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Raised baton under a curtain track - is it necessary?

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.10 PM

I'm finding this hard to describe so bear with me! Basically, above the bedroom window, the curtain track is not fixed directly to the wall but to an added wooden baton that moves the track a further inch or so away from the wall. I've never seen anything like this and am unsure if it's necessary or can be removed to improve the look of the room. None of the other windows in the property have this 'feature'. The windowsill beneath extends only about 10mm past the wall so I can't imagine the baton is needed to bring the curtains out over the sill. Yet I can't think of any other reason this would have been done. Obviously just the fixings of the curtain track lift the curtains off the wall. Before I look into getting it removed, what should I be thinking about? Is there a good reason why this is in place? The track is to be replaced with a pole and I think I'm going to struggle to get the fixings for the pole into the dimensions of the existing baton, hence another reason I'd like to be able to eliminate it.

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hi I have seen this a lot lots of people do this as above the window is a lintel some time its very hard to drill though and a good fixing cant be achieved so someone somewhere came up with sticking (gluing) a baton there as said above it made life easy when fixing rail.s a good sds drill should give you a nice deep hole for your new fixings after the baton has been removed

Answered24 September 2017

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Anonymous user

You can remove this baton their put up to make fixing curtain rails easier you may need to fill the holes etc afterwards.

Answered21 July 2017

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Anonymous user

There is probably a steel lintel behind that batten, also, very often the masonry above the window head has been "just filled in", this is perfectly adequate for the purposes of finishing the wall, but it doesn't stand up to a masonry drill bit, so builders/joiners often use the battens to hang rails on, the other reason is, you invariably need a minimum of 6 fixings to put up a rail, if you were drilling into an unstable substrate it would be very difficult to get the rail level /presentable. If the ingress of light around the sides bothers you, you could "plant" another batten on top of the existing one, then use "top fix" brackets, that way you'd lose the inch round the sides, good luck.

Answered18 July 2020

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