Hard Wall Tacker - opinions?

Manufacturer's YouTube vid "Hardwall Takker"

They would sell a lot of them if they changed the casing colours to pink, as that's gonna be where most of them will go.

It's de-skilling a job where someone would normally concentrate on their actions. Can imagine lots of women and kids let loose in properties owned by others, and lots of fun until someone eventually strikes a stupidly placed electrical cable or pipe.

(An integrated mains voltage/metal detector may have been a good idea)

You still have picture rails in your house?

I would have thought the hardwall hangers would do the same job faster and with less fuss - only tool required a hammer. (and if you remove one, it just leaves three tiny holes)

I quite like picture rails, if you have high ceilings it breaks up the wall a bit, and makes it cheaper to paper!

So do I, but they're regarded as very old-fashioned. Same with pulley airers in the kitchen. The sort of thing people remove when 'updating' a property. Maybe a future Barry Bucknell will want to nail plywood to modern moulded 'panel' doors. "They're such a dust trap!"

when we moved into this house in 1977, I removed hardboard nailed over the

-Purpose-Hanging-Kit

NT

I removed a few of these. They did leave a mess, fortunately I was decorating the room anyway.

But the video shows how it's "imposssible" to drill into pipes and wires.

Are they 'real' panelling, of bevel edged wood, or plywood?

The trick is to just tap them on the side a few times gently with a hammer. You can usually get them out cleanly then.

I've never dissected one to find out, but I suspect, judjing by the thickness, that it's probably plywood, with a moulging round the eges

The pins tend to corrode into place a bit, so a straight pull brings plaster as well. I must try the sideways tapping as another metod - I've always twisted the pin then pulled whilst twisting, but it's not 100%.

I wonder why they continued with the panelling method after plywood became available? Conservatism I suppose.