OOK 50672 Professional Picture Hangers, 🖼️ Brass - 20 Sets, Holds up to 10lbs Review

Somewhere I read an ad from This Old House about using OOK hooks and was inspired to try them to hang a heavy painting on drywall. They worked great and I've been looking for the OOK brand ever since. This neat tin is a handy way to keep hooks organized, but for 20 simple hooks it's pricey. When re-ordering, I'll probably look more towards something like the OOK Picture Hanging Set 50918 Professional Picture Hanging Set, holds up to 17 frames.

My favorite picture hangers. I lived in 4 houses once in 3 years - these professional grade hooks are amazing because you can pull them out of the wall with just a tiny hole and use them over and over again. Always buy these and not the cheaper everyday OOK hooks - they have a thicker nail and the head of the nail is harder to remove from the wall if you ever want to move. Note that they work best for pictures that have a picture wire on the back - they usually don't work for small sawtooth…

Like most people, I've used cheap "silver" picture hangers my entire life and just assumed it was normal that when the hanger was removed there would be a jagged hole in the drywall Fix; not a huge hole, but big enough to be visible even after filling up. I ran out of paint to touch up the walls we were going to hang some new photos on and thought I'd try these OOK hangers as they claim you'll just have a small hole in the wall when you remove them. Of course when we installed the hangers one…