Fitting Hook to Wall

chib

We're fitting some new curtains to our front room and unfortunately we don't have hooks in place already.

What would be the best way of doing this? I can't help but think ones with a short thread will just come out after a few weeks and require re-mounting.

Photo here of where we wish to mount - http://i.imgur.com/extpQkH.jpg

Any thoughts? A really common thing, I just don't want to mess the wall.

Jonesya

What is the wall - is it solid plaster or boarded/drylined? I take these are just hooks for tie backs, so no real load on them?

For solid plaster you want to drill and fit some small wall plugs and screw into those. If its dry lined then again a wall plug should suffice or for more strength use a screw in plasterboard fixing, assuming the hook has a wide base to cover their fixing.

chib

It's a plaster wall, about an inch of plaster then brick.

I did have that thought, however the hooks I've found to date have all been very thin threaded. I was actually thinking I could consider driving in a wall plug followed by a screw.

Ebe_Scrooge

Jonesya wrote: »

What is the wall - is it solid plaster or boarded/drylined? I take these are just hooks for tie backs, so no real load on them?

For solid plaster you want to drill and fit some small wall plugs and screw into those. If its dry lined then again a wall plug should suffice or for more strength use a screw in plasterboard fixing, assuming the hook has a wide base to cover their fixing.

This. Assuming it's only for tie-backs then a small rawl-plug with the hook screwed into it will be fine. This would be no good for something that had to bear any kind of load, but for tie-backs it'll be fine. Just make sure that the hole you drill and the rawl-plug are correctly sized in relation to the diameter of the screw thread - you want a reasonably snug fit.