Fixing Curtain Poles

Lucky to get away with what?

Masonary bit in a hammer drill with ear defenders. Some cursing & swearing.

Or a rawldrill / rawltool and a hammer for the nostalgic and patient.

Or alternatively an oversized plank of wood to bypass the lintel so that normal fixings can be made into brick etc...

I had a couple of bad holes like that. Got about an inch in (aiming for

I tend to try and go above the lintel.

I half expected most of the plaster to drop off or the hole to get progressively larger and larger in diameter.

Yes, 'fond' memories of many hours trying to do a few holes. The Makita combi won't touch these lintels but the Lidli SDS takes a few seconds per hole.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember PeterC saying something like:

And the kids today would'nt believe you.

Ditto. Such effort for so little reward - mind you, it made one develop an aptitude for the easier solution/better positioning, etc.

SDS has turned us into softies. I love it though.

If you think about it - its the same principal as an SDS - thump, turn, thump, turn.

Someone here worked out the joules involved a while ago.

The mere mention of the words "curtain poles" make me wanna head for the shed {that's the one at the bottom of the garden, not the one at the retail park ;) }

Same here. I like the curtains to be close to the wall, so I bend in the end of each rail and also have some overlap.

I fit dozens of the buggers. Last week I fitted 10 window blinds (into the soffit) & 5 large curtain poles in the same house.

Thank God for SDS drills :-)

Until you hit a catnic ;)