{"id":2325,"date":"2021-10-02T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T12:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2021-10-07T19:49:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T18:49:35","slug":"could-blackout-blinds-keep-a-vampire-alive-during-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishblinds.co.uk\/blog\/geek-central\/could-blackout-blinds-keep-a-vampire-alive-during-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Could blackout blinds keep a vampire alive during the day?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Vampire<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Could blackout blinds keep a vampire alive in a pinch if their coffin was unavailable? Could you consider using a room with blackout blinds in place of a coffin for say, travel purposes, or even as a permanent alternative to an underground repose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well. We\u2019re so confident that our blackout blinds (when hung correctly) could keep a vampire alive that we\u2019re prepared to offer a complete set of blackout blinds totally free to any vampire that\u2019s willing to give them a whirl. Please see the final section for details on how to claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, we\u2019ve fallen short thus far in terms of finding an actual vampire who is willing to take one for the team in this respect, and believe me it\u2019s not for want of trying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to try to rectify this, this blog post will provide some insights on blackout blinds and their applications for vampires, and offer some important information and advice on the potential limitations of blackout blinds as well as how to hang them for optimum vampire safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackout blinds and vampire safety: potential limitations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For mortals, blackout blinds are supposed to keep the sun out of your room so that you can sleep; or perversely, so that you can kill imaginary vampires in gaming marathons without screen glare getting you bitten. Although frankly, we think that this latter application for blackout blinds is somewhat offensive to real vampires TBH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that a little chink of light that your blind seems to have befriended is likely to be hella annoying to real live people who picked blackout blinds; but what if your use of blackout blinds was a bit more highly loaded?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could, say, a room with blackout blinds keep a vampire alive by protecting them effectively against all harmful external UV light?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I get that \u201cOMG YES\u201d was probably more the response you were expecting, given that I\u2019m claiming that blackout blinds COULD keep a vampire alive as the whole point of this post. But the \u201cmaybe\u201d comes from the fact that how your blackout blinds are hung is absolutely integral to their ability to block light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How come? Ok, so light cannot get through the actual fabric of a blackout blind itself. If you wrapped yourself\/a vampire in the fabric and sealed it with more of the same, you\/the theoretical vampire would fully be protected from the sun. Actually, we should maybe think of branching out into making travel sacks for vampires out of blackout blind material, now that I come to think of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, why the \u201cmaybe?\u201d Because depending on how you hang it, light may get in around the sides of the blind, which is somewhat annoying for mortal daysleepers, but rather more terminal for our undead clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blackout blinds hung inside of the window recess are more likely to get a level of light leakage than those hung outside of it, while those hung outside of\/over the recess will block very very nearly all external light if they cover a large enough margin of the wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to hang blackout blinds to provide total darkness and optimum vampire safety.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are really only two ways to be 100% sure that you keep all external light short of nuclear explosion from getting in through a window. Other than bricking up the window, so actually that\u2019s three options but let\u2019s just stick with those that apply to blackout blinds and vampires for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n