Quick question — do you put things up on your walls and then spackle and fill
nail holes when you take them down?
Not exact matches
I remember at least a half dozen times
when my finger got smushed (at least a couple times in a door jamb), and you'd just heat up a paperclip with a lighter, make a
hole in the
nail, and then the blood would come out and all was well with the world.
So,
when it comes to redoing a space, one of the first things we always do is fill in the existing
nail holes.
This attitude was
nailed down in 1985
when a British group announced their discovery of a «
hole» in the ozone layer over Antarctica.
A couple of thumb tacks
holes in the wall or
nail holes can easily be patched but what about
when your tenant decides to paint?
Now put that hammer and
nails down, there are alternatives to making
holes in your walls
when it comes to creating a photo wall.
Back
when we had plaster walls, I found brass professional
nails that went right in without making a
hole bigger that my fist.
It will leave larger
nail holes than the 18 gauge so we use it to attach boards
when building furniture and to install crown molding, casing and baseboards.
When you use a
nail gun, you will have tiny
holes where each
nail went in.
Living in an apartment lends itself to the creatively - minded
when utilizing small spaces with as little
nails, screws, or anything else which would put another
hole in drywall.
So I used a piece of cardstock and cut it to the dimensions of the drawer front and then I measured out where I wanted my new pull and colored in the
nail holes to show where I (and
when I say «I» I mean Big Daddy) would pre drill
holes for the screws.
It is super strong and sturdy because instead of using
nails to assemble the frame which is often the temptation
when building smaller projects like this, I used pocket
hole screws made easy by the Kreg Pocket Hole
hole screws made easy by the Kreg Pocket
Hole Hole Jig.
I've read somewhere that
when putting
holes in wallpaper, you can cut a little upside down V where the
hole will be, fold the paper down and then the
nail doesn't go through the wallpaper.
You would see gray walls with a million
nail holes, dents and scratches and a handrail that for some ridiculous reason I decided to paint white
when we moved in.
That said, we have several
nail holes and things that we will need to patch and repair
when the time comes to ready the space for resale anyway so it certainly wouldn't be the worst thing in the world and I could camouflage an exposed cord.
Also
when it comes time to remove them it might damage the wall more than a few
nail holes.