Crumbling walls, which blinds?

[emelsie]

Need help, have a big floor to almost ceiling window but the walls above are awful and the curtain rail fittings crumble out every time despite using correct wall fittings . I'm looking at blinds now and would like blinds that fit into the window avoiding the wall altogether, which blinds should I be going for ? Thanks !

[ss2011]

Hello. Have been looking at these too for some French doors and there seems to be quite a few like this e.g Hillary’s “perfect fit” blinds and blinds to go “click fit” blinds.....

[emelsie]

Thanks! Will definitely have a look at those

[HomeOfMyOwn]

In my experience you then just get the wall/window recess crumbling and the blinds falling down with a terrifying bang in the middle of the night. Instead of fixing directly into wall use a wooden batton that can be fixed in multiple places on to the wall with those umbrella style rawl plugs paint it to match walls and fix curtain rail as normal.

[ProcrastinatingPingu]

We’ve just bought a house and had the exact same problem, due to a concrete lintel above the window.
We got a heavy duty drill and attached a wooden plank to the wall with mid sized plugs and good sized screws.
We had to go quite deeply into the concrete to get the screws to fix in properly.