today we're going to talk about how toinstall a dignitet, i believe that's how you pronounce it, curtain wire hangerthat we recently purchased at ikea. we also got a third bracket to allow us torun a longer span of the wire. we're actually going to install this in mywife's art studio. and i believe she's going to use it tohang artwork from. these parts that you can see here are all the pieces thatcame with the kit. the kit does not include screws or wall anchors. you haveto pick out your own for that depending on where you're going to mount it. in ourcase we're going to mount it in a sheetrock wall so i'm going to use anumber 6 nylon wall driller. it's just a
plastic insert and the appropriatescrews that go with it and it's just some of the things that i keep in my kitaround our house for occasional projects like this. you'll also need a phillipshead screwdriver. in my case we're using phillips head screws to mount it with sowe'll need a phillips head screwdriver, a 3/16 inch drill bit, an extension cord, a drill, a tape measure and a couple of the things that i haveare a power driver that i like to use. it just speeds up the installation of thescrews into the drywall hangers. you want to be careful when you're using thisthough and don't over tighten them because it'll strip out these plasticanchors real easy so that's why i also
have a phillips head screw driver. and ialso like to use, it's just an old ice pick that i have in my tool kit. it helpsme to pinpoint where i want to hang a hanger. like in this case i'm able to putthat up on the wall and just punch a tiny hole in the wall or you can punchit into the sheetrock and let it hang there and make sure it's where i want itto be hung. we purchased the wire hanger to put in my wife's craft, art studio ifyou will, and she's showing now on the wall where we're going to hang it. the kit itself comes with enough wire to hang a span of approximately 197inches and in our case we're only going to use about 140 inches of thewire so we'll actually have to trim the
wire. and i failed to get out of my toolkita pair of wire dikes that will be needed to cut this wire because it is a steelbraided wire and it's a pretty tough to cut the wire itself and i don't have awire in the picture either. i've got it over to the side but we'll show you thatwhen we're getting ready to cut it. okay what we've done here is we pickedout approximately how high we want the left bracket to be and i've gone aheadand marked the holes on the wall where i want to drill those out and i'm going totake my drill with a 3/16 inch drill bit and punch these holes into the sheetrock.but what i also noted here, and this is a safety issue. you want to be carefulbecause we're we're mounting this is
directly above a three switch lightswitch. so i'm almost 100% sure that in this wall, there are electrical wiresrunning up into my attic. so you just you want to punch these just through thesheetrock and not go you know, deep into the wall. so we're going to do that now. and all we're basically doing isdrilling a pilot hole for the plastic anchors that screw into these holes. these are those plastic anchors and you just screw them into thesheetrock until they get flush, or as close to flush as possible. and you justwant to make sure they don't strip out
when you're screwing them in. so theseare not totally all the way down but because of the decorative caps that camein the kit, these will be covered once we get the bracket actually attached tothese. so now we're going to take the screws that we selected and go ahead and mount the bracket and put the cap on. okay now i'm going to go ahead andattach the bracket to the wall. i'm using my power driver just to snug them up. you want to be careful when you're doing this and not strip out those plasticanchors that's like i was mentioning earlier. you will take your phillips headscrewdriver and just use it to finish tightening the screws down until theymake a snug fit. and we're
taking our phillips head screwdriver nowand just snugging the screws down until they're tight. you don't want to overtighten these again because you're in a plastic drywall anchor and you don'twant them to strip out. and once you've got those snug and you're happy with theinstallation, you can take your decorative cap that came with the kit and slide it on and snap it into place. and we should be through with the leftbracket installation part of this project. okay what we're doing now ispositioning the right side bracket on the other end of the room from where thespan of wire is going to run. and what we're actually doing is also making sure
it's going to be as close to level inthe room as possible. and what i did was check the measurements from the centerof this post to the ceiling and then also from the center of the post to thefloor, compared to the opposite end of the room and it looks like it's prettymuch spot-on where it is here. i also made sure that the post that doesn'tcome screwed into the base that comes in the kit is screwed in as tight as itshould be and at the bracket where the wire actually goes into is aiming in theright or as close to the right or the correct direction that it needs to beand then i'm going to go ahead and mark the three holes on the sheetrock whereit should be attached to the wall. okay
we've got our third bracket installedand because we're running such a long span of the wire and they don'trecommend that you go over approximately 55 inches for the wire from one supportto another is why we chose to put a center support in. and we went ahead and ran the wire through the post while we were up on our stepladder so we won'thave to get that back out and get back up there to it. and now we're going to aaffix the wire or the cable to the right-hand bracket. and before we do thatyou want to make sure these little plastic caps that they have on here arestill on there and still intact. that's what keeps the wire, the braided wirefrom coming unwound when you stick it
into the socket where it's actuallygoing to attach. and we're attaching to the right side bracket of the kit whichdoesn't actually have any adjustment to it. and you want to make sure that youget the wire actually seated into the bracket all the way when you're affixingit. and there are two allen headed set screws on the bracket, that once you getthis inserted into the post here, the screws are down here and they actuallygive you an allen wrench in the kit to tighten these with. but you want tomake sure that the wire and the little plastic shield goes into the socket allthe way. in this case you can see the plastic shield is trying to slide backout. but we're going to stick that in as
far as the wire will go and you'll feelit seat against the back of the bracket and then if you have a fingernail youcan take and slide that plastic sleeve on down the rest of the way until it'sall the way in there or take the socket wrench and slide it in there or theallen wrench excuse me and then you want to take it and tighten down both of theallen set screws. okay we've got our wire attached to the right hand sidebracket. we've run it through the middle support bracket and we're getting readyto attach it to the bracket on the left hand side. as i mentioned earlier, this isthe bracket with the adjustment. it has this turnbuckle if you will, which is howyou're actually going to tighten the
bracket up. and what you want to makesure first, is that the turnbuckle is open if you will. so you want to havethreads exposed here and here. and they recommend that you allow approximately5/8 of an inch in each location as far as having the threads exposed and that'swhat we have. so now we're holding up our cable and because it's longer than whatwe needed; which we knew it would be, we're getting ready to cut that off. andyou want to pull it, just somewhat tight. you don't want to this is not thetightening part of it but you want it to be fairly tight and what we're going todo is we're going to cut it off about right here so it lines up. so the end ofthe wire if you will lines up with the
end of the bracket right here once weinsert it into the part where the two set screws are. we've also slid theplastic sleeve back to right here from the end of the wire down there and we'regoing to make our cut like i said about right here. okay what we've done is we trimmed our wire off to the appropriate length that we needed. we've inserted it in the socketon this end and i've already tightened the two allen headed set screws down. and i'm going to take the allen wrench, put it in the little hole in the turnbucklehere. and i'm going to start to turn the turnbuckle like so. and what it's goingto start doing its tightening up the
cable. and you just want to check it andmake sure you have it snug as you want it. and there's still some adjustment thereif we need to but it looks pretty good. it looks like we're finished with ourinstallation. thanks for watching!for other diy projects visit my youtube channel.diy adventure