Hanging Heavy Curtains On Drywall

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.

Hanging heavy curtains on drywall.

This quick guide is designed to help you learn how to hang curtain rods in drywall but the same basic process applies with only minor variations if you re mounting your hardware on another surface. The curtain curtain rod combo is heavy enough that in an ideal situations your brackets would go into wood. In the typical recently built house this means getting your screws through the drywall and into a stud. Hanging curtain rods is fairly simple and you don t need many tools to do it.

Tips and suggestions designers and decorators have access to specialty curtain rods designed for heavy drapery which are not readily available in retail outlets. Then you screw into the anchor so everything stays in place. A drywall anchor goes between the screw and the drywall biting into the drywall much more effectively than a screw would. 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.

How to attach a curtain rod to drywall. Geefix drywall anchors pack of 4. Hang the curtains on the rod. Geefix are heavy duty drywall anchors so ideal for mounting curtain rods in drywall for heavy curtains or drapes.

The added weight of the material requires you to invest more effort into the hanging process. 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.