Finding a Wall Stud to Hang a Picture

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Bobby Hestor on behalf of Expert Village. And in this series, we're going to show you how to hang big pictures, small pictures, and every size in between. We going to show you how to use hangers and we're going to show you how to quickly and easily hang a picture just like a professional. In this clip, I'm going to show you how to use a stud finder. A lot of time you may be hanging a picture that's really heavy, or a big piece of iron artwork, or maybe even a really expensive plasma television. And just hanging anchors into the sheetrock may not be good enough. I'd hate for your big, expensive plasma television to fall off the wall. So we need to find a stud. Your typical wall has studs on sixteen inch centers. So every sixteen inches, there's going to be a piece of two by four that's running up and down. And if we have something big we want to hang on the wall, we want to hit those studs with our nails. What we have is, we have this stud finder and it detects through the wall where the stud is. So we'll hold the stud finder nice and firm against the wall, push the button, and start to move it left or right. And immediately, I hit a stud right there. So, we'll come back just a little bit, to where it first starts to beep and we'll put just a little line right in middle. Continue to go, go all the way past it, and come back again in the other direction and we put another line there. And that should give you and inch and a half. So those are the two sides of your stud. And you put your nail right in the middle and that will give you a nice firm anchor point that you don't have to worry about things falling off the wall."