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Drilled holes too wide for drywall anchors- how to fix?

Depending on what type of wall you have (drywall, plaster, masonry( you could try putting a piece of cardboard or break a wooden toothpick and wedge it in between the hole and the anchor or glue it to ...
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Need to put up curtain rod. How to drill through the header wall?

Other answers will tell you how to drill holes for the curtain rod hangers, but if you are not successful or you don't want to bother, you can use a "tension rod." This is a curtain rod that ...
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Need to put up curtain rod. How to drill through the header wall?

You've hit metal. It could be a re-inforcement piece of steel, or a sheet of steel which runs across the whole header. We (and you) won't really know. If it's the former, you could try drilling ...
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