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By Gardener52 on October 14, 2012
When I was visiting my local Ikea store, I saw their use of this curtain wire set for the first time and I loved it. I have been looking for a way to display pics of my grandkids because the refrigerator is already maxxed out with magnets and photos. I saw great possibilities with this curtain-hanging set, so I bought it.
Somewhere on the package it reads, "Easy to cut." No way. It is difficult. The wire itself is made of many smaller wires rolled together, just like a basket handle or a rope. The first three sets of wire cutters I tried did not do the job. At first I thought it wouldn't make any difference if the wires at the ends of the "rope" were separated -- thought I could twist them back together again, but I couldn't. I couldn't crimp them together, couldn't twist them together, so the "rope" would not insert into the tiny hole of the bracket. I had to recut the edges with great patience, cutting each single wire one at a time, twisting the "rope" gently so that the wires would not unravel or mangel.
Once that was done, the ends of the "rope" did fit into the small holes of the bracket. However, despite how I pulled the "rope" to tighten the slack, I just couldn't level it out. I tightened and untightened screws, and finally, after a couple hours of all this, I just gave up. After all, I told myself, this is only for a photo display. However, the length of my entire display is only 28". One could only wonder what would happen if you had to actually hang draperies from this wire set, seems to me that the slack would be awful.
The next day, I took the remaining wire "rope" to work to ask the head of maintenance to trim off the edges so that I could use it for a picture display in my office. Read more &rsaquo,
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