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Update: I admitted defeat in the end and got a handyman to come round to help, it was concrete lintel and he managed to get through it with an SDS drill.

It's a flat and was built approx. 1960's

Kind of but there's not steel shavings coming off it more of a white powder comes out. I also didn't have it on the hammer setting when using the HSS drill bit as I read that might blunt the drill bit, but I did when using the masonry one. I think I might have to admit defeat and see if I can...

This is the HSS drill bit I was using it's the DeWalt Extreme 4mm. Power of drill is 18v not sure on the weight. Yep drill is definitely set to forward.

@Alec_t a new one, all the drill bits I used were brand new ones so not blunt.

As I'm a novice DIYer please tell me if this is a stupid idea, but I'm thinking if I can make holes 20mm deep before hitting lintel (or whatever it is that's there) could I trim a rawl plug and screw the brackets in with 20mm screws? The side brackets are screwed in properly on the side so these...

@JohnD I have the Dewalt DCD796 drill, I started out with a masonry drill bit on the hammer setting and it went about 2cm in before hitting something hard which I assumed was steel lintel. I then tried again with a HSS drill bit but same thing happened again and no matter how much I tried it...

Ok so I bought a HSS drill bit and gave it another go in a couple of different positions and still no joy. I'm not 100% certain that it's metal as the drill bit didn't seem to have any metal shavings on it and a white dust was coming out. Any ideas? I've got the side brackets up but I feel...

Thanks @freddiemercurystwin! That's a good point I'm just assuming it's steel, I guess it could also be concrete. How would I know? If it's concrete would I be able to drill through it? Annoyingly we need to trim a couple of mm off the headrail as it's a tiny bit too long even though our...

Hi, So we have bought two lots of wooden venetian blinds from Blinds2go to go up in the window recess of two of our bedrooms. We put the smallest one up on the weekend which was 177cm wide by side fixing the brackets to the recess, it came with a middle support bracket but it appears to be ok...