shutter frame needs real mounting depth behind the trim for an inside mount, and where a McCordsville opening comes up short, the answer is a build-out frame carrying the panel forward. It works well and it changes the profile, so you should see it first.
Learn moreSmart Home Shade Integration in McCordsville
A hardwired system avoids batteries entirely, and it's the right call during construction or a full remodel when the walls are open. Retrofitting power into a finished McCordsville house is a different project, so most existing homes end up on rechargeable batteries with a charging plan.
Learn moreBlind Repair & Restring in McCordsville
There's a point where repair stops making sense. If the slats are cupped, the valance is broken and the rail is bent on the same McCordsville blind, you're rebuilding around a treatment that's already worn out. We'd rather price the replacement honestly than take three small fees.
Learn moreShutter Repair in McCordsville
Magnets and catches are the cheapest fix on the list. When panels won't stay shut, it's usually a catch that's lost its grip or shifted out of alignment rather than a warped panel. On a McCordsville service call that's often ten minutes and a couple of small parts.
Learn moreMotorization Retrofit in McCordsville
Travel limits have to be set at the shade, and they aren't guesswork. The motor learns a top stop and a bottom stop, and getting the bottom right on an out-of-square McCordsville opening takes a few passes so the hembar sits parallel to the sill rather than to the headrail.
Learn moreOutdoor Patio Shades in McCordsville
Restaurants and clubs run these hard. A McCordsville patio operating seven days needs commercial-grade drives, a control scheme staff can use when they haven't read a manual, and a maintenance schedule, because a shade cycled twice a day sees more use in one season than a home shade sees in five years.
Learn moreOffice Window Treatments in McCordsville
Commercial work isn't covered by the Indiana Home Improvement Contract Act, which applies to residential jobs. A McCordsville office project runs on a purchase order or a contract with a written scope instead, and since Indiana licenses nobody in this trade, our insurance and bonding are what stand behind it.
Learn moreHealthcare Window Treatments in McCordsville
Energy performance is a product attribute and should be cited that way. DOE and ORNL testing found cellular shades saved up to 20 percent heating energy against a bare window, which is relevant on a McCordsville facility with a large perimeter and rooms people can't simply leave.
Learn moreMultifamily Window Treatments in McCordsville
Submittals still apply on new construction. A McCordsville general contractor should expect product data, fabric samples, bracket details and flame propagation test documentation where the occupancy requires it, reviewed and approved before fabrication rather than assembled after the first delivery's already on site.
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Local Expertise, Real Results
In a town where 62.7 percent of the houses were built between 2000 and 2019, the openings are square and the mounting depth is the variable. We measure the depth of the drywall return before anyone opens a fabric book, because that number decides inside mount against outside mount and the fabric never does.
Based in central Indiana and serving McCordsville and Hancock County, McCordsville Window Treatments sells and installs custom blinds, shades, interior shutters, drapery and motorized window treatments. We work by appointment at your house because the windows are there and the decisions can't honestly be made anywhere else. Mounting depth, square and obstruction are things you confirm at the opening or you guess at.
We work McCordsville the way its build record actually reads. The ACS puts 1,223 units in the 2000s and 1,428 in the 2010s, which means whole streets in Villages at Brookside and Deer Crossing carry the same elevation and the same window schedule. Measure one plan carefully and you've effectively measured twenty houses. That cuts both ways, because a mistake repeats just as fast, so we still run a three point measure on every opening instead of copying a number across a street. At the other end of town, the 1865 plat holds effectively all 332 of McCordsville's pre-1940 houses, with wood jambs, narrow wood casing and storm window build ups that quietly eat the depth. One block there can hold an 1890s frame house next to a 1960s ranch next to a 2015 infill build.
McCordsville is 84.7 percent owner occupied, median household income is $110,692, and 57.8 percent of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, so the questions we get here are technical ones. People ask about openness factor before they ask about color. They want to know what stack height does to the top of a two story foyer window, and whether motorizing a 22 opening house means changing batteries on all of it once a year. Hunter Douglas puts PowerView battery life at about one year, and we'd rather say that at the measure than let you discover it in a stairwell. Custom fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks after the order goes in. Nothing in this trade needs to happen overnight, and we won't pretend otherwise to move an order along.
Our Promise
We'll run a three point measure and a square check on every opening, write down the mounting depth we found, and tell you where an inside mount will leave a light gap before you spend anything. Indiana requires a written contract on residential work over $150 under IC 24-5-11, and yours carries the scope and the total price rather than a range. We're insured and insured.
Why McCordsville Homes Need Their Own Numbers
Serving McCordsville and Hancock County with quality materials, thorough inspections, and transparent pricing.
We measure the return, not the catalog
Two thirds of McCordsville is 2000 or newer, which in central Indiana production building means the drywall wraps into the opening and stops. There's no applied casing to take an outside mount bracket, and the return corner crumbles if you crowd it. In Hampton Walk, where Fischer Homes is currently selling plans from 1,247 to 4,204 square feet, we put a tape on the actual depth at every opening before we quote, because a shallow return changes the headrail and not just the price.
West water glass gets its own product
The rear elevations on W Nautica Blvd, Bayfront Shores, Anchormark Dr and Schooner Cir were built to look north west across Geist Reservoir, and that's the hardest light in Hancock County: low and late, with reflection off the water doubling it at exactly the hours people sit in the room. A solar shade at 3 percent openness holds most of the view and knocks the glare down. A 10 percent keeps more view and gives back more glare. We show you both on your own glass before you choose.
The old plat gets measured twice
McCordsville records 332 housing units built before 1940 and they sit in one place, the 1865 plat on Broadway, Main, Depot and McCord Street. A hundred and sixty years of settling on Hancock County clay means no two openings agree. We take width and height at three points, use the smallest reading, and note the storm window build up where it steals inside mount depth. There's no HOA and no historic district on those blocks, so nothing limits your choice except the opening itself.
You hear about the light gap first
Every inside mount leaves a gap at the edge. Lutron publishes 3/4 inch per side on its Roller 20/64 and a standard factory deduction of 1/16 inch per side, and anything over 120 inches tall or past a 4:1 height to width ratio gets a wider gap than that. It matters in the two story foyer glass the 2000 to 2015 McCordsville stock is full of. If a bedroom in Villages at Brookside has to go genuinely dark, that means a side channel or an outside mount, and we say so before the order.
Real Jobs. Real Results.
Photos from recent window treatment projects completed by the crew that measured them across McCordsville and Hancock County. Every project is documented with photos and a written closeout package.
Step by Step Through a McCordsville Order
Four steps and nothing hidden in the middle of them. Custom fabrication runs 2 to 5 weeks after you approve the order, which is the honest number for this trade and the reason nothing here gets sold as urgent. Indiana's Home Improvement Contract Act, IC 24-5-11, requires a written contract on residential work over $150, so the scope and the total price are on paper with the dates before anything is cut. We're insured and insured. Indiana issues no state credential for window treatments, so be careful of anyone in Hancock County who claims one.
Measure in your openings
We come to the house with a tape and a level. Three points on width and height, smallest reading wins, diagonals checked for square, and a recorded mounting depth for every opening. In a Villages at Brookside two story that's 18 to 26 openings. On the 1865 plat it's 12 to 20 and none of them match. You keep the written numbers whether or not you order anything from us.
Product and written quote
Then we sit down with what the measure found. Openness factor, roll direction, light filtering against blackout, and whether the half round transom in your 2000s foyer takes a fixed panel or stays bare. Every price we show you is the national range for that product family. No Indianapolis installed pricing is published anywhere, so a local average quoted at you as fact was invented by whoever said it.
Order and fabrication
The order goes out with finished width and finished height, the factory deduction applied, and the dye lot recorded. That last one matters. If you add two openings in Deer Crossing next spring, a fresh run of the same fabric can read slightly different in the same room, and we'd rather tell you that before you order than after it hangs. Lead time is 2 to 5 weeks.
Install and adjust
We hang it, level it, set travel limits and pair anything motorized, then run every unit through full travel while we're still standing in the room. Brackets go into wood framing or into the jamb, never into the bare drywall return corner that two thirds of McCordsville was built with. Packaging leaves with us. If a light gap reads worse in your room than it did on paper, that's a conversation we want on install day.
What we see most often on McCordsville window treatments
McCordsville homeowners typically call us about these scenarios.
Fading On One Side Of A Bay
The west-facing panel of a bay in a McCordsville house has aged faster than its neighbors and now the three shades no longer match. Sun exposure is cumulative and uneven, so this is normal rather than defective. Ordering a spare panel with the original job is the cheap safeguard nobody thinks of.
A Baby Arriving In Three Months
Parents want the nursery dark and they want the cords gone. Both are solvable and neither is automatic. ANSI/WCMA A100.1-2022 pushed the market toward cordless and inaccessible-cord designs, and genuine darkness in a McCordsville bedroom needs edge management rather than just a blackout fabric on an inside mount. We would rather have that conversation before the nursery gets painted.
Sun Damage On The South Side
A hardwood floor with a pale patch where the rug sits, a leather sofa going lighter on one arm, a piano the owner is worried about. Ultraviolet is only 40 to 60 percent of the cause so nothing hanging in the opening prevents it, but a solar shade or a lined drapery slows it noticeably on the openings that matter.
Storefront Glare On The Square
A shop or an office facing the afternoon sun on the McCordsville square, with merchandise fading in the display and staff squinting at screens. Commercial fabrics with a flame rating and hardware that survives constant use are a different specification from a living room, and getting a residential product sold into that space means replacing it far too soon.
An Awning That Has Given Up
The frame is straight but the fabric is faded, stretched and torn at one edge after years of central Indiana weather. Recovering it on the existing structure is usually far cheaper than starting again, and a lot of people do not know that is an option until somebody tells them.
Vertical Vanes Snapping Off The Slider
The patio door treatment has lost three vanes, the carrier stems are broken and the whole thing clacks every time the door opens. On a door used daily, that's a product reaching the end of its life. Vertical cellular or panel track glides are the usual upgrades and both stack clear of the handle.
Five Stages, In This Order
Custom window treatments are made to your openings, so the order matters more than it does in most trades. This is how every McCordsville job runs.
Free In-Home Measure
Every opening gets three widths, three heights and a diagonal square check, because houses settle and an opening that is out of square is the difference between a shade that runs true and one that binds. Mounting depth gets read at the jamb. It all goes on paper before any product conversation starts.
Product and Fabric, In Your Own Light
Samples get looked at in the room they are going in, not under showroom lighting. This is where openness factor, inside versus outside mount, roll direction and material get decided, and where we tell you the light gap you are going to live with.
Written Scope and Contract
Opening by opening, with the mount type, the light gap, the operation and the total price in writing. Indiana requires a written contract on residential work over $150 under IC 24-5-11, and we would write one anyway.
Custom Fabrication
Your sizes go to the workroom. Two to five weeks is typical depending on product and finish, longer on specialty shapes and motorized configurations. You get the real date at the measure rather than a range.
Install and Walkthrough
Brackets anchored for the substrate they are going into, everything checked level and square, motor travel limits set and scenes built with you standing there. Then we show you how it all works and take the packaging with us.
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Questions About Working in Older McCordsville Houses
Straight answers to the questions McCordsville homeowners ask most.
Indiana Weather Affects Window Treatments Year Round
Indiana sees some of the most varied weather in the country. McCordsville homeowners live in IECC climate zone 5A, which carries a real cooling load in summer and a real heating load in winter. July averages a high near 85F, January averages a high near 36F with lows near 21F, and the muggy season runs from late May into late September. That is why the same window can be the hottest room in the house in July and the coldest in January.
Winter runs on the same shade
January in central Indiana averages a 36.1F high and a 20.9F low, and the 563 McCordsville houses built since 2020 carry large fixed units and sliding glass door walls that give heat back all night. DOE and Oak Ridge testing recorded cellular shades saving up to 20 percent of heating energy and up to 15 percent of total heating and cooling against a bare window. That's a product result rather than a dollar promise, and no federal energy label covers shades or blinds at all.
Muggy season moves hardwood
The muggy stretch runs 25 May to 22 September, and hardwood moves with it. Over a kitchen sink, in a bath, or on a Geist side rear opening where the door wall gets left open, hardwood louvers cup and hardwood slats twist. Composite shutters and faux wood blinds don't. In a 2,200 to 3,200 square foot McCordsville two story we'll normally put hardwood in the dry front rooms and composite anywhere water reaches, and say which is which on the quote.
Late sun off the reservoir
Geist Reservoir is legally in Marion, Hamilton and Hancock counties, and McCordsville's frontage is the Hancock County side. On the nautical named streets in the north west corner, rear elevations were designed for the view, so late sun arrives low and doubled by reflection. NFRC attributes 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to UV, so a solar shade at 1 or 3 percent openness slows fading on floors and furniture. It doesn't prevent it. Anyone who tells you a shade stops fade is selling.
Farm edge lots have no shade
Around Stone Grove, Golden Grove, Alexander Ridge and the Ricks Drive streets on the east side, lots sit on the section grid and back onto open agricultural ground. Nothing is built on the far side and there's no tree line to interrupt a long low angle exposure, summer afternoon or winter morning. Those rear elevations usually want two layers: a solar shade for the glare hours with a cellular behind it for the 20.9F nights. One product rarely covers both jobs on that exposure.
Choosing the Right Treatment for McCordsville Rooms
An honest breakdown of the three we specify most often, and when each one is the right answer.
The one product in this trade with measured energy numbers behind it. Trapped air in the cells does the work, and DOE and ORNL testing found cellular shades saved up to 20 percent on heating energy and up to 15 percent on total heating and cooling against a bare window. In a McCordsville house that matters in January and again in July, which is unusual for one product. Single cell suits most rooms, double cell where the glass is large or the room runs cold. Top-down bottom-up gets you daylight and privacy at the same time.
What you reach for when the complaint is afternoon sun. Solar fabrics come in stated openness factors, and that number is the whole decision: a lower openness cuts more glare and more of the view, a higher one keeps the view and cuts less. On a west or south McCordsville window this is usually the honest answer rather than blackout, because blackout kills the room. Cassette or fascia hides the roll, and roll direction gets decided at the measure so the fabric does not foul a crank or a lock.
The one that stays with the house. Shutters are a finish rather than a covering, and they do not get replaced every few years. In McCordsville the material choice is technical rather than a matter of taste: composite and poly in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms and sunrooms, because a four month humid season followed by a dry heated winter will move real hardwood, and hardwood only where the room stays conditioned. Louver size, frame style and divider rail get decided standing at your window.
See What Each Fabric Does To The Light
Pick a fabric below and the window updates. It's a drawing rather than a photograph, so read it as a rough guide to what each family does in a McCordsville room, and to what it doesn't do.
Openness factor is a measured fabric spec, so you can compare it line to line. The category names are not measured. One maker's room darkening can behave like another maker's light filtering, which is why the sample books come to the measure and get opened in the room they're going in, at the hour that room has the problem.
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Window Treatment Systems Compared in McCordsville
Quick reference for the products we specify most often in these homes. Pricing reflects typical McCordsville installations.
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