How To Hang A Large Or Heavy Motion-Picture Exhibit - Using Heavy Duty Hanging Hardware

The critical factors you lot demand to know when hanging a heavy icon present are:

what weight the icon present is
what form of hanging hardware is best for the job
what form of wall you lot are hanging it on.

'How to hang a picture' series

This postal service considers how to hang a heavy picture, why utilisation heavy duty icon present hangers as well as how to attach them to a frame.

It's the minute postal service inwards a serial of posts nigh how to hang a icon present using unlike types of hanging hardware.

Yesterday's postal service was about How to hang a icon present - using D Rings
The adjacent postal service inwards this serial is nigh How to hang a icon present - using mirror plates.

What is a heavy picture?

In obviously uncomplicated terms:

a rattling heavy icon present is 1 which you lot wouldn't mean value twice nigh trying to hang without an extra dyad of hands. The number is NOT whether you lot tin sack elevator it. It's nigh whether you lot guide keep the forcefulness as well as motor command inwards your upper trunk to execute a manoeuvre to claw it onto the wall on ii sides - land belongings it to a higher identify your head.
if you lot would fighting to hang a icon present on your own because of size or weight so you lot ought to live thinking seriously nigh heavy duty hanging hardware - as well as checking the wall!

What's the number amongst walls?

This is the inquiry often non asked past times people whose large and/or heavy paintings autumn off the wall.

INTERIOR Walls / Drywalls

Interior walls are built using a wooden framework as well as some shape of roofing - often plasterboard inwards modern houses. They're non actually suitable for hanging anything heavy. Light as well as medium sized pictures tin sack live hung on dry out partitioning walls using icon present hooks which are hammered into the walls using long hardened or steel pins.

However steel pins are non long plenty nor are they potent plenty to concur heavy weight pictures as well as should NOT live used - unless you lot desire your icon present to autumn off the wall.

Ideally you lot should aim to hang medium sized pictures where the stud frame is (i.e. into woods which provides a to a greater extent than stable structure) but the chances are the location of the wall stud does non stand upwards for where you'd similar to hang your picture. To cheque their location you lot demand to utilisation a stud locator.

My studfinder - invaluable for older properties as well as where you lot guide keep drywalls.

If you lot know the drywall is robust you lot tin sack utilisation a especial anchor for dry out walls.

If similar me you lot alive inwards an older solid you lot powerfulness notice that some of your master copy interior walls are made of lath as well as plaster as well as the dominion for these is you lot absolutely MUST notice the wall studs earlier you lot hang anything. (I've got a shelf at the top of the lathe as well as plaster wall I'm currently facing - nevertheless it has heavy duty shelf brackets inwards every unmarried stud every bit it crosses the wall!)

All the artwork I possess - except for the smaller lighter industrial plant - are hung on brick walls - run into below.

EXTERIOR or charge bearing walls

Domestic homes volition e'er guide keep outside walls as well as load-bearing walls which are suitable for hanging items which are a heavy weight. Typically inwards the U.K. the wall is a solid masonry (brick or stone) wall or a concrete block wall.

These are the walls from which to hang a rattling large or rattling heavy icon present (or mirror i.e. there's a expert argue why rattling large mirror are rattling often institute on chimney breasts). That's because this type of wall tin sack guide keep the longer screw length which powerfulness live required to larn a solid fix.

If you're hanging artwork inwards some other form of infinite you lot demand to cheque what form of wall it is.

Banging on the wall often provides a expert indication. If it sounds hollow so it's an interior dry out wall.
The other line a fast 1 on is to bang inwards a nail. If it's slowly to hammer inwards so chances are it's a drywall. If it takes a lot to a greater extent than attempt it's in all likelihood a masonry wall. If it's actually hard to impossible so it's rattling probable you've hitting concrete as well as alone drills as well as screws (and a heavy duty electrical drill) volition work. The same tin sack live said for expert character outside brickwork.

One farther consideration is the decoration.

If you lot mean value you lot powerfulness desire to movement paintings around a lot I wouldn't favour walls which are wall papered! It's slowly to ready holes inwards a painted plaster wall - but sorting out multiple large holes inwards overnice wallpaper is a fleck of a challenge!

What is heavy duty hanging hardware?

Heavy duty hanging designed to render a to a greater extent than secure fixing to large and/or heavy pictures. They're made of to a greater extent than robust metallic as well as usually guide keep at to the lowest degree ii if non iii screw holes.

It requires TWO bits of complementary hardware:

the heavy duty hanger - this is a apartment steel plate amongst a a hanging loop at 1 goal which is fixed to either side of the dorsum of the icon present frame. It's often plated inwards brass as well as has at to the lowest degree ii as well as often iii holes to ensure a secure fixing should whatever 1 screw operate loose. They are often betwixt 50mm as well as 90mm inwards length. They tin sack guide keep either:

either a D band at 1 end
or a strap hanger amongst a foursquare hanging loop

the heavy duty J hook - this is fixed to the wall as well as is the mate for the heavy duty hanger fixed to the frame. It provides the secure construction over which the D band or loop is hung.

Why utilisation heavy duty hangers?

Hanging is basically every bit expert every bit the weakest betoken inside the apparatus as well as the grade of tension placed on whatever weaknesses. Hence inwards full general it's advisable non to utilisation wire as well as d rings for rattling heavy pictures because it's been known for the wire to create a lot of strain that inwards turns pulls a 1 screw D band out of the dorsum of the frame - as well as the icon present comes crashing down.

Heavy duty hanging hardware prevents:

pictures falling off the wall (so long every bit they are fixed to a robust wall as well as the right hangers for the weight are used). There's no chain or wire involved which powerfulness unravel or line out from the dorsum of the frame. You are also non reliant on 1 screw on either side
the tilted icon present - because they are fixed either side as well as non inwards the middle

How to attach heavy duty hangers to a heavy picture

Basics: You need:

bathroom scales - you lot demand to cheque the weight of the icon present as well as brand certain that the fixings are suitable for the weight. (Get the weight inwards kilos as well as pounds every bit hanging systems vary every bit to which organization they use)
2 x heavy duty hangers - to ready to the dorsum of the frame
2 x heavy duty wall hooks - also called a Heavy duty J icon present hanging hook
OR 1 horizontal interlocking bracket organization fixed to the top of the frame as well as the wall (eg Z30 Z Bar Mirror & Picture hanger)
screws for both the hanger as well as the claw - suitable for the medium they are to live fixed to

the type of screw is dictated past times what you lot are fixing into (eg masonry or wood);
the length of the screw is dictated by

how thick the frame is (i.e. this is 1 of the reasons why larger/heavier pictures demand bigger/thicker frames)
how robust the wall is (eg inwards quondam brick nosotros utilisation longer masonry screws) and

rawl plugs

the size is dictated past times the size of the hole inwards the heavy duty hanging claw as well as thence screw size,
the length is dictated past times the nature of the wall as well as length of screw used.

the right drill fleck for the type of wall (eg you lot demand a masonry drill fleck for masonry walls)
a spirit grade - ideally 1 which is long!
a measuring tape
sticky painters record (the form which lifts off easily)
a soft pencil
a screwdriver
a hammer

Process Two - Bigger / heavier pictures hung on ii wall fixings

Aim: The D band /loop goes direct over TWO static as well as robust hooks on the wall - no icon present wire or chain involved. Fix hanging straps to either side of the frame. Fix hanging hooks to the wall. Hang the strap over the frame.

The procedure is every bit follows (omitting the checks every bit to which form of drill bit/ rawl plug, screw you lot demand to use)

Weigh the picture
Locate the studs inwards an interior wall if non using a sold wall. Check whether the width betwixt the studs is compatible amongst the width betwixt the vertical uprights of your frame. If non review whether you lot desire to relocate the identify to hang.
Select a heavy duty icon present hanger which is the right guess for the weight of the picture
Measure the depth of the frame as well as select the right depth of screws (you don't desire the screws coming through the other side!)
Mark off the same distance from the top of the frame. Make certain that you've taken occupation concern human relationship of the size of the claw it volition live hanging over which is going to fixed to the wall. (You demand to avoid this beingness on show) Try placing the claw on the dorsum of the frame, so identify the hanging loop over it as well as decide where the plate needs to larn on the dorsum of the frame so that the claw is invisible.
Drill a hole as well as screw the hanger inwards nigh the top on either side. Make certain that the the plate is vertical as well as that the D band or loop is positioned at the top of the plate (ready to loop over the hook).
Use the record as well as spirit grade to larn the grade right (i.e. bubble inwards the middle). Mark upwards the wall where the claw needs to larn as well as so drill (and rawlplug) the hole as well as screw the claw to the wall.
Hang the loop or D rings over the claw on the wall

Watch this video which provides a succinct as well as professional person commentary as well as instructions for getting your artwork hung safely

Watch this video (below) if you lot don't guide keep a long spirit grade for how to grade upwards the wall as well as justice the distance betwixt the ii loops as well as thence larn the claw inwards the right identify on the wall (Note the artwork inwards the video is large but non besides heavy or 1 soul to hang and already has D rings attached.) Heavier artwork needs ii people to hang it. She is also hanging on to nails - which is NOT advisable amongst heavy artwork - but the value of this video is the method used for how to larn the measuring right without a long spirit grade (as seen inwards the video above).

Below are to a greater extent than videos which demonstrate unlike techniques used for heavier pictures.

The start video demonstrates how to utilisation locators inwards conjunction amongst D Rings. This is to a greater extent than suitable for medium sized work.

This adjacent video shows you lot how to hang a icon present using a horizontal interlocking bracket system - which makes it much easier to larn the icon present on or off the wall. The regulation is the same but simply using a unlike type of kit to exercise render the claw as well as hanger.

Supplies

UK Picture Hanging Supplies - this site has the wages of telling you lot which screws you lot demand to larn amongst them.
Ook Picture Hangers - includes hangers for heavy weight hanging on a multifariousness of surfaces.
Amazon - Ook Padded Pro Picture Hangers 100 Lb Pk/1
Homebase - maximum weight 45kg brass icon present hooks

This video explains how the Ook hanger works. She's using it on a drywall because of how slowly it is to knock in. The fleck she misses out tin sack live institute on the website i.e.

these are hooks for utilisation on drywall as well as plaster wall surfaces.
The Weight ratings are based on hangers nailed into studs as well as are for comparative purposes only.
Choose a weight rating that greatly exceeds the object to live hung.

More data nigh Hanging Techniques

Lik Hanging Guidelines using D Rings - this explains the unlike D rings as well as procedure used for heavier pictures
The Guardian - Picture This - includes a give-and-take of different types of walls
This post 5 Favorite Picture Hanging Tricks has 1 of my favourite tips - utilisation a post-it banknote to capture the debris when drilling!