newbie DIYer: trouble to install rollerblind

bob_a_builder

Most blind fixings can be fixed going sideways into the side reveal walls of the window. This should be plaster and brick with no lintel or whatever.

Seconded !!

Exactly this - much easier to drill here !!
Put up a number of Venetians for no1 son last weekend, that way - very easy to drill

jhs14

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

Most blind fixings can be fixed going sideways into the side reveal walls of the window. This should be plaster and brick with no lintel or whatever.

Indeed - that's the ways always do it and I had assumed the OP had done the same.

It also means the screw is horizontal not vertical so more likely to stay in place, especially as it is braced by the other side of the window reveal.