Rod Desyne CH100-68-86-5P Rosen Traverse Rod, 86-120 inch, Pewter

This is a must purchase if you're looking for a simply designed, functional, traverse rod! I LOVE these for large windows and sliding glass doors since you get the middle support but you can fully open, close, and slide all panels to either side of the rod without the support getting in the way. It was light weight and easy to install - all of the slider attachments come in packet so you can customize how many you want per panel (I recommend at least 10 per panel). I used curtain pins to attach the drapes to the sliders for a more custom look instead of the clips. The sliders glide across the rod with ease and are super easy to use so you can adjust the look and how much light you want coming through your window. The only down side is that it doesn't come in bigger sizes for those extra large sliders but for most standard size windows/doors this is a dream!

It's a nice curtain rod for the money. The curtain holders roll seamlessly along the track with virtually no resistance. But I do wish it had come with options other than the clip hooks. Easy to install. Seems reasonably sturdy. The finials are just plastic. But I was looking for something with very small finials anyway. My only complaint is that even though all of the pieces were wrapped separately in plastic, one of the rods had a noticeable scratch on it. Fortunately it was just on one side and only on one rod, so I just placed that side to the back. Had I not been able to hide it, I would have had to return them.

Easy to install the curtains move very easily.

Not too difficult to install but wish instructions were more helpful. I was glad I ordered an extra 10-pack of sliders. I have standard 8-ft ceilings, installed the brackets with top of bracket 1-inch from the ceiling. I used (5) 32" pinch panels of 95" drapes tacked together to make a single panel. Not perfect but if you get enough panels, the fullness covers the fact that it is not a single one. Handier people can get out their sewing machine and do better. Used "pin-on" drapery pins to attach the drapery panels to the sliders. I ordered a 36" drapery baton rod. 48" would have been a better length but I still have to use my hands as the sliders get hung up a bit, probably where the rod pieces (which are 2 larger diameter pieces on outside and one smaller piece in middle) connect. It is not a hard-hang, but does require some light intervention to get the curtains to fully open or close. Despite that hiccup I am glad the rod is adjustable and made it longer than originally planned so that the drapes stack fully to the side of the window, which required about 30-inches for my application (and an extra drapery panel). You can adjust the rod on the fly depending on the thickness of your curtains and how much stacking room you need. I am fine with the little round finial cap that people have complained is plastic looking. In my application the rod will be basically hidden and I don't think it looks bad anyway. Each end of the rod has a fixed slider that holds the curtains in place for center-open operation. In one-way operation (right to left, or left to right open) you don't need this on one end. See photo--the best options I have come up with are to (a) cover the whole thing with a valance or (b) snip the little plastic thing holding the alligator clip off. If you do the snip thing, you are still left with a rather large plastic stopper that holds the finial in place that prevents the curtain from closing quite as far as I would like. I considered perhaps getting out a hacksaw to make that a bit smaller. In the end I am going with the cornice option, probably based on painted 1x8 board stock. My wishes to the manufacturer: improved instructions with hanging tips, and offer a finial with a smaller stopper and no clip that will work with one-way operation. I probably would have gotten a different color, white or silver if it had been available but with the cornice, the finial and the color won't matter anyway.

I wanted to love this rod, but unfortunately I didn’t open it until my return window passed. The rod is bent and the clips don’t glide across one side of the rod. I purchased it in order to draw curtains across a large sliding glass door, which I now can’t do.

Rod works great, easy to instal. I need more clips as my rod was hung on the longer end and need three curtain panels. I wish we could purchase more of the clips that it comes with; mine came with 30. I could use 60.

Well, unboxing it and evaluating it up close, I will definitely say it looks like cheap quality. If I had paid full price for it (79.38 as I'm writing this review), I'd be mighty tempted to send it back. But I went for Amazon Warehouse's "like new, but in damaged packaging" for almost half that price (42.30). Granted, that had its own issues. It arrived somewhat dented and with one of the stationary end clips broken off. I'm not sure if it was already like that or if it happened in transit due to the horribly inadequate packaging ("damaged" packaging I could handle, but this was super thin cardboard with absolutely no other protective material), and I was tempted to send it back anyway for not exactly being "like new". But the dents don't seem to affect the functionality, and since they're on the top, I don't think they'll be visible to anyone of average height, and I probably would have broken the stationary clip off one end anyway, since I'll be using it for a one-way curtain and it would look silly to have it just hanging there even when the curtain was open. And although the quality appears cheap, it looks fine at a casual glance, which is all most people ever give curtain rods. So, considering what I paid for it and what all the other alternatives appear to cost, I've decided I might as well keep it.

This was a surprising find. The rod was easy to assemble and works smoothly. To quote Simon Powell, "Well, we weren't expecting that!" Recommend.

The install was fairly straight forward and I love the concept of the traverse clips. The biggest complaint I have with this is the quality of the coating. We bought it in black and just from general install of adjusting the size and putting the brackets on, it scratched the rod all over (see attached photo for just one of the many!). It scratched very easily and barely took any effort. By the end of it we had dozens of scratches all over! If it wasn’t such a pain to uninstall and repackage to return, I would have done it. We ended up having to take a black sharpie to it to hide all the scratches as it looked like it was old and used. Very disappointed by that and for that reason will not purchase this brand again.

Looks great. Solved a window treatment problem. Easy to mount. Came exactly as described.