Hanging Up Heavy Artwork With Little Damage To Wall

Monkey hooks are ideal for hanging larger heavier items with little to no hassle or mess.

Hanging up heavy artwork with little damage to wall.

But that s a super bad idea because duct tape can get too stuck to your poster and damage your wall. Just because you re a renter don t be afraid to put items up on your walls. Use a stud finder to check and if this is the case you can nail or screw directly into the stud to hold the weight of the picture. Weighty textiles and tapestries may need more support and a baseboard will help secure the piece to the wall.

With a little preparation you can do it right the first time and hang your artwork. In almost all cases these disposable hooks will leave no residue or damage on a wall when they are removed. Lighter items up to 10 pounds can be installed using a plastic wall plug. Then just hang your art on it.

Removing wall anchors is a pain and patching the wall after removal never looks perfect. The most well known is probably 3m s command line product which is available in a number of different sizes for various weights of artwork to be wall mounted. The anchors and hooks are separate in the package. The best way to hang your posters is to know what not to do first you could use duct tape.

Choose a hanger that uses several nails for added strength. Select a board that will fit in the rod pocket in the back of the tapestry. You can use a drill or screwdriver to fasten it to the wall. I ve used both a drill and a screwdriver when putting these into the wall and either way works just fine.

Typically when you want to hang a heavy item on the wall where there is no stud you have to get out your drill drill a hole hammer in a wall anchor and then screw in a large screw. If hanging on a plaster wall make sure you use a hanger that uses screws not nails. Hanging a picture shouldn t have to be so hard that you re worried about damaging your walls in the process. You put the hook and anchor together before screwing it into the wall.

As you might imagine solid walls like concrete brick and tile need special techniques to hang objects. If your picture is narrower use a mounting picture hanger to hang it from one point on the wall stud. Nobody wants ripped posters and paint being peeled off either. Hammer the nails into the wall stud then hang your picture on the hanger.

If that doesn t help you could be hitting a wall stud with the hook.