Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

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If they are hard to remove with a claw hammer, you would need a room sized magnet to remove them. If they do have a good head on them, and using a "crow bar" still does work, then consider just pounding them in flat.

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On 3/27/2021 4:01 PM, just plain sue wrote:
Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in
rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls
of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet
would suffice to run across the wall boards???



What is the goal? You usually have two options. You can often pount
them in further and spackle the indent left, or, pull them out and
spackle the hole it left.

If you pull them out use a tool to pry them and put a thin piece of
metal or wood behind the tools so it does not dig in.

Magnet will do nothing but could help you locate them.

Grampy wrote

If they are hard to remove with a claw hammer, you would need a room
sized magnet to remove them.

The magnet locates them, it doesnt remove them.

If they do have a good head on them, and using a "crow bar" still does
work, then consider just pounding them in flat.

Wota butcher...

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In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:01:01 +0000, just plain sue
wrote:

Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

"Run across" is very ambiguous. Your meaning is clear from your subject
line, but I and some others often don't read subject lines. Would you
write something for school or publication and put one of the essential
points only in the title and not in the body?

Grampy and Ed are both right. As to crowbars, there is something
between a claw hammer and what I learned to think of as the primo
crowbar. Here is one:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-...515K/100093815

More powerful than a hammer, but not heavy enough to put accidental
dents in your wall, if you put a piece of metal or wood underneath as Ed
said.

On 3/27/2021 3:44 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:01:01 +0000, just plain sue
wrote:

Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

"Run across" is very ambiguous. Your meaning is clear from your subject
line, but I and some others often don't read subject lines. Would you
write something for school or publication and put one of the essential
points only in the title and not in the body?

Grampy and Ed are both right. As to crowbars, there is something
between a claw hammer and what I learned to think of as the primo
crowbar. Here is one:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-...515K/100093815

More powerful than a hammer, but not heavy enough to put accidental
dents in your wall, if you put a piece of metal or wood underneath as Ed
said.


I have a very nice diagonal cutter with a "flat" face on the cutter side
that allows me to grab onto the nail if it barely sticks out, or I can
press and squeeze it in to bite enough under the head to grab the nail.
Then, Using a flat bladed scraper to protect the wall, I can pry the
nail out by pushing the handle towards the wall as squeeze the handle
to bite into the nail.

On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 18:44:31 -0400, micky wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Sat, 27 Mar 2021 20:01:01 +0000, just plain sue
wrote:

Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

"Run across" is very ambiguous. Your meaning is clear from your subject
line, but I and some others often don't read subject lines. Would you
write something for school or publication and put one of the essential
points only in the title and not in the body?

Grampy and Ed are both right. As to crowbars, there is something
between a claw hammer and what I learned to think of as the primo
crowbar. Here is one:

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Stanley-...515K/100093815

More powerful than a hammer, but not heavy enough to put accidental
dents in your wall, if you put a piece of metal or wood underneath as Ed
said.

As a teenager, my dad bought abandoned houses and we deconstructed them to
reclaim and sell the lumber. A proper nail puller was essential. Ours
looked like this one.

https://www.amazon.com/Crescent-56-H...df_B00002N7SD/

The "slide hammer" handle lets you dig in just the right amount, allowing
you to get under the head and grab it. I must have pulled 10,000 nails with
one of these tools during my young years, many of them the old square
variety. It felt like 10,000 anyway. We even sold the nails, not just the
lumber, and this tool pulls them pretty much straight out without bending
or damaging them. It's fast and easy to use.

On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 4:01:05 PM UTC-4, just plain sue wrote:
Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

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My husband recommends a Binford 2000 nail gun, set on "reverse".

Cindy Hamilton

In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 28 Mar 2021 04:58:40 -0700 (PDT),
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On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 4:01:05 PM UTC-4, just plain sue wrote:
Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

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My husband recommends a Binford 2000 nail gun, set on "reverse".

Your husband knows his stuff.

Cindy Hamilton

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On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 4:01:05 PM UTC-4, just plain sue wrote:
Have an old house, circu 1880's, when then or later canvas was hung in rooms and wall paper hung on canvas. The canvas was nailed to the walls of the room & nails are very difficult to remove. Help! Thought a magnet would suffice to run across the wall boards???

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My husband recommends a Binford 2000 nail gun, set on "reverse".

Cindy Hamilton

Nah, it's always a Binford 6100 except for two items...

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Tekkie