Hello,
The other day a curtain pole fell down without warning. It was an old pole that had been there when we moved into the house so I decided to take the opportunity to replace it with a fresh shiny one. The new one comes with two nylon wall plugs.
I drilled two holes for the plugs but it seems that the wall above the windows consists of very flaky plaster over nothing. The hole is too small to see into but after going through the surface, there doesn't seem to be any resistance on the drill bit. It's as if there's a big hole! Could it be that the builders bricked up to the window and then in the foot or so above the window got lazy and just put plaster over that wire mesh stuff that they use? (This is a bedroom window so has nothing above it).
What is the best thing to use to anchor the curtain pole into the wall? The problem is that the curtain pole bracket has a screw hole in the back and comes with a double-ended thread so that one end screws into the bracket and the other end screws into the wall IYSWIM.
TIA.