While most adhesive hooks are strong enough to keep your pictures on the wall you must buy a couple capable of holding about 8 pounds or 3 6kg of weight.
How to hang a picture on a cinder block wall.
The adhesive hooks are an outstanding solution because they don t require we drill holes in the wall.
The round area goes above it.
Make a pencil mark at the spot on the wall where the picture will hang from the hook.
Allow an hour for the adhesive to set before hanging the picture.
The anchor used to hang heavy objects on a cinder block wall must grip the sides of the anchor s pilot hole tightly.
Also wall grip hardwall hangers for concrete cinderblock and masonry are great for hanging things.
The hook goes on your mark.
You hammer the hanger into the wall and it puts 4 small pins into the wall that are holding a plastic hook.
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Anchors with heavy duty spring loaded wings hold objects against the hollow part of a cinder block and wedge style anchors hold objects against the cinder block s solid webbing.
Remove the paper lining on the back of the hook line it up straight and press the hook firmly onto the wall.
Cinder blocks have hollow cells and solid webbing.
I used it in my college dorm 25 years ago and now use them in my classroom on the cinderblock walls.
Hold the hook at the base and hammer the pins into the wall.
Press the adhesive side of the hook to the wall for 30 seconds.
Weight limits vary by product with the strongest picture hanging hooks supporting a maximum of eight pounds.
Hold for 30 seconds and release.