Jamz3k

This may seem a fairly stupid question but I haven't ever hung up a picture.

Can you use nails to hang things on a plasterboard wall or will I need to use rawplugs and screws?

mamoon2

How heavy?

Light stuff you will be fine into plasterboard. Heavy stuff you will need plasterboard fixings available from B&Q and the like

David Lock

Much depends on the weight of the picture. Don't use nails as they will just come loose and picture will fall down. Having said that you might get away with standard picture hooks if not too heavy or there are some hooks that just tap into the board but I don't really trust these.

If it's a light to medium picture any hardware shop will sell you some plugs designed to screw into plaster board which take a small screw to hang picture.

If it's a heavy picture you will need to screw through the plaster board and into the batons that the plaster board itself hangs from.

I usually use a pair of screws close to each other to hang mirrors/pictures as this spreads the weight and keeps the picture straight.

The DIY section is read by professionals and not amateurs like me. But I expect this will be moved soon anyway.

dl

Jamz3k

Cheers guys! They are fairly light canvas pictures the missus has bought, you know the sort 3 chavvy pictures you hang in a row. I wasn't sure if they warranted using something as substancial at a rawplug and screw but I'd never used nails/tacks on plasterboard. Off to B&Q I go!

Daryl

You certainly don't need rawlplugs or screws - try something like this

David Lock

Ah - the old invisible hanging hook eh?

dl

kingofturds

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Get some sky hooks failing that some of these

Jamie

Sky hooks lol i have a joke about them told from a farmer rip sam

paulT25

The picture that Foxarm has suppiled are a good fixing for lightwieght items. we call them Pig Tails in the Trade!
I use for heavier items a compresion bolt. Hollow wall anchores.
Made by Bole/ Fischer. Screwfix , under cavity fixings.
You drill the right sized hole 9m/m is the norm. Push the bolt into the hole and use a compresion tool to collapse the sleeve, at the back of the plaster board.
You can then take the bolt out at any time as the sleeve stays in place .
Used these in my job many times . Well worth the money if you have a dry linned home.

Good luck, and please do not just use nails , they will not last as the previous post has suggested.
Paul.

Ant

I thought sky hooks could only be used with glass hammers

ellsibub

measure it out right and just use drywall screws for the weight those pictures weigh they wont go anywhere easy to repair when you take them out aswell

BLU

iTrader: (27)

And finished off with tartan paint

OP if the pictures are canvas stretched over a wooden frame then two nails in the wall will suffice. I've done this with all our 'chavvy ' canvases and alls been fine. Been there over two years btw!

Turbohot

It is good to liven up the house with some pleasant images, fair play.

I think you will be fine with genlty tapping small, thin nails into the walls to hang that sort, but if you rent the house, you may be better off asking your landlord first before nailing or drilling any holes into the walls. Some landlords are very awkward about it, and they may keep your rent deposit just because you made holes in their walls and ruined them.

If you own the house, make as many holes as you like without any fear. Good luck.

Jamz3k

Got them up yesterday, missus is delighted! I even got new pink stones for her fishtank and sorted that all out too for the hallway.....still didn't get any mind!

David Lock

Gay fish?

ditchmyster

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Romance with the stones

Pink diamonds work much better

Jamz3k

Been there, done that! After 5 years of her, I'm pretty much all out of ideas!

bigsinky

he might have a long weight on that one in B+Q . i suppose he could spend his time looking for that new tartan paint