Need to install a bar to hang my clothes from in a new wardrbe. The bar will be approx 1.4 metres long My previous experience has not been good - B & Q's bars have tended to deform under the weight of the clothes and slip out of their supports.
Can anyone suggest what to use here, and where to get it?
Many thanks
ItsChris
This tends to be a problem if the bar is too long and unsupported.
Is it not possible to support the bar from above? You can get brackets which will do this job, and they screw up into the shelf immediately above.
Incidentally, you wouldn't normally use a bar, you'd use a tube because weight for weight tubes are invariably stronger. However I suspect that's what you meant anyway.
Andrew
The usual 3/4" chromed metal tube is perfectly adequate - unless your clothes are exceptionally heavy - but will need supporting in the middle. Supports which slide over the bar, and screw to the top of the wardrobe (or to the shelf over the hanging rail) are readily available.
The message from Andrew McKay contains these words:
1.4 meters is /very/ long for an unsupported clothes rail. If you look at shop clothes rails of this length they're made of far sterner stuff than this.I'd go with the idea of supporting the rail in the middle - or if you're hanging a row of duffel coats even twice in the middle.
Plenty of the sort Andrew mentioned here...
You can get a 1 inch chromed tube with 1 inch fittings from most DIY sheds. this will take more weight than the ordinary 3/4 inch tubes, but remember to put at least one support in the middle fixed to the shelf above.
Conduit and hospital saddles.
1 1/2 inch brass cased tube, from architectural ironmongers. My clothes have been hanging from a 1.8 metre length for over twenty years, no centre support and it doesn't sag.
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