Making good for new curtain poles

Jet

I am about to start decorating my bedroom.

The curtain poles that were left by the predesessors were barely hanging on the wall.  The walls are plasterboard.  They have left me with a bit of a mess and I'm unsure how to make good and how to ensure I can get a good fixing for my own curtain poles.

There are also a number of these plasterboard fixings left in the wall that I want to remove but when I remove them and try to fill the hole the filler just falls into the plasterboard wall.  Any suggestions please?

Photo's to show how it is.

Thanks in advance.

Bettie

I ended up putting a nice piece of wood across and screwing poles into the wood . I wasn't happy with that although it worked fine so I bought blinds 🤣

Annemos

I did the same, Bettie. 

My wall was "dot and dabbed" with plasterboard after an Insurance Claim. The Pole would not stay in and kept falling off.  

So, we put a strip of wood across and painted it in the same colour as the wall. And as I had wooden Poles, I finished off the end-edges with a trim the same colour as the Pole. 

I am very happy with this.  


(Just to note......   In the last photo, there is also another plastic white curtain rail underneath, which I use for lightweight curtains to shade from the sun in the morning.

And also, this last photo was taken before I added the end trims................

I looked at it for a Couple of days and decided that I preferred to finish it off with the decorative trim, so it looks part of the overal design.)

Beeblebr0x

A neat job and it makes fitting the pole a whole lot easier 

Bettie

Looks lovely 

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Jet said:

There are also a number of these plasterboard fixings left in the wall that I want to remove but when I remove them and try to fill the hole the filler just falls into the plasterboard wall.  Any suggestions please?

Have a look for a lighter filler such as One Strike, and/or poke a bit in, leave it to dry and then fill over.

If you push too much through the weight overhanging through the back of the plasterboard just pulls all the filler out the hole. 

The One Strike stuff is really good. 

Grenage

The heads can normally be snapped off the hollow wall anchors (metal ones), and the remainder pushed back before filling.