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  • I read none of that. It’s unimportant. You fixating on the tourism part isn’t going to gloss over the other things. If you take tourism away and change it for, I don’t know, carpets? Shower cubicles? Or cupcakes. Then you’d (probably) still be getting downvoted.

    You asked what the problem is, and I gave it you. It’s about you being arrogant about your personal point of view being the only correct way of looking at {insert thing here}, and also the calling everyone else clueless losers.
    Either of those two things annoys people, you did both.



  • I’ll try to help.
    Basically you were dismissive of everybody else’s points of view.
    Then gave your one anecdotal opinion about you growing up in your one town, and it being great
    …then, and this is probably the crux of the matter, stated that pretty much everyone else are clueless losers. All because their experiences with tourists (who have been noted as shitty for many decades) weren’t like yours.













  • TL;DR… Basically if you have correctly measured where things need to be but it’s old/weak plaster/wall covering and there’s a big void between plaster and wall, then go out and buy a timber batten and attach that to the studs above the reveal. Then attach brackets to that.
    If the wall is strong, or newer plasterboard, then using the correct fixings is all you need.

    Long version:
    I used to fit curtain poles and, well, wow … where do I start?

    Ok, usually there’s about 100 to 150mm (4-6 inch) from the window side reveals to the brackets. And about 75 to 100mm from the window top reveal to the curtain pole.

    The eyelet of the curtain should be over the bracket, covering it. And using it to anchor when you close the curtains.
    There should be about 50mm (2 inch) of curtain pole showing beyond the bracket to the finial. This is to allow different curtains to be used, you’ll get away with how you’ve done it with those eyelet curtains, but if you ever change to something like tag tops etc you’ll probably need to re-do the brackets.

    Fitment:
    There are two basic ways. Attaching directly, like you’ve done. Or adding a wooden batten to the wall above the window reveal and screwing everything to that.
    The wooden batten route is the far, far stronger method because you can attach the batten to the timber studs/blockwork all along the above part of the window reveal.
    Going directly looks a bit ‘cleaner’ but is weaker. Now with that said if you use the correct fasteners and screws then that’s usually more than good enough. However the usual wall plugs are usually not the best thing to use. With newer plasterboard then using good quality 7mm plugs will be great.
    For older plasterboard, or lath and plaster type walls then even using great quality wall plugs may not last that long. So if you can’t drill in to the wall behind said plaster work to get a good hold with the screws then go with the batten method.

    There are other methods. Such as acrylic resin chemical fixing, which is basically fast drying ‘concrete’ in a tube that can be squeezed in to brickwork holes etc. But this is only for the most unusual jobs due to the expense and tools needed.