I'm a complete DIY novice and I'm having issues with my living room curtain rail.
The window is about 2 metres in width, and I have a curtain rail to hang and long curtains to install on to it.
My dad helped when he visisted by drilling it into the wall. We could only drill about 2 inches into the wall, and then hit metal so can't go any f urther. We hung it. It looked great, then the next day fell down.
I eventually bought a 2.5 metre piece of wood. I drilled holes into it, about 8 of them evenly spaced along it.
I drilled the wood into the wall as far as it would go and then screwed the curtain rail into the wood and it seemed very strong. About 2 hours later though ti again fell out and took a bit of plaster with it - only a bit. The wall seems fine, not crumbly or anything so I don't know what else to do.
Additionally, the wall is a bit wonky, as in you put the wood against it, and it sits nicely on it, but in the central part there is a small gap as the wall curves outwards, don't think this would cause any major issue.
I'm stuck now, fed up and ****ed off. I just wanna hang up my curtains and seems so stupid that I can't.
Any ideas?!
The window is about 2 metres in width, and I have a curtain rail to hang and long curtains to install on to it.
My dad helped when he visisted by drilling it into the wall. We could only drill about 2 inches into the wall, and then hit metal so can't go any f urther. We hung it. It looked great, then the next day fell down.
I eventually bought a 2.5 metre piece of wood. I drilled holes into it, about 8 of them evenly spaced along it.
I drilled the wood into the wall as far as it would go and then screwed the curtain rail into the wood and it seemed very strong. About 2 hours later though ti again fell out and took a bit of plaster with it - only a bit. The wall seems fine, not crumbly or anything so I don't know what else to do.
Additionally, the wall is a bit wonky, as in you put the wood against it, and it sits nicely on it, but in the central part there is a small gap as the wall curves outwards, don't think this would cause any major issue.
I'm stuck now, fed up and ****ed off. I just wanna hang up my curtains and seems so stupid that I can't.
Any ideas?!