Horizontal sheer shades
How they move, how they mount, and the two measurements that make or break an inside-mount install.
Suggestions from real installs, not approved by Crestron. Bracket dimensions are Crestron's; other figures come from a real install, and a few are still estimates.
- Depth while moving
- Depth when open
- Depth right now
Taking the roll down
- Press the black button on the motor end.
- Push the roll toward the spring end.
- Drop the motor end down.
- Lift the pin out of its slot.
Putting it back
- Drop the pin into its slot.
- Push the roll toward the spring end.
- Lift the motor end into its bracket.
- Let go. It springs back and clicks in.
Motor end
The motor head locks into a sliding bracket that rides on a fixed base. Its black release button faces down, so it has to stay reachable with the shade installed. Sliding this end moves the whole roll.
Spring end
A spring-loaded pin with a groove near the tip. It drops into the slot in its bracket and pushes in almost flush, which is how the roll gets in and out. The slot sits on a sliding bracket too, on its own fixed base; sliding it changes how far the pin sticks out.
Slides both brackets the same way, so the light gaps even out and the pin doesn’t change. Do this once it’s back up.
The Crestron bracket: CSA-ARCH3-BRKT (single)
Redrawn from Crestron drawing M3S0-005 (02.27.15). The dimensions are Crestron's.
Motor bracket
The motor head goes into the round opening and locks in.
Idle (pin) bracket
The spring-loaded pin drops into the keyhole slot.
Seen from above: the mounting slots, the same on both brackets.
Fully custom. Side channels for horizontal sheers are a custom build. Crestron has no product for this.
- Know which end the motor is on before the channels are cut.
- Stop the channel short at the motor end so a finger can still reach the black button.
- Make the channel at least wide front to back. The bottom bar is lying flat.
- Make it at least deep, and on a yacht so the bar can’t work out underway. Depth matters most at the bottom.
- Start the channel with a V, or taper the top, so the roll can still come out, especially if the shade sits in a pocket.
- Test it with the shade installed: press the button and make sure that end drops free.
Shade up in a pocket
Think removal through before the channels are made. You can’t just drop the roll, pull it out of the channels and keep lowering it. Once it’s dropped, the shade has to slide across about 51 mm (the channel depth) to clear a channel, and a pocket often doesn’t leave that room sideways. If it doesn’t, the removal has to be designed in, starting with a V entry or tapered top on the channels.
These are suggestions from real installs, not a Crestron-approved procedure. Crestron has not approved this guide in any way, and it should not be referenced to Crestron as a source of information. Test any custom channel system with the shade before handover.
On a real window
The same shade coming down with its vanes closed, stopping just above the sill, then opening. Drag to scrub through the photos.
