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Curtain hooks

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twiglet77 Thu 03-Sept-26 08:08:47

I’m looking for recommendations for curtain hooks that won’t keep slipping off the rings. My present sitting room curtains are only radiator length and not heavy, though I’ve had cotton velvet ones too, they are pencil pleat with white plastic hooks onto rings on a wooden rail. The sofa is in front of the window so I have to lean over it to open and close the curtains, and nine times out of ten at least one hook will slip out. With progressive hip trouble I find it increasingly difficult to stand on the sofa and reach up to hook them back onto the rings. Has anyone tried metal curtain hooks, and are they better than the plastic ones at staying on the rings?

My daughters changed their bedroom curtains to the eyelet type when they still lived at home but I prefer the rings, I just need more reliable hooks!

MT62 Thu 03-Sept-26 08:22:51

Metal ones are better. They don’t go brittle, much stronger.
I haven’t used hooks long time as I prefer the ring top curtains.
I passed mine on to my mum.

MT62 Thu 03-Sept-26 08:25:39

Just had a look, Screwfix do a pack of hundred for £6.99

Melanie61 Thu 03-Sept-26 08:27:50

Have you tried the long wooden sticks that you attach to the end of your curtain , the first hook and pull the curtain across while standing on the floor and not having to climb up?

Melanie61 Thu 03-Sept-26 08:29:28

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I have no idea where if this link will work!

twiglet77 Thu 03-Sept-26 12:43:27

MT62

Metal ones are better. They don’t go brittle, much stronger.
I haven’t used hooks long time as I prefer the ring top curtains.
I passed mine on to my mum.

Thank you, I’ll get a pack of metal hooks and hope they’ll stay hooked on more reliably!

twiglet77 Thu 03-Sept-26 12:48:20

Melanie61

amzn.eu/d/0aRKFKdX

I have no idea where if this link will work!

Thank you, I hadn’t seen those, although I can reach across the sofa easily enough to draw the curtains, I just have to try and climb on it to put the errant hooks back through the little screw-in eye on the wooden rings. Perhaps these “wands” would draw the curtains across more smoothly than pulling by hand, so I’ll give them a go.

Both my daughters have only blinds in their own houses, and my wooden poles and rings may be old-fashioned but I think they suit my old beamed cottage.