Anyone know of a good way to secure pictures to a wall so vibrations from traffic doesn't send them wonky? (No, @pete, superglue is *not* the answer ) Pretty confident that when I hung pictures when I moved here they were all straight - however, I've noticed a couple of them are looking a little tipsy lately. I can only assume it is as a result of the traffic which passes the house. Very occasionally we get an HGV (meticulously driven) but a lot of the cars zoom through like bats out of hell! I'm thinking that may well be the cause of the pictures listing. Yes, sometimes on of the neighbours may be a little heavy handed when closing their front door, but, it couldn't be that (surely!). Anyway, never mind the cause, I'm more interested in a way of keeping them on the straight and narrow Any (sensible) thoughts?
We use these command strips for pictures now, they are brilliant, rock solid and you can peel them off without damaging the paint: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Picture-Hanging-Strips-Value/dp/B000OF6X48 We used the smaller version to hang up all our christmas decorations, very quick and easy and no marks after you remove them.
for side to side vibrations sticky pads of some sort should be a good option. For Earthquake proof you should use some metal plaques joined to the wall.
They are a bit like velcro, so you can easily pull off the picture and re-hang in case you don't have it exactly level.
I've used these to hold a heavy carbon monoxide sensor on the wall. Works well. Cheapest solution:- two panel pins knocked into the wall just under each of the bottom edges of the picture.
I've got 3 packets of those .... ... .... ... ... ... *some* where! Now, which box were they packed in? (Clearly in one I haven't unpacked yet ) Most of the pictures have been put up on existing hooks/nails. All will change when I re-decorate
I use Command strips for quite a few things around the house , a wonderful invention from 3M To hold pictures square , a small piece off Blue-Tak or White-Tak does the job . I have never known it to mark the wall .
I have used Blu-Tak in my dolls house and it did leave a little oily type mark (maybe that is because it isn't proper wall paper?) - in the long run though, having moved house twice in 4 years, I rather appreciated that little oily type mark. Made it easier to remember where to re-hang things
A year or so ago I was in a village hall that had a sign on he wall. "Please don't fix anything to the wall with sellotape or bluetack" The sign was fixed to the wall with bluetack!!
