DIY numpty fitting blinds

[tenohfive]

I'm trying to fit some wooden blinds to my front room and am close to giving up. I drilled one set of holes but one of them found a cavity and went too deep to put a wall plug in. I started again but ended up hitting something solid and couldn't go deep enough. I figured this was because I was using a normal drill bit and a cheap drill, but I've just tried again with a masonry bit and its not going through at all.

I'm a complete DIY numpty and don't know what else to do, short of fitting them on the outside face (as opposed to drilling up into the slight alcove around the windows.) Or fitting them to the wooden window frame (which I'm reluctant to do.)

Can anyone tell me the presumably very obvious mistake I'm making and how to put it right?

Edited by tenohfive on Monday 25th May 11:14

[robinhood21]

I would imagine that you have found a concrete lintel and an SDS drill would be best at drilling through it. Why are you reluctant to fix the blind to the, I take it, wooden window frame?

[V-spec]

Had the same problem, masonry drill bit didn't help, just got hot.

Borrowed a decent drill from a mate, went through it like butter even with a normal drill bit. You need a more powerful drill.

[tenohfive]

robinhood21 said:

I would imagine that you have found a concrete lintel and an SDS drill would be best at drilling through it. Why are you reluctant to fix the blind to the, I take it, wooden window frame?

I don't know why I didn't initially consider this, I just assumed putting screws into the window frame was a bad idea. Have done it now, after much amateurish fart arsing about I've finally got them up and attached to the window frame.

Thanks
Chris

[robinhood21]

Glad it all worked out fine in the end.

[Simpo Two]

The lintels in my house are steel - no masonry bit will touch them. I dealt with the problem by using a smallish metal drill and then using self-tapping screws to hold the brackets in place.

(mind you that was for curtains; blinds normally go inside the recess)