De vez en cuando nos toca colgar a nivel algún objeto de la pared, como un colgador de ropa o un cuadro, y todos sabemos que tener que medir para dejarlo nivelado es un engorro. Además no nos podemos fiar de que los enganches que tiene el colgador o el cuadro estén ambos a la misma distancia de la línea que nos marque el nivel del colgador.
So, in this post and in the corresponding video, we’re going to watch how to put a wall coat rack on the wall so that it’s level. And best of all, we’re going to do it without having to measure anything. And by the way we will see how to drill the wall without making dust.
Cuando pensamos en cómo colgar un colgador u otro objeto de la pared solemos recurrir al metro y a hacer muchas medidas y algunas marcas en la pared. Todo para intentar asegurarnos de colgar a nivel el objeto.
What I do is drive a headless nail into the inside of the hooks from which the coat rack will hang. I have to put the nail well against the top of the hanging bracket hole, I insert it in a few millimeters and pull it out. This leaves a pilot hole in the wood on the inside hole of each hanging plate bracket.
Next I am going to cut in half a couple of nails that are the same dimensions as the one I used before. I discard the head parts and keep the parts with the nail tips. This way I can drive these nails into the pilot holes I made in the wood inside the hanging brackets hole, but in such a way that I leave the tip of the nails protruding a few millimeters outward.
Now it is a matter of putting the coat rack in its position on the wall. I level it with the help of a spirit level …
and I have to press the coat rack against the wall. Being careful not to lose the level marked by the bubble.
Thus, the nails are going to leave the marks where I have to drill this drywall to put the nylon plugs. On painted brick and cement walls this leveling trick also works.
As in this case the wall is made of plasterboard, I use special nylon plugs for plasterboard.
I can drill the holes with a wood drill bit, and then I have to screw the nylon plasterboard plugs to fit into the holes.
Here the trick to avoid making dust when drilling the wall is to put the mouth of the vacuum cleaner hose just below the drill bit. This way the vacuum cleaner hose sucks up all the dust we make when drilling the wall and prevents it from spreading around the room.
I can now put the plasterboard nylon plugs into the drywall and screw the L hooks into the nylon plugs. And hang the coat rack from the L hooks. Finally, just to make sure I did everything right, I can use the spirit level to check that I got the coat rack hung level.
And so we have seen how to hang a wall coat rack with a very simple DIY trick that can be very helpful and save us time and work.
