If you have a metal curtain rod and it is looking a little rusty there are a few ways to fix this without having to go out and buy a complete new rod.
For all the cleaning tips you will have to take the rod down from the wall brackets, this will make cleaning it so much easier.
- Using a steel wool, completely clean down the curtain rod, then sand it down with some metal sand paper. Coat it in rust primer paint, then use an oil based paint to give it a final coat.
- Use a car chrome polish or car wax to give it a good rubbing down, this should remove surface rust and the wax will make your curtain rings slide easier with less friction.
- Mix the juice from a lemon and some salt together to make a kind of ‘metal exfoliate’, this is a natural way to clean rust.
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