A double curtain track carries two curtains instead of one: a sheer or voile on the rail nearest the glass, a lined drape on the rail behind it, both hanging from the same ceiling fixing. R&C supplies it as a twin PVC extrusion with matching end caps and ring runners, cut to the lengths your order needs.<\/p>\n
This is the rail for the room that has to do two jobs with one window \u2014 let daylight in without putting the room on show in the afternoon, then black it out at night. Doing that with two separate tracks means two sets of fixings, two cutting lists and twice the chance of one of them being set at the wrong projection. A double curtain track does it with one line of fixings and one line on the quotation.<\/p>\n
A double curtain track runs its two channels parallel on a single moulded body. The front channel takes the sheer, the back channel takes the drape, and the gap between them is what stops the two fabrics touching when both are drawn. That gap is the whole point: two curtains on the same plane rub, catch and wear, and no amount of careful hanging fixes it.<\/p>\n
Because both channels sit on one section, the fixing line is shared. That halves the drilling on a concrete soffit, halves the anchors, and means the two curtains are always at the same height \u2014 which on a long hotel corridor is the difference between a run of windows that reads as one installation and a run that looks like it was done by three different crews.<\/p>\n
The rail is hand operated. Runners are pushed along each channel independently, so the sheer and the drape open and close on their own. Nothing is powered, nothing is paired, nothing needs a handover briefing.<\/p>\n
A double costs more than a single and takes a wider fixing footprint, so it has to be justified. It is the right specification in:<\/p>\n
Where the window only ever carries one curtain \u2014 a corridor sidelight, a store room, a stairwell \u2014 a single rail does the same job for less. That is what our PVC single curtain track<\/a> is for, and it is the better quote in those rooms.<\/p>\n The front channel is the one nearest the window, and it takes the lighter fabric. That is deliberate: a sheer is what gets opened and closed most during the day, and putting it on the front channel means it can be drawn without reaching past the drape.<\/p>\n Both channels take the same runner, which matters more than it sounds. One runner type across both rails means one spare part on the van, one line on the stock sheet, and no argument on site about which bag the small runners came out of. The ring hangs below the channel, the curtain hooks onto the ring, and the runner body travels inside the extrusion.<\/p>\n End caps close both channels at each end. On a double curtain track the caps are a single moulding that covers the front and back together, which is why they have to be ordered with the rail rather than sourced later \u2014 a twin cap is not two single caps pushed together.<\/p>\n The choice is the same one buyers face on single rails, and the answer is the same: it is about duty, not quality.<\/p>\nSheer and drape on the same bracket \u2014 how the two rails work<\/h2>\n
PVC double track or aluminium double track<\/h2>\n