On 24/11/2013 23:09, robgraham wrote:
On Saturday, November 23, 2013 10:34:30 PM UTC, Tim Watts wrote:
On Saturday 23 November 2013 21:54 robgraham wrote in uk.d-i-y:



We have a difficult window to curtain. It's deep and relatively narrow.

The reveal is 16 cm deep and absolutely square sided. The window

(traditional Scottish sash) is near enough 100 cm wide, 140 cm high with

the sill at 100 cm.



The problem is the curtain rail which requires sharp angles over a fairly

short distance.



The question is - would a corded rail work better than just a plain

pull-the-curtain type?



Thanks

Rob



I used ali I-beam rail in my square bays:



http://www.tracksandpoles.com/tracks...eam-track.html



In expensive, strong, easy to form to fairly tight bends (bend raidius about

7cm), can be top hung (ceiling) or face (wall) mounted.



Very smooth action...



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Thanks Tim - I went to check what was in this window at the moment and found an Al extrusion and nylon runners. The bends were R=17cm, so 7cm is really tight.

Out of interest did you use the wheeled runners or the nylon slides, and the site is advertising a Universal bracket but it's not in the drop down box ?

Cheers
Rob

Possibly redundant as that I-beam track looks like the real deal, but we
have been putting up corded tracks for the simple reason that our
ceilings (and therefore curtain rails) are pretty high, so the angle of
pull gets to be too oblique. Should you use any kind of corded systm
though, it pays to put an extra bracket at the cord pull end to take the
load should someone give it a bit too much of a tug.
No prizes for guessing how I found that out.....