Custom Drapery & Curtains Downtown Whitby – Free Installation

Only if the fixing gets past the plaster. We look for the header above the window or the studs beside it and screw into wood wherever it can be reached. Where the span leaves nothing solid, we fit a mounting board first, screwed back into whatever framing exists, and hang the rod off that. Toggle anchors alone in old lath will let go the first time somebody yanks a panel.

A bent track follows the bay and lets one set of panels close across the whole thing, which keeps the bay reading as one window. The alternative is a rod per section, which looks more traditional and gives you three sets of panels to open every morning. Bay tracks get made to a template we take on site, so the measure takes longer than a straight window does.

Because the fabric has not been trained yet. A panel comes off the rail flat and needs its folds set by hand, which means running the pleats down the full drop and tying the panel loosely for a few days so the cloth learns the shape. Steam helps. After that the folds fall the same way every time you draw them, and a panel that was never dressed keeps sprawling for years.

They will. Panels are folded for delivery and the creases hang out over a week or two in most fabrics. A handheld steamer worked down the panel speeds it up, held a few centimetres off the cloth rather than pressed against it. Never take an iron to a lined panel. The lining and the face fabric shrink at different rates and the whole thing puckers.