Outside Mounted Blinds Curtain Rod Attachment (Set of 3)

These hooks are perfect for hanging curtains instead of putting hold in the wall! It took my husband about 5mins to put them up!

Very clever design. Very sturdy and smooth, shiny finish. Once I understood how to install them, they were very easy to install. Let me save you some time by explaining the mysteries of how they work and my method for installing them.The brackets don't "clamp" onto the Venetian blind header, they "fit" precisely. When you apply downward pressure to the hook, as in putting curtains on the installed rod, the front leg braces against the header and the back leg braces against the wall. Your blind header must be very sturdy and precisely installed; it will be supporting both the Venetian blinds and all the weight of your curtain installation. Keep that weight in mind. The header must be very firmly attached to and very close to but not touching the wall, a little less than 1/8" from the wall (2mm) is good.Be prepared for this: the front leg of the bracket WILL ROTATE (so frustrating) when you tighten the screw. Plan to tighten the screw while the side of the bracket is tightly pressed against something very hard, like the floor. You'll quickly see which side to press to that hard surface. Use a vise if you have it.You need a #2 Phillips screwdriver; that's a very common size. Remove any decorative thing that's attached to the blind header. Find where the header is screwed to the wall by running a piece of paper behind the header, and put a marker where it stops. My header was fastened to the wall in the center and about 1" from each end. I marked with masking tape.Loosen the screw a bit so you can move the front leg. Rotate the leg if your header is very slim. Guide the bracket down over the header right next to your screw mark. Fit the bracket so that it sits on top of the header, the back leg is flat against the WALL, not the header, and the front leg is pushed back to the header as far as you can press it. You may not get it back as far as you expect because the "corner" inside the leg is curved, not a perfect right angle. If there's an angled gap between the front of the header and the bottom of the front leg, let the back come up a bit and push the BACK LEG FLAT AGAINST THE WALL. When your bracket is fitted properly it will be flat against the wall, resting on the FRONT of the header and on or ABOVE the back of the header, and flat against the front of the header.Carefully slip the bracket UP off of the header without moving the front leg. If it just has to move, don't worry; note where it was and guess. Very carefully push the front leg back a tiny bit more, about 1/16”, or 1mm. Lightly tighten the screw as in the paragraph “be prepared for this” above. Lower the bracket over the header and check for fit. Keep adjusting that push-back on the front leg until the bracket is a little bit difficult to get into place. Adjust each bracket, firmly tighten the screws, place them on the header and place your curtain rod in the hooks. Tighten the screws on the hooks to hold the curtain rod inside the hooks.Things I learned: The brackets impose a design limitation that I didn’t realize until I installed the rod. You cannot push your curtains aside beyond the end brackets. If your blinds just fit your window you can’t push the curtains beyond the glass! I found this to be very disappointing.If the screws mounting the blind header to the wall aren’t very close to the header ends, you’ll probably want to put the brackets at the ends anyway. Therefore, with the ends of the blind header not well supported, your curtain installation won’t be well supported either.You don’t have to tighten the screw while the bracket is on the header! The Phillips head screw is a metric M5 0.8 pitch and you probably won’t find a thumbscrew to replace it. You could try replacing it with an upside-down bolt and a wing nut but my method above solves the very frustrating problems that I had working with the screws about an inch from the ceiling.

Great product but was not what I expected. Thought it fit over top of my sliding glass door blinds frame at the top but it does not. The only reason I returned it.

Wow! Saved me a lot of trouble trying to find a curtain rod that extends out far enough! I made sure when I put them over the top of the blind that they were tight enough and slowly put up the curtain rod with the curtains and held it in place before letting it rest on the brackets over the blind because of ther weight. Everything was sturdy enough to hold the weight from the metal rod with the curtains I purchase which were sheers. It's holding up great! I've been telling all my friends about these. They've never heard of them. Buy these and you will not be disappointed!! Great invention and definitely inexpensive!!

I used this on my apartment window and it worked great. Holds up the thick room darkening curtains and everything.