Posted: 1/29/2009 7:18:20 PM EDT
So a bit of a campfire story.
A month ago I paid a guy to come in and re-texture my master bedroom walls and pull the popcorn off the ceiling. I bough this house used and the folks had put lots of holes in the walls over the years and smoked up the ceiling. This guy only does the texture painting but not the actually painting. So the wife and I put six gallons of primer and paint on the room. The suite is big and has ceilings 24 feet high. As some of you know I draw a disability from the USN for my knees which are blown out. Climbing up and down that ladder wasn't much fun but we got it done. The room looks completely perfect - not a blemish in the paint, not a hole in the wall and I wanted to keep it looking that way. Virgin. 
So I go off to Home Depot and buy some 3M nail-less wall art hangers. They're by no means cheap, something like $7 for 6 of them. They use some space age adhesive foam which when you pull the tab comes off and doesn't damage the paint. I bought a couple of packages. They need 24-hours of curing before they're safe to hang. Sweet. So the wife and I love to sleep with the windows open, and you remember how cold it got Monday night down in SoCal? About 3 AM in the morning I wake to a massive crash, boom, crash, bang, "EARTHQUAKE!!", breaking glass, stuff falling .... I grab my pillow (don't know why) and I'm holding it over my head will sitting up. My wife and dog are scared to death. Silence. I look around, pop the lights on ... WTF? 
Seems that there 3M adhesive is good to about 45 degrees. 
One of my pieces of art has popped off the wall (no residue left behind!), hit the dresser mirror on the way down, bounced off the dresser, fallen on the floor, broken the glass covering the art work - and the little beads of hand blown glass from the Thai art have popped off and scattered all over the floor. Added a line to my honey-do list - put NAILS INTO THE WALLS! It took about an hour for the adrenaline to leave my system. I had something similar happen back in September of 2001 when my shower radio popped off the wall, landed in the tub and bounced around a few times. By the time that thing was done rebounding I was armed! 
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