Drilling through a Drylined wall into a steel Lintel

[John43]

Hi

Hanging a curtain rail has anybody got any advice on how best to do this?, the void between the plasterboard and the lintel is quite small circa 1-1.5cm and its proving to be a real bugger of a job!

Is it possible to use self tapping screws or is the lintel too hard for this?.

PS I hate drylined walls?!

Thanks

John

 

[JohnD]

Use a HSS drill.

The steel may be a bit thick for self tappers. There are some special screws I haven't used. But you can also drill a hole big enough to push a plasplug into, and use ordinary "wood" screws. They need to be long enough to pass through the part in the steel.

 

[John43]

Cheers John I'll give that a go

 

[claddernladder]

you can use tek screws suitable for going into hot rolled steel, (normal steel) or cold rolled steel if it is the likes of a catnic lintel, you will get these from most fixings suppliers, just make sure the size screw you buy the thread reaches the steel as these screws tend to have a 15 - 20 mm self drilling point, otherwise as johnd says you could just drill with something like a 4 mm hss bit and screw a 10s wood screw into it, if you go for the tek screw option make sure you either get a tek head to drive the screw in (8mm nutsetter) or get the tek screws with the pozi head!!