This rod was sort of disappointing. I believe it is over priced for the cheap quality. It came in 3 parts with plastic inserted in the sections in the wrong orientation and one of the ends was screwed on the wrong piece which had us scratching our heads about how to even get the rod together. The instructions only give steps for brackets. Once we figured out it was a factory error, we were able to fix it but it is really flimsy and bows pretty bad. I don't think it is going to last very long.