Hanging Heavy Curtains On Drywall

Hanging curtain rods is fairly simple and you don t need many tools to do it.

Hanging heavy curtains on drywall.

Curtains made from heavy material can block light from entering your windows more effectively than a sheer and light material curtain but the heavier curtains do have their drawbacks. In the typical recently built house this means getting your screws through the drywall and into a stud. Geefix are heavy duty drywall anchors so ideal for mounting curtain rods in drywall for heavy curtains or drapes. Tips and suggestions designers and decorators have access to specialty curtain rods designed for heavy drapery which are not readily available in retail outlets.

Last fall we shared our trick for hanging affordable ikea curtains so they look a lot more expensive than their 14 price tag per panel would suggest across an entire house you can save thousands with that trick these curtains alone. Drywall may look solid enough but it won t hold a screw and if you mount a curtain rod improperly you ll end up with a sagging curtain and a hole to patch. Hang the curtains on the rod. But since we were just replacing our old bedroom curtains when we wrote that post we skipped the crucial step of actually hanging the curtain rods themselves.

Hanging heavy curtains in drywall needs to be done with a fixing that can take the weight of the curtains. How to attach a curtain rod to drywall. The added weight of the material requires you to invest more effort into the hanging process. The curtain curtain rod combo is heavy enough that in an ideal situations your brackets would go into wood.

Depending on what you re hanging or mounting you may want to use a specific kind of drywall anchor and there are several to choose from. Then you screw into the anchor so everything stays in place.