What This Standard Covers
- Pocket sizing by tube and fabric combination
- Motor selection (battery, hardwired, low-voltage) and trade-offs
- Fabric width, hem alignment, and seam matching across windows
- Hard-stop programming and synchronization across motor groups
- Pocket trim and reveal details for ceiling and recessed installations
- Service access and battery replacement protocol
Who It Is For
- Architects designing window pockets into the ceiling or header
- Window-treatment workrooms fabricating the fabric panels
- Designers selecting fabric for a multi-window installation
- GCs framing pockets and headers
When To Use It
- During the framing phase when window pockets are still flexible
- When specifying the motor and the fabric for a project
- Before the fabric workroom cuts material
- During programming and commissioning, when alignment is verified
Read or Download the PDF
The full standard, including diagrams, tolerance tables, and pass/fail photographic references, is in the embedded PDF below. You can read it inline or download it for your jobsite folder.
Field Notes
The two failures we see most often on motorized shades: pockets that are too tight, and alignment that is not synchronized. A pocket that is too small forces a smaller tube, which limits the fabric width, which means more seams across a window run. Synchronization is a programming and motor-selection issue, but it shows up at trim when the homeowner watches the shades come down at different speeds.
This standard prevents both. We size the pocket for the largest reasonable tube. We select motors that can be synchronized (not all motors can). We commission the run as a group, not as individual shades. The result is what a luxury shade is supposed to look like.