Question about using grid walls

[Former_Member]

Hey everyone! I'm doing my first craft show November 19th!!! I do a lot of pallet wood projects and signs. I have this heavy duty grid wall panels but I am unsure how to hang my products on them. Mostly everything I'm selling has one of those claw tooth picture hangers on them. Any suggestions???

[JustMeToo]

A good display place that sells gridwall should have all kinds of different attachments for gridwall. I use it, and I know the place I bought them has all kinds of attachments, made especially for gridwall. Check online as well, at gridwall suppliers. Good luck with your first craft show! I have one on that date as well!

[WhimsyBits]

You can buy hooks for the gridwalls that are great for hanging framed print/signs/photos/etc...

Check on ebay, I bought a ton last year for a pretty good price. And now I'll probably never use them again...since i got out of the sign business lol

I just looked on ebay and they are called gridwall picture notch

[CoquetteBath]

my only caution about grid walls is be careful how you use the feet. At the last show, the lady next to me used feet that extended into my space, and I tripped over them until I put a box over them.

Which I shouldn't have to do--avoid an area of the space that I paid for--so please take that into consideration.

You could drill them into two bookcases...so that they had support and wouldn't need feet.

[JustMeToo]

I drilled holes in the back of my tables, so I cable tie my walls to the back of my tables, to avoid using the feet on a side wall where I have a neighbour. Occasionally, though, I have a neighbour who is putting a table there anyway on her side, and I can go ahead and have feet under her table - after discussing it, of course! I just finished a show where I had gridwall 16 feet by 8 feet and didn't use legs at all! There was pipe and drape, so I cable tied to the pipe at each end, and to my tables. Very solid.

[CoquetteBath]

exactly the proper way, Carol. Ask permission and work with the other. But the lady beside me didn't ask. Just stuck them in my space and when I mentioned to her that they were intruding, she just shrugged.

at least she wasn't IP infringing with her baby stuff. Which was all very cute.

[ImLaughingMyGlassOff]

I dread the load in weight of that much grid wall! You are a strong woman.

I use it on my back wall and honestly my stuff looks better pulled in away from the wall so the light can get back there so I can do the gridwall, or as my teen calls it, the Griswolds.

[WhimsyBits]

I have 16 feet of gridwalls now and holy moly my back does not appreciate it lol I have them connected in either sets of 2 or 3 so i don't have to take them apart every time.

I mentioned this in my other thread but you can also use mini zipties and connect them, make a corner (L-shape) and you can make a pretty sturdy wall if you have nothing to attach them too. I will sometimes create a very slight "V" in the middle of the wall to create more support but if you're not hanging anything fragile then it should be fine.

My last show I did a wall of 4 panels, then 2 on one side and 3 on the other. All just connected with zipties.

[OutOfTheWoodsUSA]

In the beginning we used the hooks recommended and sold by the company we purchased the grid walls from. We found that hooking/unhooking the wall decor a time consuming task, not to mention that storing all those hooks are a pain. Bruce invested in inexpensive "S" hooks and now puts one on each of his wall decor pieces. Up until the time we sell the item, the "S" hook stays on the item. No more reaching for the item, reaching for the hook and then mounting on the grid and doing the opposite when taking down. This saves us probably 10 minutes at set up and again at take down.

We have about 30 feet of grid wall. We don't always use all that - it depends on our set up. We put tables in front of the grids. We use bungee cords to secure the grids to the tent AND tables.