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Hi! I’m David Lupberger with servicemagic.com.
Almost any home finished within the last 20 to 25 years was used with 2 x 4 framing or 2 x 6 as the case maybe and finished with half-inch drywall.
What we’re going to do today is talk about how to hang a picture on a drywall. I’m going to show you four different anchors to hang pictures. You’ll use a different anchor depending on how heavy the picture is. Let me show you how each one works.
Most people have seen this first picture hanger. It’s a simple hook with a nail and you simply drive it into the drywall. That’s all well and good unless the picture’s heavy and it pulls down because remember, this is drywall and that would easily begin to pull away if the picture was heavy.
Now, let’s look at a second way to do this with pictures that are just little heavier. You may have seen this; it’s a screw with a plastic anchor. In this case, I’m going to start the hole with my screwdriver so this is going to go in. I now have a secure way to hang a picture and on the back, you’ll see the anchor actually expanded to really hold it in the drywall itself.
This next anchor will hold pictures a little heavier but you’ll see it’s a screw within the anchor. Let me show you how it works. This anchor is actually self tapping so I actually just started the hole. And once we’re in the drywall, we’ll take my screwdriver and it just screws right into the wall. And if you need a little bit more run, you just back that screw out a little bit and it works very, very well. Now, this last one is a little bit more expensive but you could use safely with pictures over 40 pounds.
To get this started, I actually did a small starter hole in the drywall. Again, you don’t want to make that starter hole any wider than the width of this anchor. This anchor slides in and there’s a couple of teeth that grab. So at this point, I’m just going to start screwing in. On the back side, you’ll see how this works. This anchor is actually collapsing on the wall so that it is a very, very firm anchor but you must also note that this is not something that you can remove afterwards. Once this is in, it’s in. And so those are some of your options for hanging pictures and mirrors on drywall.
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