Hanging Paintings On Brick Walls

This article was co authored by jason phillip jason phillip is a handyman specializing in mounting and hanging objects onto walls.

Hanging paintings on brick walls. The best for hanging items on a brick wall with no drilling and worked best for all growing season support are the brick clips. To be exact the center of a framed piece of artwork should be. But it s actually quite simple. All you need to do is drill a hole into the mortar and put in a wall anchor.

Hanging art and decorations can be challenging and damaging but there s a trick. Other objects will have a hole hanger eyelet or something else that you can fit the end of the anchor hook into. Hanging art on brick walls. If your grout is recessed meaning the bricks poke slightly out over the.

Then you can hang your picture hook on the wall anchor and you re ready to go. Before you break up your brick or mess up your masonry with wall anchors there are a few amazing products you must know about. Both the style that holds the brick and the style that grips the open mortar space. With over five years of experience professionally mounting and installing objects through his company jason s handyman services jason s work includes working with mounting window ac units designing art gallery walls installing kitchen cabinets and replacing.

There are only 2 things more terrifying to a homeowner than drilling into brick. If you are hanging something like a framed picture it may have a wire that you can catch on the anchor hooks. Devices called brick clips or brick hangers allow people to hang pictures mirrors and other objects on walls without drilling into the brick two examples are brick clips by a company called. Hanging something on brick shouldn t give you a stress twitch you have two options and both of them are easy.

Our classic wall track was mounted immediately below the cornice. You can t just hammer a little nail into the wall like you could with drywall. Drilling into drywall and realizing you did a load of laundry during peak hydro hours. In this first instance the interior space is dominated by an aged red brick wall vintage pressed tin ceiling and cornice.

Hanging a picture on a brick wall may seem daunting. Yes there is a semi science to the art of getting the height of a piece just right it s called measuring. I tested two different products. First a few things.

In this case the business owner selected the track finished in black to create a nice hard line between the two elements.