Unlike everything else I've purchased from IKEA, the directions on this were confusing, and it did not come with required hardware. I struggled with this for hours and while it says it should more than have held the weight of the curtains I placed on it, it did not. To get the tension high enough to hold up the curtains, I had to make the tension so great that it pulled the wire out of the ends of the product.  Total pain and I ended up tossing it.