Heavy Duty Wardrobe rail

[Im a BusyBee]

My husband 'built in' our wardrobes and used old (thick) wooden curtain poles for the rails, rather than buy anything when they looked so strong. We have always had trouble with the rails in wardrobes, i always manage to bend or snap them! The curtain poles worked fine but we needed 3 rails and only had 2 poles. He bought a new curtain pole for this 3rd rail and at 2.00am this morning the bloomin thing snapped and all my clothes are still on the floor!!! It appears the new 'wooden' poles are not proper wood as the old ones were. Can anyone tell me what is exceptionally strong and can be used as wardrobe rail? or any idea on how to overcome this problem? Thanks

[rowanwitch]

I used copper plumbing pipe in the past and steel tubing remeber to fix supports mid way along if the rail is more than a couple of feet from end to end it you are going to load it with a lot of clothes

[The Builder]

Busy ... you need some proper chrome tube. If you get the round one, use the 25mm rather than the usual 20mm.

Or, have a look here............

http://www.ironmonger...ect.co.uk/Search/rail