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Hanging Curtains
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:09 amby Creamcracker
My wife just returned from the UK and I asked her to bring back some "curtain wire." You folks from the UK will know what I mean but I have never seen the stuff on sale in the US. So what you have in the pack is 36" of plastic coated wire.....you screw the "eye" into each end of the wire having cut the wire to the length you want....cut it a little short so that it will stretch to the correct length and be taut when on the hooks. The hooks (or in my case more fanciful hooks than they provide) just screw into the door, one each side correctly spaced. When you make the curtains you put a "tunnel" across the top into which the curtain wire fits. They are easy and cheap to install and give the flexibility you need in a teardrop.
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 9:30 amby S. Heisley
Interesting stuff!
Other than a standard round rod, the closest thing I've seen here is a spring rod, which is a long piece of narrow spring with bent ends that you slip over hooks.
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:12 pmby Laredo
how is that different from clothesline wire?
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 1:46 pmby Creamcracker
Laredo wrote:how is that different from clothesline wire?
Not sure what clothesline wire is but is it a little over 1/8th of an inch with plastic coating over a SPRING wire? The eye is screwed into the end of the wire ...not through the wire but into the actual end...cut it to any length you want...
Philip
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:15 pmby 2bits
Yeah, I've never seen that here before! I used a wooden dowel for a rod.
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:05 pmby Micro469
Picked those up at Walmart up here......We've had them up here for years.My mom used them all the time......
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:43 pmby Creamcracker
Micro469 wrote:Picked those up at Walmart up here......We've had them up here for years.My mom used them all the time......
Yep...I'd expect them to be available in Canada.
Philip
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Mon Aug 03, 2009 6:53 amby bobhenry
And dumb old me just used a screen door spring
Na not really,
it works great and holds the curtain where it is placed.
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Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:37 pmby wlooper89
For those other Little Guy owners, Velcro works great. Sew it along the top of the curtain and it sticks to the fabric on the walls. Just pull it off during the day to make getting in and out easier.
Bill
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Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:35 pmby Gary W
I 2nd velcro. Able to roll curtain up with velcro at bottom. Works very well. Shannon come up with a curtain for the vent to to cut down on the light coming in.It's for those afternoon naps you know.It's big enough to hang down to allow air movement held in place with velcro.