Blinds vs Lintel

[Kemik]

Yup, don't worry about putting a small hole in a lintel, it won't cause any issues. If it's steel, then pre-drill with drill and then fire a woodscrew in, or use a self tapper like Macca suggested. Or as someone else said, going in through the sides is a much better way of fixing the brackets in a recess as the screws wont be able to pull out, even if you're just able to fix into plasterboard. I always try to side fix where possible.

As in the sides of the window recess, rather than the traditional approach of going in the top of the recess?

 

[PaDE]

Thanks again for all the replies.

I'm assuming now I'm through the plasterboard and there's no more dust that its a steel lintel?

Also, from pic 2 you'll see screwing sideways is probably out of the question. Particularly the other end which houses the mechanism which helps the motor.

Instructions say use a 6mm drill and from the pics you can see its a unique way of installing the blind. Which seems like not much margin of error when drilling through the lintel.

There's a magnet either end of the blind housing which sticks to a metal plate (as pic 1) each end. Then with the blind magnetised in place you screw the black screw cap up tight to the housing (over the hole in pic 2)

I've got an SDS drill so happy to drill the lintel, but unsure about the self tapping part as whatever screw I use (either end) needs to accommodate the collar (whatever its called lol) so the black cap can screw onto it.

More advice grateful, thanks.

 

[PaDE]

I ended up going the easy option

Contacted a local blinds company and they quoted £25 to fix. So one happy customer and an easy £25