Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The
bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not been
good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the
clothes and slip out of their supports.

Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?

Many thanks

ItsChris

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Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The
bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not been
good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the
clothes and slip out of their supports.

Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?

Many thanks

ItsChris

This tends to be a problem if the bar is too long and unsupported.

Is it not possible to support the bar from above? You can get brackets
which will do this job, and they screw up into the shelf immediately above.

Incidentally, you wouldn't normally use a bar, you'd use a tube because
weight for weight tubes are invariably stronger. However I suspect
that's what you meant anyway.

Andrew

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Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The
bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not
been good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the
clothes and slip out of their supports.

Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?

Many thanks

ItsChris

The usual 3/4" chromed metal tube is perfectly adequate - unless your
clothes are exceptionally heavy - but will need supporting in the middle.
Supports which slide over the bar, and screw to the top of the wardrobe (or
to the shelf over the hanging rail) are readily available.
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This tends to be a problem if the bar is too long and unsupported.

1.4 meters is /very/ long for an unsupported clothes rail. If you look
at shop clothes rails of this length they're made of far sterner stuff
than this.

I'd go with the idea of supporting the rail in the middle - or if you're
hanging a row of duffel coats even twice in the middle.

Plenty of the sort Andrew mentioned here...
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...33026&ts=21706

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You can get a 1 inch chromed tube with 1 inch fittings from most DIY sheds.
this will take more weight than the ordinary 3/4 inch tubes, but remember to
put at least one support in the middle fixed to the shelf above.


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Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The
bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not been
good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the
clothes and slip out of their supports.

Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?

Many thanks

ItsChris

http://www.woodfit.com/index.php?cPath=89

I have used this system and have no problems,even with my wifes extensive
collection of clothes

wrote:
Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The
bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not been
good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the
clothes and slip out of their supports.

Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?

Many thanks

ItsChris


Conduit and hospital saddles.

wrote:
Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The
bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not been
good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the
clothes and slip out of their supports.
Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?

1 1/2 inch brass cased tube, from architectural ironmongers. My clothes
have been hanging from a 1.8 metre length for over twenty years, no
centre support and it doesn't sag.


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