Hanging anything on painted concrete walls
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Karen Hobbs
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I am in ecuador and homes are made from concrete or adobe. I hate having to drill holes just to hang something that isnt even heavy. I am wondering about using alcohol to remove a patch of paint then using the command hooks. any ideas?
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You could also use a wooden ladder leaned against the wall and the frames for pictures could be hung from the rungs.
Have you tried the command hooks before removing the paint? I never do. If the wall is smooth enough they will stick even with paint. If the wall is too rough and they don't stick, try sanding flat only where the command strip part on the wall is placed and see if that will work.
Alcohol probably won't remove the paint, and you don't need to. (The paint is probably smoother than what's under it anyway.) I have found that double-sided carpet tape is very strong indeed and sticks even to uneven surfaces. Go ahead and buy a whole roll of it at Home Depot or wherever, and use small patches to interface between the wall and the sticky back of the hooks. And don't be dismayed about the cost of the entire roll of carpet tape; once you have it in your arsenal-of-handy-things, you'll find yourself using it for all sorts of things, like on the bottom of the pretty ceramic khicknack on the top of the toilet that might slide off and break, and velcro (plain or sticky-back) to a wall, and the rubber-mat you bought to go under the pedals of your car that moves and buckles every time you get in and... even a carpet runner over another carpet, and... so forth.
I would try those command hooks