This European Standard specifies the performance requirements which external blinds shall fulfil when fitted to a building. It deals also with the significant hazards for construction, transport, installation, operation and maintenance of the external blinds (see list of significant machine hazards in annex B).
It applies to all external blinds as well as similar products whatever their design and nature of the materials used, as follows and defined in EN 12216:
-folding arm awning, trellis arm awning, pivot arm awning, slide arm awning, vertical roller awning,
marquisolette, façade awning, skylight awning, conservatory awning, Dutch awning, insect screen;
-solar screen.
This European Standard does not cover the wind resistance of fixed nor semi-fixed products, e.g. Dutch awnings, fixed or mobile and solar screen. They are not exempt from wind resistance requirements although no test methods have been established at the present time.
The products covered by this European Standard may be operated manually, with or without compensating
springs or by means of electric motors (power operated products).
This document is not applicable to external blinds which are manufactured before the date of publication of this document.
Noise aspects are not treated in the standard because this is not considered a safety issue.
BS EN 13561:2004+A1:2008 Referenced Document
EN 1050:1996 Safety of Machinery - Principles for Risk Assessment
EN 12045 Shutters and blinds power operated - Safety in use - Measurement of the transmitted force
EN 12194 Shutters, external and internal blinds - Misuse - Test methods
EN 12216:2002 Shutters, external blinds, internal blinds - Terminology, glossary and definitions
EN 13125 Shutters and blinds - Additional thermal resistance - Allocation of a class of air permeability to a product
EN 13527 Shutters and blinds - Measurement of operating force - Test methods
EN 14201 Blinds and shutters - Resistance to repeated operations (mechanical endurance) - Methods of testing
EN 1670 Building hardware - Corrosion resistance - Requirements and test methods*， 2007-03-01 Update
EN 1932 External blinds and shutters - Resistance to wind loads - Method of testing and performance criteria*， 2013-06-01 Update
EN 1933 Exterior blinds - Resistance to load due to water accumulation - Test method
EN 20105-A02 Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part A02: Grey scale for assessing change in colour (ISO 105-A02:1993)
EN 20139 Textiles; standard atmospheres for conditioning and testing (ISO 139:1973)
EN 20811 Textiles - Determination of Resistance to Water Penetration - Hydrostatic Pressure Test
EN 60335-1 Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety - Part 1: General requirements*， 2018-11-01 Update
EN 61310-1 Safety of machinery - Indication, marking and actuation - Part 1: Requirements for visual, acoustic and tactile signals*， 2008-02-01 Update
EN ISO 10077-1 Thermal performance of windows@ doors and shutters - Calculation of thermal transmittance - Part 1: General*， 2017-07-01 Update
EN ISO 105-B04 Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part B04: Colour fastness to artificial weathering: Xenon arc fading lamp test (ISO 105‑B04:2024)*， 2024-03-20 Update
EN ISO 12100-2:2003 Safety of machinery - Basic concepts, general principles for design - Part 2: Technical principles Incorporates Amendment A1: 2009 [Superseded: CEN EN 292-2]*， 2024-04-19 Update
EN ISO 1421 Rubber- or plastics-coated fabrics - Determination of tensile strength and elongation at break*， 2016-12-01 Update
ISO 9227 Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres — Salt spray tests — Amendment 1: Footnote of Warning*， 2024-02-19 Update
BS EN 13561:2004+A1:2008 history
0000 BS EN 13561:2015(2016)
2015BS EN 13561:2015 External blinds and awnings. Performance requirements including safety