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If you live in this area of McCordsville, some of these answers will sound familiar. Older openings, shallower depth and out-of-square conditions come up regularly and none of them are a problem once they're measured.

  • Services: faux wood blinds, wood blinds, vertical blinds, aluminum mini blinds
  • Service area: Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East, McCordsville, IN and surrounding areas
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About Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Local Window Treatment Experience in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Geist Reservoir is legally in three counties, and almost every subdivision people picture when they hear the name sits in Fishers or Indianapolis. Bay Creek doesn't. W Nautica Blvd is recorded in the Indiana statewide parcel layer with a tax district of MCCORDSVILLE CIVIL TOWN, which is how you tell this pocket apart from the visually identical Geist streets a mile west. For window work the county line matters less than the compass. The glass here was built to look at the water, the water lies north and west, and west facing water glass is the most demanding exposure in Hancock County.</p><p style="font-size:16px;color:#4a5a6a;line-height:1.75;margin:16px 0 0">Expect 20 to 30 openings in a Bay Creek house, higher than the 18 to 28 town norm for a production two story, because the rear elevation on a view lot was deliberately opened up. Add walk out or daylight basements on the sloping water side lots and the count climbs again. These houses are twenty to thirty years old on Hancock County clay with basements under them, so they measure close to square but not automatically square, and the wide rear openings are exactly where movement shows first. A three point measure on the great room glass and on the door wall is not optional here.

We have served Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East homeowners through the full range of window treatment needs, from inspections and repairs to full replacements. Whatever the system, our McCordsville crew approaches every project with clear communication and respect for your property.

The Housing Here

Bay Creek housing: two story traditional built around a water view

No builder, lot size or home count is published for either Bay Creek plat. Hancock County exposes no queryable year built field, the state parcel layer carries no subdivision name for this county, and the plat boundary itself was not retrievable, so we don't quote a number we can't stand behind. What is sourced is the street set and the tax district. What is inferable with reasonable confidence is the era: the plats sit inside the town's 1990s and 2000s wave, and the ACS records 342 McCordsville units from 1990 to 1999 and 1,223 from 2000 to 2009. The elevations are two story traditional with walk out or daylight basements on the sloping water side lots.

The geometry is the part worth understanding before anyone quotes a fabric. On a Bay Creek water lot the ground falls away toward the reservoir, so the rear of the house presents two full stories of living space to the view, often with a deck at main floor level and a walk out below it. That is a fundamentally different elevation from Villages at Brookside a couple of miles southeast, where a subdivision interior lot gets standard rectangular openings and no view to open up. It also means one house can hold three separate light problems on the same wall: an upper floor bedroom, a main floor great room and a lower level room looking straight out at the water line.

Built
Not individually sourced. Sits in the town's 1990s to 2000s ring, which the ACS records as 342 McCordsville units built 1990-1999 and 1,223 built 2000-2009.
Homes
Not published. The plat boundary was not retrievable and Hancock County exposes no queryable parcel record, so home count and lot size are established on site rather than quoted.
Typical size
Not published. Window count runs 20 to 30 openings on a water oriented plan, above the 18 to 28 typical for a McCordsville production two story, because the rear elevation was glazed for the view.
Styles
Two story traditional with walk out or daylight basements on the sloping water side lots; brick front transitional elevations
What It Means For Your Windows

West water glass: the hardest light condition in McCordsville

Geist lies north and west of this corner, so the glass built for the view faces broadly west and northwest across open water. That light is low, it's late, it's doubled by reflection off the surface, and it arrives at the hours people are actually sitting in the room. A north facing room of the same size never sees the heat load, and no amount of good fabric changes the physics. It produces glare on screens in the great room, fading on floors and furniture, and a July afternoon load in a town where the Indianapolis average July high is 85.2F. Openness factor is the lever, and on this exposure the choice between 3 percent and 5 percent is a real decision rather than a preference.

Depth and squareness are the second layer. These are 1990s and 2000s clad units set in drywall return openings with no applied casing, so an inside mount usually clears, but there is nothing outside the jamb line to land a bracket on. Twenty to thirty years on clay with a basement below is enough movement to matter on a wide opening: the door wall and the stacked great room units are where a three point measure earns its keep, because a 1/16 inch per side factory deduction against an opening that has racked 1/4 inch will show as a wedge of daylight down one side. Transoms above the rear sliding doors add a second head height to work around.

Choosing 3 percent against 5 percent on the water side

On W Nautica Blvd a 5 percent openness fabric keeps more of the reservoir view and lets more glare through with it. A 3 percent cuts the glare meaningfully and still shows you the water as a soft image. A 1 percent kills the view. Reflected low sun off the water pushes most Bay Creek great rooms to 3 percent, and bedrooms to a separate room darkening product entirely, because no solar fabric darkens a room.

Wide rear openings and the three point check

The widest opening in the house is where twenty to thirty years of movement shows first, and on a Bay Creek water elevation that is the great room glass or the door wall. We take three width readings and three height readings on every wide unit rather than measuring the top and calling it done. Where the readings disagree by more than an eighth, we say so and adjust the mount type before anything is fabricated.

Two story stacked glass and motor batteries

Stacked great room units on the water elevation can't be reached from the floor, which is the honest argument for motorization. Here's the cost nobody mentions: Hunter Douglas states PowerView battery life at about one year. On six or eight high units that's a recurring job. Where a hardwired feed or a trickle charge option is reachable, we take it. Travel limits get set at commissioning so the fabric stops level across a wall of units.

Roll direction, fascia and the sliding door wall

A roller over the rear sliding door on a Bayfront Shores deck elevation needs the fabric clear of the handle, which usually means a reverse roll hanging off the front of the tube. Reverse roll is not compatible with a fascia, so you choose between the clean cover and the clearance. On a wide door wall you also need a heavier tube and a center support bracket to stop deflection. We tell you which combination you're buying before the order goes in.

What We Specify Here

What we specify on the Geist side of McCordsville

Bay Creek is the one place in town where the exposure decides the product before the budget does. On a Brookside interior lot the orientation varies house to house and a single good all round fabric covers most of a house. On Bayfront Shores or Anchor Bay Ct the west and northwest water glass sets the specification for the whole rear elevation, and the front and side windows can then be handled more simply and more cheaply. An association is recorded for these plats, but its name, its architectural review process and any rule about street facing covering color were not retrievable, so treat that as unknown rather than absent and check your own recorded covenant before committing to an exterior facing color. We put scope and total price in writing under IC 24-5-11 and we're insured and insured.

Motorized solar roller shades, 3 percent openness

This is the core specification for a great room facing Geist. A 3 percent fabric holds the reservoir view while cutting the reflected afternoon glare, and motorization is what makes stacked units usable at all. Add a sun sensor or an astronomical timer so the shades drop before the glare arrives rather than after someone notices it. Budget for battery replacement at roughly annual intervals unless a hardwired feed is reachable.

Panel track blinds for the rear sliding door wall

Panel track slides sideways and parks off the opening, so a door wall onto a Bay Creek deck reads full width when it's open, which a roller over the same door never does. It also sidesteps the reverse roll versus fascia problem entirely. Specify the same fabric family as the great room rollers so the rear elevation reads as one decision from the deck looking back in.

Room darkening cellular shades with side channels

Bedrooms on a west water elevation are a different job from the great room. A solar fabric will not darken them, and an inside mount shade leaves the 3/4 inch per side light gap Lutron publishes, which on a west wall in July is a bright stripe at 7pm. Side channels and a light blocking pocket close that down. Cellular also carries the DOE and ORNL result of up to 20 percent heating energy saved against bare glass.

Exterior solar shades over the deck

Stopping the low sun outside the glass beats fighting it inside, and a Bay Creek deck facing the water is one of the few places in McCordsville where that's worth the money. An exterior shade cuts the heat before it reaches the room and makes the deck usable at the hour it's currently unusable. National installed pricing for exterior awning and shade product runs $1,000 to $6,000, so it's a considered purchase, not an add on.

Getting Around

Around Bay Creek and the Hancock County side of Geist

This is the town's northwest corner, bounded by the Hamilton County line with Fishers immediately beyond it, and residents cross Olio Road for Fishers retail in minutes. The distinction that matters on paper is that a McCordsville Geist address is a Hancock County address: Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation rather than Hamilton Southeastern, and Hancock County tax rates rather than Hamilton's. Children here attend McCordsville Elementary, then Mt. Vernon Middle School and Mt. Vernon High School. The street names are the local shorthand, and they're specific enough that giving one is usually enough to place a house: Schooner Cir, Coral Reef Rd, Shorevista Dr, Stormy Port.

Streets we work on
W Nautica BlvdBayfront ShoresBayside CirBay Pointe CirBay Port CirBay Run CtAnchor Bay CtAnchormark DrSchooner CirMariner CtCoral Reef RdWaterfront WayShorevista DrTreasure PointeStormy Port
Around the neighborhood
Geist ReservoirOlio Roadthe Hamilton County line and Fishers immediately to the northwest
Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation
McCordsville ElementaryMt. Vernon Middle SchoolMt. Vernon High School
Services

Window Treatment Services in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Every service McCordsville Window Treatments offers across McCordsville is available to Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East homeowners.

Faux Wood Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Composite slats for the rooms where real wood fails

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Wood Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Basswood where the casing is real and the room is dry

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Vertical Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Door walls handled without losing half your slider

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Aluminum Mini Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

The cheap right answer for basements, utility rooms and rentals

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Roller Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Flat fabric on a tube, with the light gap disclosed first

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Solar Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Glare control where the town has no shade to spare

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Cellular Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Honeycomb cells for a climate with two hard seasons

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Zebra Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Sheer and solid on one tube, with the seams disclosed

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Roman Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Soft folds for the openings that have real trim

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Woven Wood Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Natural weave that warms a room of drywall and glass

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Blackout Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Dark rooms come from geometry, not just from fabric

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Plantation Shutters in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Panels that stay with the house and cost you some view

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Cafe Shutters in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Half height panels for houses that sit close to the sidewalk

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Motorized Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Automation for the glass nobody can reach twice a day

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Custom Drapery in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Fabric, fullness and a stack that lands on the wall

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Valances & Top Treatments in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Top treatments that finish an opening and hide the hardware

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Exterior Solar Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Stopping the sun outside the glass, then rolling it away

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Retractable Awnings in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Shade you can put away, with a wind plan attached

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Commercial Window Treatments in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Specified once, then held across every opening in the building

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Skylight Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Tensioned channels for the glass gravity works against

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Sliding Glass Door Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

The stack parks off the panel you walk through

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Panel Track Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Wide panels that park where they don't cost you view

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Sheer Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Vanes that kill glare without going dark

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Pleated Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

One layer of fabric, priced and explained honestly

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Bamboo Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Natural weave, and it passes light by design

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Dual Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Two states on one tube, if the headrail runs level

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Top-Down Bottom-Up Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Light from the top, privacy from the bottom

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Cordless Blinds in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

No accessible cord, and the spring ages honestly

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Hardwood Shutters in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Real wood where the air is dry and the trim shows

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Composite Shutters in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Painted poly for wet rooms and wide spans

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Smart Home Shade Integration in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Pick the protocol that outlives the shades

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Blind Repair & Restring in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

New string when it pays, a new blind when it doesn't

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Shutter Repair in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Matched first, scheduled second

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Motorization Retrofit in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

We check the headrail before we sell you a motor

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Outdoor Patio Shades in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Anchored into structure, retracted before the wind

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Office Window Treatments in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Openness per elevation, reach ranges in the schedule

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Healthcare Window Treatments in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

Cordless and cleanable, with the paperwork in the submittal

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Multifamily Window Treatments in Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East

One spec per floor plan, and dye lots documented

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Serving McCordsville and Neighboring Towns

Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East is one of several McCordsville communities we serve. We measure and install across McCordsville, Hancock County, and surrounding areas.

Common Questions

Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East Window Treatment FAQ

Questions we hear most often from Bay Creek at Geist and Bay Creek East homeowners.

Three percent for most great rooms on this exposure. Geist lies north and west of the Bay Creek plats, so the rear glass takes low afternoon sun doubled by reflection off open water, and a 5 percent fabric that would be fine on an interior lot in Villages at Brookside lets too much of that through here. Five percent still works on north and east elevations of the same house. One percent kills the view you paid for. Bedrooms come out of this conversation entirely, because no solar fabric darkens a room regardless of its openness.
No. Geist Reservoir is legally in Marion, Hamilton and Hancock counties, but the bulk of the water and every well known Geist subdivision sits in Fishers or Indianapolis. Bay Creek is on the Hancock County side. W Nautica Blvd is recorded in the Indiana statewide parcel layer with a tax district of MCCORDSVILLE CIVIL TOWN, which is how you separate this pocket from the visually identical streets a mile west. Practically it means Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation rather than Hamilton Southeastern, and Hancock County rates. For window work it changes nothing except who you're talking to.
If you can't reach them from the floor, yes, and here's the part that usually goes undisclosed. Hunter Douglas states PowerView battery life at about one year, so six high units on a Bay Creek water elevation means a recurring battery job you should budget for. Where a hardwired feed or a trickle charge option is reachable we specify it instead. Motorization also buys you a sun sensor or an astronomical timer, which on this exposure is worth more than the convenience, because the shades drop before the glare lands rather than after.
Panel track most often on W Nautica Blvd. A roller over a 12 foot door wall has to clear the handle, which usually forces a reverse roll where the fabric hangs off the front of the tube, and reverse roll is not compatible with a fascia. Panel track slides sideways, parks clear of the opening and leaves the door reading full width when it's open onto the deck. Where you want the softer look instead, pleated drapery on a traverse rod with a proper return and overlap does the same job. We check handle clearance at the measure.
They'll slow it. They won't stop it. NFRC attributes roughly 40 to 60 percent of fading damage to UV, and the rest comes from visible light and heat that no window covering removes entirely. On a Bay Creek west elevation with reflection off the reservoir adding to the load, a 3 percent solar fabric plus a habit of closing it during the worst two hours makes a real difference over years. Anyone promising a shade will end the fading on this exposure is selling something no fabric does.
Unknown, and we won't guess. An association is recorded for the Bay Creek plats, but its name, its architectural review process and its governing documents were not retrievable, so no rule about street facing covering color or reflective coverings could be verified in either direction. Treat that as unknown rather than absent. Before you commit to an exterior facing color on Anchor Bay Ct or Bayside Cir, pull your own recorded covenant, since the buyer's copy is usually the fastest source. We'll work to whatever it says.
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