How To Hang A Square Plate On The Wall

How to hang plates on a wall with adhesive discs.

How to hang a square plate on the wall.

How to hang plates on a wall. Grab a closed safety pin and arrange it along the back bottom portion of your plate. Activate the glue on the adhesive discs. Place the safety pin upside down onto the glue with 1 2 inch of the bottom of the pin pointing upwards.

The best way to do this is to first attach the plate hanger to the plate and lie the plate on a flat surface. Press the adhesive discs onto the backs of the plates. Tape the templates to a wall. I already had a nail in the wall so hung one of the larger plates on that and worked around that center point.

Lay white paper on a flat surface. Tape out your plan. Cut a small square of felt to overlap the safety pin about 1 2 inch around each side. They tend to slide around the edges of your plate if you buy the cheap ones they don t come with rubber bumpers and they scratch the rim of the plates.

Make sure to use wall anchors if you have plaster walls or if you aren t screwing into a stud. If it doesn t take the hanger off the plate bend it and place it back on to see if it s where you need it to be. Determine your placement for the plate to hang and add a small strip of hot glue along the inside rim of the back of the plate. The most common way of hanging plates is with these commercial plate hangers.

Carefully using scissors cut out each plate circle. Untwist the paperclip so you have a large hanging hook and the bottom loop. Slip the d ring hardware right onto the screw. The top of the hanger should barely touch the flat surface that your plate is lying on.

Clean the back of the plates. Next i cut out small circles of felt to fit the center of the plate backs. Find the bare wall or section of wall where you want to hang your plates and measure out the width and height of. This larger loop is what will get glued to your plates.

Hang your plates with hot glue and safety pins as a budget option. Turn each plate upside down onto paper. Using a pencil trace outline of each plate. To hang the plate drill a drywall screw into the wall leaving it about 1 4 from going all the way in.

Use spring style hangers for hanging plates on a wall. I personally hate them.