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firedog
Explorer
Oct 19, 2017

hanging pictures on wall

I don't want to put nails in the wall. I have tried velcro tape, doesn't hold for long.
The things I want to hang are not very heavy. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ann
  • :) Hi, I used Velcro to hold pictures to my mouse fur walls.

    I used 3M automotive (gray) two sided tape to attach items to my wooden walls.

    I printed 5" X 7" pictures of places that we have been too, sprayed then with clear coat three times, and wall papered them to my bathroom wall.
  • Command "Velcro"...it isn't Velcro, but, plastic mushrooms that when pressed into another mushroom strip hold extremely tenaciously. Now, put the 3M Command adhesive on their backs and you have one heck of a picture / mirror / clock / indoor/outdoor thermometer base station /...holding kit. You get the idea, and if in doubt of the holding power, just add more. I have all of the above mounted in our motor home and nothing moves or sags, and I've never had anything fall off the wall. Even the stuff I have mounted in the basement has weathered wild temperature swings with no failures. Things that we had mounted in our 5th wheel for 8 years came off cleanly with no indication that we'd ever had anything hanging there.
  • Command strips and tapes work great up until the vinyl wall covering releases and tears. Then you're searching for material to replace that matches, which is almost impossible to obtain. The manufacturers change it often, so if your rig is a few years old good luck.
  • yep, I didn't go back and check,but did we ever ask what the wall material was?
    bumpy
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    bukhrn
    Explorer III
    ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
    :) Hi, I used Velcro to hold pictures to my mouse fur walls.

    I used 3M automotive (gray) two sided tape to attach items to my wooden walls.

    I printed 5" X 7" pictures of places that we have been too, sprayed then with clear coat three times, and wall papered them to my bathroom wall.
    Bob, a little off topic but, is the pic in your signature of one of the arches on Rt 12, in Red Canyon,on the way to/from Bryce ?
  • bukhrn wrote:
    ROBERTSUNRUS wrote:
    :) Hi, I used Velcro to hold pictures to my mouse fur walls.

    I used 3M automotive (gray) two sided tape to attach items to my wooden walls.

    I printed 5" X 7" pictures of places that we have been too, sprayed then with clear coat three times, and wall papered them to my bathroom wall.
    Bob, a little off topic but, is the pic in your signature of one of the arches on Rt 12, in Red Canyon,on the way to/from Bryce ?


    :) Hi, Yes.
  • Bumpyroad wrote:
    yep, I didn't go back and check,but did we ever ask what the wall material was?
    bumpy


    I'd put my money on vinyl wall covering applied to luan plywood with an acrylic adhesive to be the case.

    Add in some humidity, the weight of the item, and a good pothole or two while traveling and...........riiiiiiiipppppppp. Had it happen and tear the paper starting at the command strip down to the counter 2' below. I can however say the command strip worked well and did not release from the wallpaper during the process. I tried to obtain material to match from Keystone at the time with no luck. You would have to get the matching paper to repair from the manufacturer of the panels. Keystone could not even obtain the 1" wide seam tape they use over the panel joints to match the 2 yr old wallpaper.