How to Hang a Picture

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Tim Gipson, and I'm going to talk to you about hanging a picture. Now, the first thing you want to look at when you're hanging your picture is you want to look on the back side and see what type of attach point it has. Now, this particular picture that I'm going to hang right now, as you can see, has this clasp at the top that'll hang on a hook, or a nail, or a screw. As you see on the back of this picture, and you'll see this on heavier pictures, or heavier mirrors you actually see this wire that is strung from each side. And so, this is designed to hang on a, on a hook that goes into the wall. Now, if we have; what we've got to determine is we got to determine our hang point, so we want to determine how high that we want this on the wall. So, we'll hold it up, and we'll say well, we want it right there, okay? Now, we can hold this with one point. Sometimes, we gotta' get our shoulders and hands involved. And then, we want to take our pencil and we can mark the top of the picture. Now, we did mark the top of the picture, but it's not necessarily where we want to put the hanger. And there are several hangers that we can use that I'll talk about at this point. So, where we have this clip; now, in the wall right here we've already got pre-installed; there just happened to be a stud right here where this picture is going. So, in that case you can just nail in a broadhead nail, or just a standard common nail, and that'll hold that. If you have the wire then you'll want to use a hook like this that just goes into the nail. If you have heavier devices you actually have a screw in anchor such as this, or just a standard anchor, where you would draw a hole, and then, you would use a screw as your attach point. So, it really depends on how heavy your item is. So, when we're hangin' this what we want to do is we want to measure down from the top. In this case, it's three quarters of an inch, so it would come up from the line at where we want it, we would measure three quarters of an inch down, and that's where we would drive our nail. So, once you've got the nail in there it's just simply locating it, and making sure it hangs level. Now, it's a good idea when you're doin' this to have a torpedo level, which is a short little level that you can put on top to help you make sure you can hang this level. And that's all there is to it. I'm Tim Gipson, and that's how to hang a picture."