Hanging Art On Cinder Block Walls

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.

Hanging art on cinder block walls.

3 most common way to hang pictures on concrete wall method 1. Facility managers will refuse to avoid drilling the material in multiple locations overtime. The anchor used to hang heavy objects on a cinder block wall must grip the sides of the anchor s pilot hole tightly. Attach wall adhesive to a collection of decorated clothespins and apply directly to cinder block walls.

Try getting your hands on some long pieces of cork strips and attach them to cinder block walls using push pins to display artwork. Use a one piece expansion anchor on solid concrete and a metal sleeve anchor on hollow concrete. Also find out how much the art object weighs and choose anchors that will support its weight. Anchors with heavy duty spring loaded wings hold objects against the hollow part of a cinder block and wedge style anchors hold objects against the cinder block s solid webbing.

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. Obviously you re not going to drive a nail into a block wall and put in a picture hangar. Adhesive wall hooks aren t strong enough and don t adhere well to concrete. This article was co authored by jason phillip jason phillip is a handyman specializing in mounting and hanging objects onto walls.

You just need the right tools. Hanging system for masonry block walls hanging art on concrete masonry or concrete block walls is problematic. Before hanging anything on your concrete wall determine if you have a hollow or solid concrete wall.