Great Reasons to Buy Our Slimline Bay Window Curtain Tracks!

Importance of Accurate Photos for Curtain Orders

Hi, I'm Lee Stevens from Ezecurtains.co.uk and I want to talk to you about photos, photos that you'll send to me through the contact form when you're making an inquiry, or photos that you attach to an order like a bay window curtain track order. Now, we need to see a full shot of the bay. So we need you to stand on the far side of the room so you can get the top of the window in where the track's going to fit, also, the full windows ill around the bay, and out each side of the bay if the curtains are returning outside of the bay.

Tips for Capturing Essential Window Details

Then you may want to take a second shot of the windowsill. If you've got curtains hanging like here, pull 'them to one side, take a shot of the window sill, especially on the end because that's often critical to how the bay track is going to fit. And also how your curtains are going to hang. So below this video you will see some dos and don'ts of the right ways to do your photos.

Conclusion and Additional Resources

So, please have a look, and hopefully this has helped you. And thanks very much for watching.

Hi. I'm Lee Stevens from ezecurtains.co.uk

Understanding Returns in Curtain Tracks

And I want to talk returns to you. We talk on this website about bay returns and we talk about curtain track returns.

Defining a Return

Now, a return is like up here.

Now this, the track comes out of the bay and returns onto the wall into the room. Now, that's a return. Now, if you've got a bay that may be a five-sided bay and you've got a bit of wall here on the side, that is not a return. That's just an internal bend. It only returns if it comes out onto the wall here.

Sizing Your Returns

Now returns can be pretty much any size you want them to be except there needs to be a minimum of fifteen centimeters. So we've got a flat track here that is on a wall-fixed bracket it can clip comfortably back into the bracket. If it's curved, then the bracket won't connect into the back of the track. Now, some people want their return to fill the entire space on the wall, on the side of the base. That's absolutely fine. So you can have a big return, but typically you'll have a return around about twenty centimeters coming out of the corner of the bay across to the side here.

Conclusion and Ordering Guidance

So I hope that's useful, and now you know what we need and what we call a return. When you're ordering, you'll understand what we're talking about.

Introduction to Ezecurtains

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Overview of Curtain Track Options

And I want to talk to you about our slimline tracks, straight tracks, or bay tracks. And we've got an option which is brakes that you can add to your order. So what are brakes and what do they do? So let's go and have a quick look.

Understanding Curtain Gliders

Okay. I've unhooked the first couple of hooks on the curtain just to get it out of the way, and we've got the first glider here now with the curtain draw rod in. You can order these when you're ordering your track should you want them. And we use them for opening and closing the curtains. I'm using them pretty much on all the curtains that we sell on this website and we fit ourselves.

Explaining the Brake Mechanism

Right. Let's get back to the brake. We've got the brake here which effectively is a glider and it's got a springy bit on the top that creates the brake. This goes and sits inside the glider channel and rubs along the top and creates a little bit of friction but not so much friction that it makes it difficult opening and closing your curtains.

Installation of Brake Gliders

Now this glider, if we look or the brake glider, we look side on, we've got little grooves that fit into the channel. And also if I hold it this way, you can see that it's offset. So there's a front and a back. And this side here is the front we want facing forwards on the track. So let's go and have a look at how simple it is to get this in position on your track now. And it's going to be the leading glider on each side of your track.

Positioning the Glider Channel

Okay. Just reinforcing that we want the glider channel to be facing to the front of the track and not off this side here. That's the back of the track. So we get the little springy bit inside the glider channel.

Securing the Brake Glider

We push the back groove into the track so it's at an angle now and we use our finger to swing it and pop it forward. Now that brake glider is in position.

Impact on Curtain Functionality

Now let's have a quick look at how it affects the flowing of the curtains.

Demonstrating Curtain Operation

Right. So we got the curtain hooked back in now, and we've got the leading glider, which is the brake glider hooks in and if we push the curtains back, they stay exactly where you want them.

Benefits of Using Brake Gliders

We open them around here, they stop exactly where we leave them. So even though it's only a little bit of friction, it doesn't cause any problems on the opening and closing your curtains, but can solve some annoying problems of the curtain creeping open after you've put it back in the open position.

Ordering Options for Brake Gliders

So again, you can order these with your curtain track or you can order them as a separate item if you decide that you want them afterwards.

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

So, I hope that was useful.

Introduction to Slimline Curtain Tracks

Hi. Welcome to Ezeurtains. And I want to chat with you about our slimline curtain tracks. Bay windows, straight, we can bend them to fit pretty much any bay window shape.

Benefits of Slimline Tracks

And there are two reasons why you choose the slimline track. One is you just like the look of the slimmer profile. And two, sometimes there are practical reasons such as inward opening windows or you may have shutters on your windows, and the shutter doors need to open underneath the track. It's a really smooth working track and will hold pretty much any size domestic weight curtains, wide, long, blackout, doesn't really matter. So let's have a look at how well they move across this track.

Demonstration of Curtain Movement

So there you go, really smooth working curtains. So any size like I said before, and they will glide like a dream.

Overview of Track and Bracket Options

Let's have a look at the track itself and the bracket options that go with this track. So we've got the, track here and it's a real sturdy track and you can barely put any twist on it. And once this is fitted to the brackets, wall or ceiling fix, it there's almost no flex in it at all.

Detailed Bracket Specifications

Now the brackets, we've got three wall brackets here. We got the four and a half centimeter, seven and a half centimeter, and the ten centimeter brackets so you can project further off the wall should you need to. And then finally, we've got the TopFix bracket here that's a really neat slim bracket and this has a little cover that covers it so that once it's fitted you don't see the screw fixings.

Purchasing Information

So if you decide you would like to buy one of these tracks, you can get a price to fit your window perfectly on the calculator at the bottom of this page.

Enhancing Aesthetic Appeal of Brackets

Okay. So we've got the track fitted up to the ceiling now and we want to make those brackets look a little bit more attractive. So we have a cover here that we can slide on like so, and then just simply push on a locking position, and it just makes everything look so super neat, so that's it.