wanted 2: long curtain pole

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[Greedo]

Anyone know where I can get a curtain pole around 2.4m in a single pole? The curtains we have won't join properly with the support bracket you usual need to join 2 poles to get this length.

Go to a timber merchants and get the thickest piece of dowling they have and cut it to size, paint or stain. Job done!

 

[Kirstie]

I'm pretty sure we have a curtain poles that long. We live in one of those 60s houses that are more window than bricks. I got ours from a company called Musbury Fabrics in Helmshore, Rossendale. They might have other branches though.

 

[amnesia]

Metal is your friend

Ours are almost 12ft long.

 

[Mr Pig]

If it's a wooden pole that's unsupported in the middle there's a good chance it'll sag. What you can do is buy one that's already bent!

Fit it so that it bends up in the middle and the weight of the curtains will pull it straight...ish ;0)

 

[slowmotion]

If it's a wooden pole that's unsupported in the middle there's a good chance it'll sag. What you can do is buy one that's already bent!

Fit it so that it bends up in the middle and the weight of the curtains will pull it straight...ish ;0)

Sorry, there is a fatal flaw. If it is straight when the curtains are closed, it will be bent upwards when they are open.

 

[Mr Pig]

Sorry, there is a fatal flaw. If it is straight when the curtains are closed, it will be bent upwards when they are open.

Yes, but you don't notice it! For some reason if it sags down you really notice it but if it sticks up you don't. And the curtains bend it down a bit even when open.

 

[slowmotion]

Yes, but you don't notice it! For some reason if it sags down you really notice it but if it sticks up you don't. And the curtains bend it down a bit even when open.

Hmmm? Maybe one's brain assumes that it can only sag downwards, and can't accept the idea that it is bending up? Dunno, mate...

 

[Night Train]

Hmmm? Maybe one's brain assumes that it can only sag downwards, and can't accept the idea that it is bending up? Dunno, mate...

But then it looks like the weight of the open curtains are pulling the ends down.

You will need a large diameter pole to be strong enough to support the weight anyway so why not look at a good quality round stair hand rail.
Something like this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stair-Part-Ax...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item4a97beb718
Or this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stair-Part-Ax...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item4a97beb70a
Or this in Oak
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Stair-Part-Ax...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_3?hash=item4a968edf4d

 

[Fnaar]

I got ours from a company called Musbury Fabrics in Helmshore, Rossendale. They might have other branches though.

That's it, use a branch!

 

[Kirstie]

That's it, use a branch!

I'd go for the pipe option, but branch might work, for that natural look...

 

[classic33]

http://www.curtainpoles-direct.com/
claim to do them.

Have you considered getting an overlapping bracket which would cover the join from & allow your curtains to close past the centre support.

 

[dellzeqq]

look up steel stockholder in the yellow pages - most of them are used to people going along and buying odds and ends, although how you get it home on the bus...

curtain poles look clumsy over 30mm in diameter - and, as you say, timber poles sag - and, unless you use unsustainable hardwoods you have to wax them to keep the rings sliding.

If the window is eight foot across, why not have an elegant bracket to hold up the pole in the middle? - John Lewis do them. They also sell brackets and rings that allow the rings to pass over the bracket

I'm interested by Mr. Pig's post. 'Flat' arches should have a slight rise in them to counter the impression that they are sagging. Bricklayers used to know that. Very few architects do.