Drilling into drywall and realizing you did a load of laundry during peak hydro hours.
Hanging a clock on brick wall.
If the room you re in has a lot of open space or a tall ceiling you may want to hang the clock slightly higher to draw eyes from all areas of the room.
The general rule of thumb is to hang your clock at eye level.
Drill a hole into the wall appropriate to the size of the screw anchors.
Hanging something on brick shouldn t give you a stress twitch you have two options and both of them are easy.
There are only 2 things more terrifying to a homeowner than drilling into brick.
For instance if your screws are 0 75 inches 1 9 cm long.
Get whichever fits your bricks better.
When you are positioning a wall clock you may wonder how high to hang it.
Anchors work in drywall and brick or masonry walls.
When a brick wall isn t suitable for clip on hangers another option is ook s plastic hardwall hangers three for 2 39 at home depot each hook has three thin nails pre started into the back.
Drill slightly deeper than your screws anchors are long.
Choose metal anchors instead of plastic for securing the clock to a masonry or brick wall.
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Both the style that holds the brick and the style that grips the open mortar space.
Hammer your masonry anchor in the pilot hole you drilled.
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Reverse the drill bit when you re done to get the debris out of the hole.
How to hang a heavy item on our wall in basic sheetrock.
They also do make special picture hooks that are designed to nail into brick and cement surfaces however not knowing just how heavy and large the clock is the anchor route looks like the way to go.
Ideally a hammer drill works best but for a small hole as you need and drilling into the soft mortar that would fairly easy to do.
You can move them around and they re inexpensive no more holes by trying to nail drill into the mortar.
Tap the cone shaped anchor in with a hammer carefully to prevent damage.
Finally a way to hang decor on brick walls.