Conservatory curtain poles

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:20 pm

My sister wanted some simple rails for her conservatory, not full on curtains, only for voiles.

I messed up the pics, so not great quality or quantity

These are the brackets-

The back section comes off, to allow invisible fixing, one grubscrew too lock the two section together, the other to lock the rail in position.

The rails are 10mm diameter solid stainless steel.
I bought it in 6m lengths, then rough cut it for each section of the shape.
Bar and brackets 304 stainless steel.

Final lenghs were decided after fitting the brackets.
Ends cut and polished to the same dull polish finish as the main bar and brackets.

Long rail in position.

Cut with a thin disc, then polished with a reca polymop, heat discolouration then removed with a coarse diamond block, to match the grit of the polish.

Total of 6 individual rails, about 11.5 metres.

panlid · Post by **panlid** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:26 pm

i like the idea of these. i have never seen curtains in a conservatory, always blinds.
what screws did you use?

you do know there is a middle spine in the upvc and if your screws are about 2" long they will get it.

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:34 pm

Went for stainless ones, coarse thread like you recomended.
Found some quality Spax ones

They all screwed in nice and tight, some must have gone into the ally behind

Post by **ultimatehandyman** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:53 pm

You don't get quality like that in the shops

Good work

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:00 pm

Quite right Chez, made to measure. I wonder how much something like that would cost to have done

Tryanything · Post by **Tryanything** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:18 pm

Nice job Hitch
In London they would charge £300-£400 for that posibly more

blakes · Post by **blakes** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:38 pm

Nice work. The pic of you using the angle grinder made me cringe a bit though!

Only-Me · Post by **Only-Me** » Sun May 04, 2008 6:55 pm

panlid wrote:i like the idea of these. i have never seen curtains in a conservatory, always blinds.
what screws did you use?

you do know there is a middle spine in the upvc and if your screws are about 2" long they will get it.

There for the hanging baskets

Hitch · Post by **Hitch** » Sun May 04, 2008 7:06 pm

blakes wrote:Nice work. The pic of you using the angle grinder made me cringe a bit though!

Only a polishing mop in there

yourweb · Post by **yourweb** » Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:07 am

Those look very nice. What kind of design did you take them off of?

Chrispops · Post by **Chrispops** » Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:12 am

New to the forum, can I ask where the curtain rail bracket’s were bought from?

Someone-Else · Post by **Someone-Else** » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:01 am

Chrispops, you can ask but the OP stopped posting Nov 21*, and he made this post 15 years ago (2007) so I doubt the place he got the brackets from (If he can remember) is still trading.
On any forum, hi-jacking a thread is never a good idea, always best to start your own.

*He does browse occasionally.

moderator2 · Post by **moderator2** » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:05 am

Someone-Else, Hitch was last active on here less than 2 weeks ago, which is why I haven't locked the thread.