(toe)nailing question: hanging duvet as curtains

[elveswillcom]

hello dear diyers,

i am going to hang 2 quite heavy duvets as curtain doors.
im going to use nails to hang the top outside corners and clip the middle, to create a slit for me to walk in and out of.

A. is it necessary to drive the nails at an angle? if so, should it be pointing upwards or downwards? (pls look at the illustration) does it matter? what are the differences?

B. what sort of nail and nail thickness is necessary? as shown in the illustration, i plan to have the 2 end corners nailed. i can use more than 1 nail for each corners.

thank you for your help, sounds very tedious but i wanna get the basics right!

nails

• elveswillcom
• 5 Feb 2012
• 1

 

[JohnD]

A nail will soon tear its way through the duvet cover.

You might consider cup hooks, with plastic coating so the surface is much thicker.

 

[BigRobCanUFixIt]

how about cutting some timber to the width of the doov then inserting into the cover and then putting fixing through that using cup washers or something. I would probably screw it rather than nailing it.

Are you going for a bedouin tent theme there. would be interested to see the outcome.

Rob

 

[IJWS15]

All the duvet filling will fall to the bottom of the pockets . . . . .

They are designed to work horizontally, not vertically

 

[dhutch]

A nail will soon tear its way through the duvet cover.

All the duvet filling will fall to the bottom of the pockets . . . . .

These would be my concerns.

If you where going nail it you would nail it slightly downwards (red arrow) not up, then the weight/force is trying to hold the nail in no pull it out, just like you would with tent pegs.

But I agree that you would be better either inserting a wooden battern into the top od the duvet and securing that, or as i would expect that to be harder and messier than i sounds, trapping the duvet behind/between a battern or pair of batterns.

Hollowfibre duvets settle a lot less than feather/down types and might work ok, but I would think you would be much better with a felt or quited type affair.

I presume the thought it create a barrier to heat and draft to keep the warm in? In which case getting a good fit is at important as anything else.



Daniel