Help with net curtains and telescopic rods with UPVC windows? (merged threads)

Barneysmom

Go for nets rather than blinds, you can take the whole lot down every few weeks and wash them, much easier to do than cleaning blinds.

lynseyr1

Thats so true.

gundo

Next week I'm finally having my wooden framed single glazing completely replaced with UPVC double glazing. My question is, how do I hang my nets? Previously I had the small hooks/eyes screwed into the wooden window frames, should I drill holes in my precious (to me!) new window frames to do this or is there another way. The walls around the windows are all plasterboard and if I screw the eyes/hooks into that they just pull out with the tension.

I was thinking perhaps a piece of square section dowel glued across the top of the frame to provide an anchor or would that look hideous?

Ideas please, ta very much.

VfM4meplse

Forget the glue, invest in a tension rod instead. This will hold the net up between the internal window walls. Not expensive but pricier than screws / hooks. Also v. easy to get the nets down to wash them and rehang (a one-man job).

continualdiamond

Agree with the tension rods, we bought these from argos (623/1127) and we have a ceiling to floor window in the lounge and the tension rod has been great, holds the curtains lovely. Granted it is a pack of 2 and we currently have 1 spare, but where thinking of putting a voile up in the 2nd bedroom anyway.

buxtonrabbitgreen

I agree with the others, but Wilkos also sell them so it is worth a look to see if they are cheaper there. That's where I got mine

Catlin

You can get extendable net rods that have little brackets that come with sticky pads to stick onto the UPVC frame. Unfortunately I can't remember where I got mine from but it was probably somewhere like B & Q or Homebase.

minstrelcat

Does anyone have any ideas on how to put up net curtains in a bay window with UPVC frames - obviously a tension road won't go around corners!

Bettie

I have extending rods and keep them up with a tiny right angled screw bracket that came with them, they stick up and you slot the end of the rod on . No need for a drill. I started a hole with a sharp point, put the bracket in and it hand screwed in - as you do with wood. To support the middle of the rod on my wider windows, I used a tiny white screw-in cup hook.
The hole is not much bigger than a drawing pin hole and if you ever change your mind you can press a teeny bit of white sealant into the hole and no one would ever know there was anything there.