3M picture hanging strips...will they rip the paint off

gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
edited January 25, 2006 in Accessories
I was going to try these things to put some photos up on the wall ..(no weight involved as they are glued only on a bit of new corflute type stuff) & are A4 size & smaller.

Anyone tried them ? Do they work this easy or will they eventually rip the paint off as blue-tac does if its left up too long ?

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  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    I've been using these for awhile now, and in my experience they do not rip the paint off when removing the picture properly. You can't just pull the item off the wall, you have to actualy slowly pull the tab on the strip, and as you pull it will stretch the tab right off both the wall and the picture. They are a bit expensive, but they do work!
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  • colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    I don't know about that product, but I have used the double-sided foam "Removable Mounting Tabs" from Magic Mounts for the small description cards next to my photos at a show. The longest I've had them up was for a two-month show. After that time, they did not take the paint off the wall of the venue, and they didn't fall off either. I was pretty happy with them. From what I remember they're inexpensive.

    Note: The ones I have are product #3220 which I found at an Office Depot or OfficeMax. I can't find that product number on the manufacturers' web site linked above. The page I linked to contains what look to me like the closest current product, but I'm not sure.
  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    My wife and I fight about these all the time (personal problem, I know). She loves then and I don't.

    In my experience, they do take the paint off sometimes. Not always but sometimes. To remove them you do the little manuever of pulling down the "tab" until the material stretches and releases from the wall. Well, sometimes it has a mind of it's own and decides to hold on to some wall. But only when I do it. The little devils seems to like my wife better than me.

    And we have had the opposite problem as well: things magically releasing themselves from the wall in the middle of the night. Great way to wake up in the dark . . . the sound of something crashing and glass breaking.

    :tough
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  • rjpatrjpat Registered Users Posts: 248 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    I have used them before and haven't ever had a problem with them damaging the wall.
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    Thanks everyone...i will try them now.

    Wholenewlight i sleep under a ceiling fan that i didnt put up....i wake at night & listen to it quietly wobbling in the darkness & wonder how well its secured. I often imagine it its going to drop off & land spinning on my toes or nose.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    Humungus wrote:
    Thanks everyone...i will try them now.

    Wholenewlight i sleep under a ceiling fan that i didnt put up....i wake at night & listen to it quietly wobbling in the darkness & wonder how well its secured. I often imagine it its going to drop off & land spinning on my toes or nose.

    I thought that happened to you once already? headscratch.gif
    Andy

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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    I thought that happened to you once already? headscratch.gif

    Why do you think im waiting for it :uhoh

    All this talk !!..Now im going to have to pull it down & re-mount it !
  • colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    Humungus wrote:
    at night & listen to it quietly wobbling in the darkness

    Geez that reminds me of "Twin Peaks"... creepy
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    Humungus wrote:
    Why do you think im waiting for it :uhoh

    All this talk !!..Now im going to have to pull it down & re-mount it !

    If I were you, I'd do it - today. naughty.gif
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  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    If I were you, I'd do it - today. naughty.gif

    No way !
    Its Australia day holiday here...we are all off to the dam for a swim/paddle/fish & BBQ. Suns up early & it only going to get to 85f so its going to be a good day out.
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