How to Choose the Right Picture Hangers or Wall Fasteners

Series Summary

There are all sorts of odd jobs around the house that need fixing, but don't hire a professional handyman just yet. It may seem overwhelming, but most people are more than capable of taking on all of these odd jobs and repairing things without any help. Learn how to fix everything from an unhinged door to kitchen cabinets. In this free video series on home repair and maintenance, handyman Oscar Moreno demonstrates how to use different tools to replace and fix items around the house. Moreno explains how to choose the right hanger or wall fastener. He also discusses other household projects, such as: troubleshooting electrical problems and fluorescent lighting, drilling through stainless steel, operating a jigsaw, operating a planer, and even operating a miter saw. Watch these free videos and learn to perform different maintenance tasks around the house today.

Video Transcript

"Hello, this is Oscar Moreno with Moreno Custom Home Visions and today we're going to teach you guys how to choose the appropriate picture hangers or wall fasteners. Here I have a few samples of what's out there and just keep in mind, there's always new stuff coming out so this is what we have here. Here we have regular old picture hangers that you can choose from different weights, different weight capacities, that you have here. These are you basic just picture hangers, what you have here. This is a real light guy, just make sure that you read your packaging, make sure that your actual picture hangers can hold and what you're actually hanging so just keep that in mind. Another thing we're going to tell you guys here, as well, is these are your different types of wall fasteners. We have these guys that screw into sheet rock and, pretty much, you can see what they do when they expand. They really don't do much expanding, what actually holds all the weight is there's actual large ridges on the actual screw, that embeds themselves in there. Now, after those guys, let me get organized here, would be these guys, which have a little bit more of an expanding power. You can see here that these guys, how they expand, they have a little bit more power than these other guys but just as well. If you want to hang something a little smaller, we would go into these little blue guys here. They expand pretty well but they're pretty thin so their holding power is not that great. Now if you're looking to holding up something pretty heavy, one of your right pieces to choose would be this guy that can hold up to, I know this for a fact, that these guys can hold up to eighty pounds, so very strong, very sturdy. You can see how they go in real thin-like so they don't make too big of a hole in your sheet rock and then how they expand. They actually open up like a little butterfly and expand in there and have a tremendous holding force on them. Not only do they carry the ridges, like your first ones here, but they also expand so you can have a much more better support on there. That's, pretty much, how you guys choose your picture hangers and your wall fasteners."