Bay window curtain tracks, bent to fit

Why bays need a specialist

A straight window forgives a lot. A bay does not. If a bend sits a few centimetres out, the curtain stacks in the wrong place and blocks the light. If the brackets go into the wrong part of the ceiling, the track sags in the middle within a year. If the gliders are the wrong type, they catch on every bend.

We have been fitting bay window tracks across London and the South East for over twenty years, in Victorian and Edwardian terraces, 1930s semis, mansion flats and new builds. Most of our bay work comes from homeowners who have tried a kit track first.

Every kind of bay

• Angled bays with three or five sides, the classic London and Hertfordshire bay.
• Square bays with two tight 90° corners.
• Bow and curved bays, where the track follows a continuous radius.
• Corner windows and windows that wrap round two walls.
• Ceiling-fixed or face-fixed, depending on your cornice, coving and window head.

How we measure a bay

At the survey we measure each section of the bay and the angle at each corner, then mark where the bends need to fall so the curtains stack neatly against the walls rather than across the glass. We also check what the fixings will go into. Lath and plaster, plasterboard, concrete lintels and steel all need different fixings, and this is where most failed tracks fail.

Bay tracks can be hand-drawn, corded or motorised, and most work with wave or pinch-pleat headings. For heavy interlined curtains we fit metal bay tracks made for the weight.