The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

You just need 2 nails, one each end of the canvas. Picture hooks not much use for hanging a canvas unless it has string on the back of it from side to side.

No. I have a picture hook ..... if I start trying to find/buy nails (the right sort), then banging them in, it'll end in tears

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. I have a picture hook ..... if I start trying to find/buy nails (the right sort), then banging them in, it'll end in tears

I think Maggie means at the back of the picture. With a bit of cord tied to them.

The best thing though, are these little rings that screw into the back of the picture, and you tie the cord to those.

They're dead cheap, from Wilkinson or any cheap bits and pieces place.
You can make a little hole at the back of the picture with any sharp point...... a bradawl or auger, or sometimes I use a skewer! even the tip of a sharp knife would do, just to let the little ring screws take purchase, then you screw them in by hand.



I'll find a pic...........

Here's a link..... a picture-hanging kit from Wilko for £2. It contains those little rings (eyes), the pin hooks I mentioned before that you just hammer into the wall, and string, and another sort of 'eye' that you can screw into the picture.

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-picture-hanging-kit/p/0296977?nst=0&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1cavxM3v3AIVwbTtCh3DKAizEAQYCCABEgJ30fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I think Maggie means at the back of the picture. With a bit of cord tied to them.

The best thing though, are these little rings that screw into the back of the picture, and you tie the cord to those.

They're dead cheap, from Wilkinson or any cheap bits and pieces place.
You can make a little hole at the back of the picture with any sharp point...... a bradawl or auger, or sometimes I use a skewer! even the tip of a sharp knife would do, just to let the little ring screws take purchase, then you screw them in by hand.



I'll find a pic...........

Here's a link..... a picture-hanging kit from Wilko for £2. It contains those little rings (eyes), the pin hooks I mentioned before that you just hammer into the wall, and string, and another sort of 'eye' that you can screw into the picture.

https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-picture-hanging-kit/p/0296977?nst=0&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1cavxM3v3AIVwbTtCh3DKAizEAQYCCABEgJ30fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

s'all a bit technical innit. Buy a bag of trouble ... that's what the heading should be on that

It'll be all right...

The frame has a thin slot in the middle at the top... that has sort of "jagged tooth edges". The picture hook is a regular brass looking jobby... but the brass appears to be thicker than the jagged slot. I could, say, take a length of twine and feed it through the jagged slot and tie knots at both ends, then hang the twiney bit from the hook ... or something Heath Robinsonesque that I dream up...

Why is it, in life, that no matter what "solution" you think you're taking home .... it always needs something else before you can use it?

EDIT: This is the sort of fixing it has - but it's very narrow.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Saw-tooth-easy-picture-frame-hangers-Mirror-fixings-easy-wall-art-canvas-hooks-/142032109596

PasturesNew

Here's the picture, just so you know. 80cm wide, 40cm high. "Hand embellished" it says.

https://s8.postimg.cc/3xd2euz4l/Kathryn_White_Beach_Huts_Hand_Embellised_Canvas_80cmx40cm_114226619_10.jpg

Right theme. Wrong colouring/exact content really. Could've done with being bigger by 30-50%. But "better than nothing".... £3. Bargain.

Although a popular/well known artist for interior design stuff.... I find this canvas lacking in "talent" to be honest. It's not striking ... nor naive/cheery. Googling, this one doesn't come up at all - but it's not "her usual style" - so maybe she tried it and bummed out.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

s'all a bit technical innit. Buy a bag of trouble ... that's what the heading should be on that

It'll be all right...

The frame has a thin slot in the middle at the top... that has sort of "jagged tooth edges". The picture hook is a regular brass looking jobby... but the brass appears to be thicker than the jagged slot. I could, say, take a length of twine and feed it through the jagged slot and tie knots at both ends, then hang the twiney bit from the hook ... or something Heath Robinsonesque that I dream up...

Why is it, in life, that no matter what "solution" you think you're taking home .... it always needs something else before you can use it?

EDIT: This is the sort of fixing it has - but it's very narrow.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Saw-tooth-easy-picture-frame-hangers-Mirror-fixings-easy-wall-art-canvas-hooks-/142032109596

Yes, I know the sort of thing.
In my experience, a central hanging spot on the back of a picture can make it difficult to hang it completely level, that's why the two eyes and piece of string is the better option.

Believe me, Pastures, it is really easy and cheap to do, I promise you. I am hopeless at DIY, really, but even I can put those eyes in a picture back, and bang those pin hooks into the wall!

From other posts you've made, you've done far more complicated things than that.

I know it's frustrating when you get something home, and you want it put up there and then, but sometimes sleeping on it produces its own solutions! :cool:

Pyxis

I've just thought....... did you say that the hook on the wall is one of those brass hooks with a headed pin that you slot through it and bang into the wall?

If so, I can understand why the brass hook might be too thick for the saw-tooth thing.

In which case, what you could do, (and I've done this too), is remove the brass hook and its pin from the wall with pliers, then bang the pin on its own back into its hole in the wall, and hang the picture from the pin.
Obviously leave enough of the pin sticking out of the wall to engage with the saw-tooth thing.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I've just thought....... did you say that the hook on the wall is one of those brass hooks with a headed pin that you slot through it and bang into the wall?

If so, I can understand why the brass hook might be too thick for the saw-tooth thing.

In which case, what you could do, (and I've done this too), is remove the brass hook and its pin from the wall with pliers, then bang the pin on its own back into its hole in the wall, and hang the picture from the pin.
Obviously leave enough of the pin sticking out of the wall to engage with the saw-tooth thing.

It's a brass hook that's affixed to the wall with two screws. A tiny bit meatier than the standard/cheap ones with tiny nails.

As I've seen the trouble with filling plasterboard walls - and as my aim is to get the house "ready for sale", I don't want to spend money to run the risk of farqing something up

Quite happy to have given that a go with "proper walls" or a house I was doing up or staying in ... but not now/not here.

To be honest, if there hadn't been a hook I'd have had no need to source a picture to hang on it I didn't start with a burning desire for a picture - I started with a desire to hang something on an existing hook as that was easier than removing the hook and filling/painting any holes... especially as filling/painting might've ended up in the whole wall needing to be painted "to match".

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's a brass hook that's affixed to the wall with two screws. A tiny bit meatier than the standard/cheap ones with tiny nails.

As I've seen the trouble with filling plasterboard walls - and as my aim is to get the house "ready for sale", I don't want to spend money to run the risk of farqing something up

Quite happy to have given that a go with "proper walls" or a house I was doing up or staying in ... but not now/not here.

That's fair enough......I'd leave the wall hook, then!

LydiaJ

DD and I have been shopping. We bought a collar and lead, a tag (which we got engraved with our details), food and water bowls, dog treats and dog food of various kinds. A dog bed has been ordered and should be delivered tomorrow.

I have brought the four separate wooden sides of the old toddler playpen back from Aged P's house, to use as temporary barriers to keep New Dog to the hard floor areas until we find out if she's reliable house-training-wise.

She has been spayed today. Still no word as to when the home inspecting person is coming to check our garden is secure, but the woman who runs the dogs' home is still hoping it can be done in time for us to have her tomorrow. That'll make it a busy day - it's A-level results day too.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

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All exciting then!

I was recently away with an owner ... and found it "quite hard" as there are so many restrictions, such as not being able to go into shops with a dog... so we had to go in singly and the other one wait outside with the dog So, "idle browsing/chatting/pointing things out/holding things up" wasn't an option.

And finding spots where they're allowed (grass/beaches) and whether that's on a lead or off... we even had to consider the pavement/road/whatever surface we were walking along... coastal footpaths (are they stony, or sandy, or grass?) ... so much thought/pre-planning, checking/aborting. "Walked too long on the road, need to find grass" type of situations... and "carry it now, because of the surface here"....

I found it quite ... tiresome.

Ditto pubs.... looking for food ... allowed or not? All bars, or a specific one? Will the dog enjoy/like the area/s it's allowed?

We couldn't even go for a swim in the pool together as somebody had to be with the dog at all times. Not allowed in, not allowed to be left alone in the accommodation.

I'm too .... bl00dy selfish