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How to remove this wall fastener.

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  • 18-04-2020 4:55pm
    #1
    Slasher
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭


    Does anyone know how to remove this fastener from a wall?

    (Sorry about the quality of the photo)

    wall fastener.jpg

    (hope this worked. This is my first time posting a photo)


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    Harry Palmr
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    Claw hammer usually works, you might need to waggle it from several directions using the wall itself for leverage. If the head is too far away, use a bit of timber against the wall.


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    Slasher
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Slasher


    Here's another pic, slightly better quality.

    It's like a hollow nail, that is open along one side.

    Does anyone know what it is called?


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    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,353 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Its an express nail.
    Its just held there by the spring tension on the nail itself.
    They can be near impossible to remove if they have enough grip on wall.
    Just cut it off with grinder or hacksaw and tap remainder below surface of wall and fill hole.


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    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,687 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Slasher wrote: »
    Here's another pic, slightly better quality.

    It's like a hollow nail, that is open along one side.

    Does anyone know what it is called?

    Nail bar with a bit of a wedge under it


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    Slasher
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Slasher


    Thank you all for your suggestions.


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    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    Hit it with a hammer it'll break off


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    magicbastarder
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    knowing express anchors, i would be wary of following the advice immediately above. they're not designed to be removed easily, and the advice about the nail bar, while it can't hurt* to try, i suspect the head would just fold flat if you tried.

    *this could go wrong and hurt.


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    olestoepoke
    Registered Users Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Bang it back and forth with a hammer and it'll break off.


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    Hocus Focus
    Registered Users Posts: 754 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    Failing all of that, knock it all the way in.


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    Harry Palmr
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    *have you switched it off and back on again?*


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    Slasher
    Registered Users Posts: 400 ✭✭Slasher


    Still waters wrote: »
    Hit it with a hammer it'll break off

    In the end, I did this and it worked.

    I tried what people had suggested, but in the end, brute force was required. I hit it several times with a hammer: up, down, left, right. Over and over. It snapped eventually. Now, I just have to fill the hole and paint over it.

    Lesson: don't use an express nail unless you will never, never, never want to remove it.

    Stay safe, everyone.


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    magicbastarder
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    Slasher wrote: »
    Lesson: don't use an express nail unless you will never, never, never want to remove it.
    that's the point of them! they're great in their simplicity.


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