Here are seven clever picture hanging
tips that everyone should know for tip number seven, we're gonna use some
toothpaste for these little hooks. These are separately placed and it makes
it really difficult to get the exact right measurement for where to put your
nails. So some toothpaste can help. I'm gonna use some red
toothpaste in this case, since this is going on a white
wall and we need it to show up. So I'm just gonna put a little dab of
it, there, a little dab of it there, and it helps if you put these
out even just a little bit, if they'll stay like that, There we go. And when it comes time to put the picture
up, I'm gonna face it the right way. Hold it with my left hand on the bottom. I'm putting a level on top just to make
sure I get this nice straight at the right height. And then once
we're level, right there, just go ahead and let that kiss the wall. And then we've got our two marks exactly
where our nails need to be. Next, make sure your picture hooks are
out again, once they're cleaned off. And then once you line up one of
these kind of grabs onto both, and you're good to go. Nice and level For tip number six, we're gonna use command strips to mount
this picture so there's nothing at all left on the wall behind. We wanna be sure to use a picture frame
that has had the mounting hardware removed. So we have a nice clean surface and then
put some alcohol on a paper towel and then make sure everything's
nice and clean. You wanna do this to both the picture
frame as well as the wall next we'll put our command strips together in pairs
and kinda lock 'em in place like this. And then we can separate each one out. So I'm gonna remove the backing from
one at a time and put 'em one here. And then one about halfway down.
Same thing on the other side, there we go. Next, we'll remove this backing so that
we get it ready to put on the wall. Just like before we wanna make sure
everything looks good and level before we stick it to the wall There, Then give it a good push. Now, one thing a lot of people don't know
is you actually want to remove it right away And then take about 30 seconds to
push these all really good against the wall. And then you actually need to wait an
hour for the adhesive to fully set and cure onto the wall. And then after
that hour, we can put it back on. At that point, it should click into place. Now, when you're ready to remove the
picture, it comes off damage free. Just start from the bottom,
pull it off like that. And then these can be removed just by
pulling down on the tab nice and slowly. And off they come. No marks
left behind. Just be careful. It's kinda like pulling a
rubber band. They smack ya. Ow. Tip number five is not making a mess
when you're driving drywall anchors. There are actually three
methods for doing this. If you're gonna have to drill a hole, then you can make a little catch
out of painter's tape. Like this. Another method is just to take a
sticky note, place it on the wall And then fold it up like that. And you can also put some little
wings on it to help catch things. A third method is just to use an envelope
with a bit of painter's tape on it. Now to show you the difference, I'm gonna drill one hole over here with
no catch on it and we'll see how much dust comes down. Okay. Quite a bit. You can see that catches it all. Great. Now you can drive your drywall
anchors in with less mess. Tip number four is using painters tape
to help with these tricky layouts. This stuff is super helpful
for things like power strips, but especially when hanging pictures, what you can do is grab a length of it
that crosses the two areas that need to be mounted. And what I like to do is actually make
sure these are in the right position and then place the painter's tape
at the very top of the hooks. So right there and right
there and push that in there, then use a marker and just mark, right where nail needs to go
in order to get this perfect. Now this can serve as a line for leveling
to make sure the picture is perfectly level when you hang it up too. Now you can use your piece of tape
to put it exactly where you want it. Right about there. Now we know
exactly to where to put those nails And move the tape. You're ready to hang. My wife just
had an awesome idea. She said, why don't you just tape those things
down? So they stopped spinning around. And that is brilliant. So I'm gonna tape
those down. Let's keep 'em in place. Gonna get under there. Right there. Okay. Tip number three is using a fork to help
out when those wires just won't catch on the nail. Have you ever tried
to hang something like this? And the wire just will not grab well, you can actually just place a fork on
the nail or the screw that you're using and use that as a little hook to
catch the wire as it slides down, once the picture or mirror in place,
just remove the fork problem solved. Now just a little bonus tip. You can use some mounting putty on
anything that swivels or swings like this Tip Number two is using a cereal
box to help hang our pictures. Now you may have seen some picture
hanging tools like this one, and they're super handy. They
do exactly what they claim. It says it marks exactly where the
nail goes. And it does just that. The way it works is you hang
your picture on the actual hook. And then once you've got in
place, you just push against it. And it leaves a little mark exactly where
your nail goes to keep it in that spot that you put it. So those picture hanging tools
are available all over the place, but I'm gonna show you how to make one
yourself using just a cereal box and a Thumbtack. That's really all it takes. For this to work the side
of a cereal box works great, but basically you're looking for any thing
that has this thicker card stock type material. So I'm gonna cut along
the seam and I'll cut off my ends. Now you end up with this
and because I have that, I actually want it to fit inside my hooks. So I'm gonna cut a
little tab on the bottom. Once I have that T I'm
gonna use a basic push pin. So I'm gonna push this through.
And then once it's there, you basically wanna put
your push pin underneath, try to center as best you
can poke a hole like that. And then you've got a nice little hook
here that you can work with to test exactly where your picture
needs to go. Now, of course, if you're using a much heavier picture, you may want to double up or even triple
up on these to make sure this is plenty strong to hold what you're mounting. So I put your picture about where you
want it. Let's say we want it there. And then you just give it a
little push. And there we go. There's our new mark right there. We know exactly where this nail goes
to put that picture in that place. We wanted it. Now my number one tip for picture hanging
is tackling the nasty beast that is picture collages or galleries.
These things can be a
beast to do no matter what. And I've got a bunch of tips
that are gonna put together. And it's kind of like the final exam
of all of the tips that we've just gone through. So first thing, a lot of people talk about using
butcher paper to do a layout. The fact is you can go to the dollar
store and pick up some cheap gift wrap, or just use something that you've
got kicking around the house next. We'll lay it all out the way we
wanna see it on the wall. Okay. And I'm just using a regular pen,
Gonna trace my lines on everything. Okay. Once the that's done, we can remove them and set
those aside for just a minute. I'm gonna cut off the extra here
to make this easier to work with. Now, another tip that makes things a lot easier
is take some sort of a straight edge. Doesn't have to be anything super
fancy. I'm just using the, uh, manufactured edge of a poster
board here. And I'm just gonna a, a straight line across here because
I want a line to reference for level Next. We can use any of the methods that we've
used earlier to mark exactly where the nail should go. I'm gonna do the
toothpaste one on this one, lay it down. And if that, uh, toothpaste is
extruding or, or sticking out enough, I'll get that. Perfect. So I know that's exactly where my line
or my nail needs to go lay it out. And then I heard it Pierce
there. There's my hole. Okay. There's my nail hole for that one. Just like that and drop
it down. There it is. There's my little dot. Now we can
take our layout over to the wall. We can use our line that we drew earlier
to make sure that it's perfectly level, Okay, next we take our nails and
drive them right through the layout. Then when we're done, we
can just rip it all down. TA da. Now, as you're looking at
these photos, you might be wondering, did that dude actually go out and take
pictures and do a whole photo session with his power tools?
And the answer is yes. I hope it kind of livened up the video
a little bit and adds a little dork factor to the whole thing.
Now, if you like this video, you might wanna check out my video here.
Seven clever uses for painters tape. Thanks for watching.
