Recent content by cadenza

Yes, you're quite right - useless photos! I've poked several things in, and it seems to me that they definitely hit something very solid about 1" in - could this be a lintel? There doesn't seem to be plasterboard, and what the screws were in before just seems like a rather loose dusty...

Thanks very much for such a quick reply. I'll start with the pole that fell down - so far as I can see, although the wall above the window sounds solid, where the screws are seems to be very flakey plaster/mortar - not sure if these pictures help or not!

We moved into this house just over a year ago - it's a 1958 semi, that's had quite a few extensions. Before the winter, we're trying to get decent curtain poles and curtains up - at the moment, not very many rooms have these, or they have useless blinds. We've got several problems. On the...