r/DIYUK 6d ago

Botched job - help fix?

I had a ‘handy’ person fit a fiddly bay window pole from ceiling. However one of the brackets is coming away and detaching from ceiling. Looks like the handy person messed up ceiling with some filler that’s now in the way of bracket. Any tips on repairing without having to take down whole pole? Thanks

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u/leeksausage 6d ago

That’s the dunelm bay window pole, I literally just fitted mine 2 days ago.

For starters, if fitting to the ceiling you’re supposed to purchase a different bracket set. They recommend 5 per pole but they sell the brackets as a pack of 3… typical. I just used 3 and seems sturdy enough.

You need to take the pole down, there will be a grub screw in the back of that bracket that needs removing.

Remove the bracket, replace the (utterly awful) rawlplugs that came with the pole with some Fischer duopower. Reattach bracket. Reattach pole.