With over five years of experience professionally mounting and installing objects through his company jason s handyman services jason s work includes working with mounting window ac units designing art gallery walls installing kitchen cabinets and replacing.
How to hang paintings on cement walls.
Cement or adobe walls add an industrial chic feel to homes.
Cement walls can give your home a modern feel you may find attractive but cement walls can make it difficult to hang a picture or a wall decoration.
3 most common way to hang pictures on concrete wall method 1.
The adhesive hooks are an outstanding solution because they don t require we drill holes in the wall.
Concrete block is a sturdy building material but it can present a slight design challenge when it s time to personalize a space.
Keep the middle of the painting about eye level somewhere around 5 foot 8 inches to 5 foot 10 inches.
This article was co authored by jason phillip jason phillip is a handyman specializing in mounting and hanging objects onto walls.
9 1 kg are considered too heavy for hanging on a wall without proper reinforcement.
Light weight pictures can hang from adhesive hooks.
Hold your art painting up against the concrete wall and mark where you want the center of the art to hang.
There are plenty of options here including adhesive that can safely be removed from the wall without damaging the paint.
You do not have to live with bare walls just to enjoy the feel of authentic cement walls in your home.
But fear not there is a way to spare these kinds of.
While most adhesive hooks are strong enough to keep your pictures on the wall you must buy a couple capable of holding about 8 pounds or 3 6kg of weight.
Pictures that weigh over 20 lbs.
The simplest way to hang pictures on the wall is to hammer a nail into the wall.
However hanging pictures on a concrete block wall is not as difficult as it might seem.
If your walls are brick simply drill a hole with a masonry bit hammer in a plastic wall plug or some expansion spaghetti and insert the screw.
With the right products or a little bit of ingenuity you can hang artwork without drilling into the wall.
It s hard to hang anything from pictures to art from them.
Don t let concrete walls stop you from hanging your wall decor though.