I need to put up 3 curtain brackets (Left, Right, Centre) above a floor to ceiling new build window.
Unfortunately previous owner drilled pretty big holes using Redidrive screws. The holes must have widened over time and I also want to use different brackets. The existing holes are about 8mm across. Annoyingly the flat is freshly painted but I didn't realise how loose they were until the painter put them back up, otherwise I'd have got him to fill them.
The outer ones are fine as I'm going to go wider than the original holes (so will just clean, polyfill, sand, and paint them). But I'll need to fill the central one before redrilling (see photo).
The new brackets I have (see photo) requires 3 small screws that will go around the edge of the original hole once filledn (you can see where I've marked the 3 dots).
Done a fair amount of research and sounds like polyfill won't cut it. Some people say use an epoxy resin, but I have no idea which exact one to buy and how to fill it.
Recommendations of a simple solution very welcome. Note: If you could please link to exact products too that would be helpful, as I have no idea what I'm doing!
Thanks!
Updates/Edits: Guessing it's plasterboard (see new images attached). Sounds like for plasterboard you need longer screws for this from a quick Google. The screws the bracket came with are about 3.5cm deep.
Unfortunately previous owner drilled pretty big holes using Redidrive screws. The holes must have widened over time and I also want to use different brackets. The existing holes are about 8mm across. Annoyingly the flat is freshly painted but I didn't realise how loose they were until the painter put them back up, otherwise I'd have got him to fill them.
The outer ones are fine as I'm going to go wider than the original holes (so will just clean, polyfill, sand, and paint them). But I'll need to fill the central one before redrilling (see photo).
The new brackets I have (see photo) requires 3 small screws that will go around the edge of the original hole once filledn (you can see where I've marked the 3 dots).
Done a fair amount of research and sounds like polyfill won't cut it. Some people say use an epoxy resin, but I have no idea which exact one to buy and how to fill it.
Recommendations of a simple solution very welcome. Note: If you could please link to exact products too that would be helpful, as I have no idea what I'm doing!
Thanks!
Updates/Edits: Guessing it's plasterboard (see new images attached). Sounds like for plasterboard you need longer screws for this from a quick Google. The screws the bracket came with are about 3.5cm deep.
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