Step By Step Easy Procedure & Items Required To Hang Grommet Curtains On Traverse Rod
The users can easily hang grommet curtains on a transverse rod at home by gathering the below-mentioned materials and then following the below-described step by step procedure:
Materials Required
- Measuring Tape & Grommet Panels
- Pole-Style Grommet Curtain Rod & Brackets/Drapery Hooks
- Stepladder And Pencil
Procedure
- Calculate The Measurements: Once the users have their depth of the frame of the window then they need to double it so as to know how deep the curtains need to be. By raising the depth the users will have the abundance of the fabric so as to make them hanged in the long and neat pleats.
- Find Out The Rod Length: The users know the window depth then they need to add the extra eight inches to the calculations for the single framed windows and add the extra fourteen inches for the double-framed windows. The extra length that they have added will let the space on the window side so as to allow the fabric to swing the moment when the users will pull it with the sides. It also makes the hallucination of the big sized windows.
- Find Out The Rod Diameter: Then the users need to calculate the opening of the grommet over the panels of the curtain without counting the metal-framed trim and then minimize a half-inch within that number. This will become the utmost diameter of the rod that the users can select. Then the users need to select up the decoration that will complement the style of the grommet curtain.
- Find Out The Required Number Of The Panels: The users need to be assured that the breadth of the curtains should be twice the window depth. If in case the window is near about 50" wide then they need 100" of the panel curtains and it is very necessary to keep the window counterbalanced. So if the users want to keep the 2 panels on the side then they need to keep the other 2 panels on the different side.
- Find Out The Window Height: The users need to use the stepladder and the measuring tape so as to calculate the area from the window carved strip top and then go upwards four inches and this will be the curtain rod height.
- Hang The Rod: Then the users need to mark down the central portion where the rod will eventually hang. Then affix the brackets as per the directions and then they need to use the level so as to keep the traverse rod even and the straight as well.
- Arrange The Curtains: Finally the users need to thread the rod of the curtain within each panel of the grommet. Then they need to hold up the rod in a way that the curtain right side is facing outwards. Then secure up the curtains to its brackets and then arrange up the curtains as they want to.