How To Hang Heavy Mirror On Old Plaster Wall

This hollow wall anchor will allow.

How to hang heavy mirror on old plaster wall.

To hang mirror on a plaster wall use a toggle bolt outfitted with a picture hanging hook. Use a power drill to carefully make pilot holes into the frame using the pre drilled holes in the bracket as a guide. Hang a mirror using hooks step 1 hold the mirror in place close to eye level. Use a molly bolt.

Center the mounting bracket or cleat on the back of the mirror frame and level with its top edge. Your mirror is too heavy for picture hooks alone but a wall anchor would likely do the trick to attach them to a wall made of drywall or plaster. Drill hole through plaster large enough to accept the toggle bolt. Mark the wall near the center of the top edge with a pencil or painter s tape.

Interlocking brackets on the wall and the mirror provide secure and level hanging. Expand the anchor. Called wall anchors or wall mollies these are small tapered plastic anchors that you push through the plaster after drilling a correct sized hole. Wall anchors have a hole in the middle that a.

Thread machine screw through toggle bolt nut then pinch flat the wings on the toggle and push it through the hole in the wall.