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Admiral Huddy
14-04-2008, 09:54
I'm totally useless when it comes to hanging picture hooks:

*tap* *tap* *tap* *CRACK!* *BANG* *OUCH* ***** *** ** ****y nail ** ******* $%&^*()&**&%@@@@!


Bent pins, fallen plaster, big holes and even a fallen picture once.

Teresa has to leave the room before I start laughing her nuts off (she has big nuts)

We have just had our living room replastered and decorated and I had 6 pictures to hang. I put it off all weekend then at 2pm yesterday I took a deep breath, swallowed hard and went in.

I got 2 out of 6. 2 of which are hanging in there but by the time the child minded kids have gone home, I know the whole wall will be down!!

No one else seems to have these problems.. Why do I? What am I doing wrong. My kids are starting to take the piss now.

#sniff#

Please help
Matblack
14-04-2008, 09:58
Drill hole, place rawleplug and nice pan head screw and then hang picture, hammers and nails are asking for trouble with plaster unless you have a little tiny tacking hammer and are very carefull.

MB
Pheebs
14-04-2008, 10:23
Blu Tac + Posters = FTW :D
Admiral Huddy
14-04-2008, 10:31
Drill hole, place rawleplug and nice pan head screw and then hang picture, hammers and nails are asking for trouble with plaster unless you have a little tiny tacking hammer and are very carefull.

MB


Is that where i'm going wrong.. I should use screws :(
Pebs
14-04-2008, 10:43
MB, you're advisinf Huddy to use powertools?! Are you INSANE?! :D
Matblack
14-04-2008, 10:45
Huddy, do you have one of these?

http://blog.simslearningconnections.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/old-hand-drill-small.jpg

MB
Admiral Huddy
14-04-2008, 10:45
Ah you wait to you see my little device I've made at the bottom of the stairs.. then look for the number of attempts in the wall :D I had a pwer drill and sander and everthing!

@ MB

Only by the bed.. What is it?
Matblack
14-04-2008, 10:47
Ah you wait to you see my little device I've made at the bottom of the stairs.. then look for the number of attempts in the wall :D I had a pwer drill and sander and everthing!

@ MB

Only by the bed.. What is it?

Its a hand drill, what we used to use before electric drills were available cheaply

MB
Admiral Huddy
14-04-2008, 11:04
What size drill bit and plug.. That's something else I can never get right. I can never find the right size bit for a plug and right sized screw for the plug.
Matblack
14-04-2008, 11:10
http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=34

http://www.rawlplug.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=16

Have a look at those

MB
Nutcase
14-04-2008, 19:07
MB, you're advisinf Huddy to use powertools?! Are you INSANE?! :D

No, he's approx 50 miles away.

Oh hang on, not far enough.

Are you INSANE?! :D
Pheebs
15-04-2008, 16:37
(pickers here - bah)
Alternatively, if using pins, try taping masking tape to the wall and banging the pin in through that... May make it less likely to crack plaster.
Justsomebloke
15-04-2008, 16:44
If you have those crap pretend walls then you need the rawplugs that open out like butterfly wings.
Way forward is to go to a DIY store & buy 2 drill bits say 10mm (smaller for small hangers obviously) & a whole rake of said rawplugs to suit.
The secret is the drill into the wall about 2mm deeper than the rawplug needs.
Belmit
15-04-2008, 22:15
I seem to remember being told that tapping the tip of the pin/nail with the hammer to blunt it first makes it far less likely to cause a crack.
Admiral Huddy
16-04-2008, 11:39
My pins bend :(
Tak
16-04-2008, 11:41
My pins bend :(

I read that very wrong the first time :o
Admiral Huddy
16-04-2008, 12:14
I read that very wrong the first time :o
maybe you read it right!
Admiral Huddy
21-05-2008, 11:15
My masterpiece stairgate has broken :(
Belmit
21-05-2008, 11:24
My masterpiece stargate has broken :(

Someone call Kurt Russell!
Pebs
21-05-2008, 11:33
My masterpiece stairgate has broken :(

Disaster! It really was a masterpiece too. If you ignore all the holes in the wall :p
Admiral Huddy
21-05-2008, 11:38
Disaster! It really was a masterpiece too. If you ignore all the holes in the wall :p

;D

You weren't supposed to notice them :D I'm going to have a repair job this weekend - thinking hat on!
Admiral Huddy
21-05-2008, 11:45
Someone call Kurt Russell!

Git - I had to check back my spellin'


:)