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A lost remote
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Radio motors can usually be paired to a new control if you can still put the motor into programming mode. That mode is sometimes a button on the motor head, which means opening the box.
Separate a jam from a setting
Keep the instructions with the guarantee, not in the fitter's van.
Write down the time, whether the curtain is level, and any click. Repeated button presses overheat a motor and make a simple limit fault look like a death.
The opening this fault sits on
Fitted illustration for A lost remote in London: £2,759 at September 2026 prices, for this 2.4 by 1.2 m opening with a solar motor. The figure allows a front-mounted aluminium curtain and ordinary fixing. It does not include scaffold, a rebuilt soffit, planning drawings, or a new window. A second opening on the same visit usually costs less than the first, because the van is already there. Compare two quotes only when the slat, the box and the drive match.
- Leave the curtain where it stopped.
- Check for ice, a plant, or a bifold handle in the guide.
- Note the motor brand if it is written inside the box cover you were shown.
- For A lost remote, do not order a whole new elevation because one axle misbehaved.
Do not invent a temperature from a stuck motor
Winter figure for A lost remote: glass at 2.6 W/m2K, 2.88 square metres, a 12 degree inside-outside gap and eight night hours. The bare pane is about 0.72 kWh a night on that crude sum. A closed shutter cutting about 30 percent of the flow leaves 0.50 kWh and saves about 0.22 kWh a night, only while it is down. Open it when you want winter sun.
Hands off, then a list
Stop A lost remote if the only place for the box is a listed street front and nobody has written advice from the council. A photograph is not a manufacturing size.
How to use the figure
The 2.4 by 1.2 metre opening inside A lost remote is there so a quote has something to disagree with. If the tape gives a different size, the tape wins.
The example drive is a solar motor, and the illustration is £2,759. A belt, a wired motor and a solar motor can share a curtain and still be different jobs. Compare those lines, not a single bold total.
What the survey still has to write down
For A lost remote, ask where the box lands, what colour reference will be ordered, and how the curtain opens when the motor is dead. Those three answers move the job more than a rounded price.
Leave the lantern, the side light and the next elevation off the order unless they are drawn. A lost remote covers one kind of opening. The house may have three.
When I would not order yet
A lost remote should wait if the opening is an escape door with no way to raise a dead motor, or if the front is the elevation a conservation area was drawn to protect.
A photograph is not a manufacturing size. Two quotes for A lost remote only compare when the slat, the box and the drive are the same kind of thing.
Questions worth asking the fitter
Is the price on this page a quote?
No. £2,759 illustrates A lost remote for a 2.4 by 1.2 metre opening with a solar motor, at September 2026 rates. Your survey replaces it.
Does the shutter cover every pane?
It covers the opening it is built for. Here that example is 2.88 square metres. A roof lantern, a side light or the next elevation is another line.
What if planning is unclear?
Do not pay the factory for A lost remote until a listed building, a conservation front, a flat or a shopfront has a written answer. Ordinary rear walls on houses are sometimes simpler.
What should two quotes share?
The same openings, the same slat type, and the same drive. A lost remote uses a solar motor in the example so you can see how much the motor choice moves £2,759.