Choose A Slimline Wave Bay Window Curtain Track For That Contemporary Look

Introduction to Ordering Bay Window Curtain Tracks

Hi, I'm Lee Stevens from Ezecurtains.co.uk, and it's so easy to order a bay window curtain track to fit your window perfectly on this website. So what you need to do is you need to just get the total width of your bay. So if your track's within the bay only, you just measure around all the sides within the bay.

Measuring Your Bay Window

Enter that total figure into the box. If it's returning out of the bay, then start your measuring from out of the bay, within the bay, and out the other side. Enter that in the box. The next step is how is it going to fix?

Choosing the Fixing Method

To the ceiling, to the wall, combination of both? Click the one that you think that suits your bay window and how you think your track's gonna fit. The third one is a dropdown menu for your bay shape. Now, click on the items on there.

Selecting Your Bay Shape

It'll open a little image to show you the bay shape. If it doesn't look like your bay shape, then click on another one until you find the one that you think looks closest to your bay shape. Then there are a few other items underneath that you'll click on. Finally, at the bottom of the form, you'll enter your personal details and you'll make payment.

Finalizing Your Order Details

You'll receive an email, which will then have a link in it taking you through to the final measuring page. This is the second part of the process, and this is where you'll give us all the exact angles and sizes for each side of the bay. We can work out how to make your track to fit perfectly. So that's it.

Customer Support and Assistance

Have any questions as you move along through the process? Then please just get in touch and ask us, and we'll help you through.

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.

Introduction to Ezecurtains

Hi. Welcome to Ezecurtains.

Understanding Wave Curtains

Wave curtains, it's about the gliders on the track that create the wave form on them and you can see an image here how there's a little cord in between the gliders. So as you pull one along, it then pulls the one behind it and they're all spaced evenly across the track. So as we pull it across here now, it creates that lovely undulating effect across your curtains all the way from top to bottom.

Role of Gliders in Wave Effect

And that's all created with the gliders, not necessarily the curtains, albeit we have wave tape on these curtains but it's not the tape that creates the wave effect. It's the gliders in the track.

Adjusting Curtain Hooks for Optimal Spacing

Now it's all about the spacing on the hooks on your curtains as well. So I'm just going undo a few hooks here and show you on the back how this works.

Achieving Even Waves Across Curtains

Your wave gliders are going to be set in from the leading edges and outside edges of your curtains about six, seven, pockets, then the rest of the hooks are going to be evenly spaced across. That means that all your waves are going to look even across the curtains backwards and forwards, which gives you that really pleasing effect.

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

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

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 Curtain Installation

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

And I get lots and lots of people telling me my ceiling isn't strong enough to support a ceiling fixed curtain track. I need to know where the joists are so I can fix all my brackets into the joists. Your ceiling almost undoubtedly is going to be strong enough because I've fitted thousands of these Bay tracks over the thirty years almost.

And also, the joists are never going to be in the right place to fit all your brackets.

If you watch my other fitting videos, you'll see how I approach this. You don't need to know where all the joists are because they're not going to be in the right place. So you can hear that's hollow. All ceilings are hollow or almost all ceilings, unless you've got a concrete ceiling, but almost nobody does in a domestic dwelling. So if you're hanging domestic sized curtains, even big ones, blackout, floor length, really wide, as long as they're not like four meters long and six meters wide, and you truly are super heavy stage curtains, but this website is not about those kind of curtains and those kind of tracks. It's about domestic sized curtains, domestic sized windows.

Fitting the Curtain Track

So you're going to present your track to the ceiling. You're going to screw all the screws in. If you have bad fittings, then you use the plugs that we supply. The plugs we supply with the screws will suit ninety five, ninety eight percent of the fittings that you need to do and give you a firm enough fixing.

You're almost certainly when you're doing all the brackets up into the ceiling and just driving the screws in, you're going to hit some timber in the ceiling. Fantastic. You only need to worry about the ones where you don't. The ones where you don't, then if our plugs are still not giving you a firm no fixing, which is highly unlikely, then there's a couple of other fittings here that we use.

Alternative Fittings and Tools

And you can find the links to these in this video. And also, if you're watching it in the right place, you'll see the links below the video.

Now use these. We only use these if our regular fittings fail, and that's almost never.

But it's handy to know where they are, where you can get them from. I get both of these from Screwfix. Nice and cheap. So start with the basics and then move on to these if you have to. Now at the end of the track, on each end, just within the ceiling, just within the bay, there's going to be a beam across the top of the ceiling.

Dealing with Metal Lintels

Now, almost certainly, in most houses now, you're going to find it's a metal lintel. If it's timber, fantastic. You just drive the screw in, you've got a good grip. If it's metal, you're going to need to use the drill bit that you can find in the link in this video that takes you to Screwfix.

And it's a three and a half mil high speed drill bit, and it will cut pilot hole into the lintel. You'll be able to use the screws we supply to then drive directly into that hole without using your plug. That will grip. If you've got a track that returns out to the bay on each side, almost certainly, it's going to be going into brickwork.

Fixing to Brickwork

So use the plug supplied, six mil masonry drill bit, drill the hole, fix your wall fixed bracket on the return.

So that's fundamentally it. Don't worry. You don't have to go upstairs and pull the floorboards up. You don't need to start looking, you know, where every individual joist is because they're not going to be in the right place to support your track.

Final Installation Tips

You're going to be moving your brackets to where the joist is, but it's not going to give your track the support to suspend your curtains from this track. So forget about that. Just follow the guide the fitting guide, and they will show you how to fit our tracks. And then also just use the links in this video to get the bits that you may need.

You don't have to buy all these straight away. Just nip out your local branch if you need them. But almost certainly, you're not going to need them other than these three and a half mil drill bits for piloting the lintel across the top. So your last bracket on each side before your track turns out to the bay.

If it's not turning out to the bay, then the end of the track here is going to be nice and secure to hang your curtains because it's going to be fixed into that metal lintel. And if it's a wooden lintel in a really old house, then fantastic. Don't need to do any drilling. You just screw the screws directly in and you got a super solid fixing.

Conclusion and Support

So I hope that helps. And if you have questions as you move along ordering, fitting, then just get in touch.

Introduction to Bay Window Ceilings

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

And I want to talk to you about battens on bay window ceilings.

Debunking the Need for Wooden Battens

People talk to me all the time about, do I need to fix wooden battens to the ceiling in my bay? And the answer is absolutely not. They just look plain ugly, and they do not achieve anything. You might as well fix your track directly to the ceiling. Our tracks are designed to be well fitted to ceilings in bay windows.

Alternative Fixings for Plasterboard Ceilings

You're going to find that mostly you're into plasterboard in ceilings, which is fine with the plugs that we supply. Now if you had a spot that our plugs are not doing the job, then there's alternate fixings. And there's a video that you can see a link to here that shows you what those alternative fixings are and how to use them.

Fixing Techniques at the Bay's End

When it comes to the end of the bay, and just before you leave the bay on each side, assuming you're gonna return out onto the walls, you're gonna be fixing into the lintel over the top of the window.

Again, the fitting videos discuss that in more detail.

Final Recommendations on Installation

When you return out to the bay, if you're going to return out onto the walls on each side of the bay, you're gonna be fixing almost certainly into brickwork. So they'll be nice and solid fixings. So when it comes to the wooden battens, don't use them. Fit directly to the ceiling. Our tracks are designed to fit flush to the ceiling, and they're really sturdy, solid, and you won't need to use wooden battens. So I hope that was useful.

Introduction to Ceiling Fitting

Hi, I'm Lee Stevens from Ezecurtains.co.uk

And I want to show you what to do if you're fitting a track to the ceiling in a bay or a ceiling in a room, and you're struggling to get a good fixing.

Alternative Fixing Method Explained

Here's an alternative fixing that you can use. So let's go and have a quick look. Okay. The fixing we're going to use is a toggle bolt. We've got a screw head on this end and then we've got two little wings that are spring loaded on this side, and they'll pop open once we go through the hole that we're going to drill into the ceiling with an eight mil drill bit. So let's go and have a look at that.

Preparing the Ceiling for Installation

Creating an eight millimeter hole in the plasterboard ceiling ready to fit the, toggle bolt.

Installing the Toggle Bolt

Okay. We've got the, regular track here with the bracket on ceiling fix. And we've got the toggle, with the wings on the top here now. And we've got this screw head inside the bracket. So we're going to present this up to the ceiling now and pop it into that hole we've just created.

So let's go and have a look at that.

Okay. I've got the wings on the toggle folded backwards, and we're popping it up now. And I could hear the wings pop open. And if we pull this down now, the wings are holding it up in there. So we're going to just use a driver now to tighten up this. And you need to pull down on the track and the bracket.

Securing the Track to the Ceiling

And there we go. That toggle bolt has now firmly fitted that track up to the ceiling.

Do that for any brackets that you're not happy that are completely solid up to the ceiling.

Final Thoughts on Installation Techniques

Okay. So we got that track now, and I'm really pulling down from the ceiling, and that is a solid fixing. It would take an enormous amount to break that to fixing free. So only use these if the red plugs we supply are not doing the job well enough, then get a packet of these from Screwfix. You can find the link in the video just here, to the ones that I use, and, you'll have no problems at all fitting your track to a ceiling in a bay or just over the top of the window on a straight window. So I hope that was useful.