Can anyone recommend a good curtain pole supplier please?

[headfairy]

I'm looking for 500mm dia wooden poles, 240cm long but I'm struggling to find any under £200, does anyone know of a good cheap ish supplyer?

oops, I do of course mean 50mm dia curtain poles, a 500mm pole wouldn't be so much a pole as a block of wood :o

at the block of wood. I don't have anything useful to say, unfortunately, but I hope you don't mind if I hang around to steal any tips that come in. I've spent about 2 hours on curtain related, fruitless internet surfing tonight.

Ours are silver rather than wood, the extendable chrome ones from B&Q, theyw ere around £50 each from B&Q. They are 1 and 1/4 inch diamater, whats that in mm?

Some 50mm wooden ones here www.polesandblinds.com/Curtain-Poles/Wooden-Curtain-Poles/Natural-And-Stained-Wooden-Curtain-Poles/category234.asp

Have you got a Dunelm Mill near you? I got my poles from there - they had a wide selection and very reasonable in price.

Aworryingtrend, that's what we've got at the moment, they're too flimsy to hold up our curtains which are thermal and black out lined. Thanks for that link though... unfortunately for the length I'm looking for it still works out over £200.

interruptingcow, sadly no, the nearest is in Brighton, an hour and a half away.

viola, if you find anything half decent do feel free to share :o

Of course, headfairy. Though I predict that I may end up giving in and just selling my body to John Lewis, again . We need steel, I think; our house is ex-council 1930s with aluminium in the 1970s replacement window frames, so brass would look odd but I think wood is too cottagey for its modest style.

Jim Lawerence ironworks are brill quality and good value-metal though -not wood but different styles-pewter black etc.

I had some custom made as my curtains were so heavy.Great job and quick to deliver.

good luck viola :o

Thanks for that tip lucy, I will check them out. I don't mind metal ones, it's not an aesthetic thing, it's more because all the brackets I could find for metal poles have two screws one above the other and each time we've put them up the curtains have just ripped them out of the walls. A builder friend of mine said wooden poles usually have those round bracket plates you screw to the wall with three screws in a kind of triangle shape, and these will distribute the weight more evenly and should take the weight of the curtains. I've searched and searched for metal brackets that will do the job and none seem to work.