Everything is tilted left

[Alan Edward Klein]

Our cleaning girl is the culprit. Every time she cleans, I have to go around afterwards straightening out all the pictures and mirrors on the walls. I think she moves them deliberately to fool us into thinking she actually cleaned them.

 

[Nicholas Lindan]

Try hanging the picture tilting slightly to the right - over time the picture should level itself out.

 

[pentaxuser]

It's a bitch to go all square,

Really? Huey Lewis says ít's hip

pentaxuser

 

[Rich Ullsmith]

The most interesting response here was: if they are all tilted left-- doctors office, lawyers office, home, next door, then why doesn't anybody do anything and straighten them out. My answer to that is, they don't care very much about it and I do. But this phenomena is real here. Coriolis plus natural vibration over time. All structures have frequencies, they just too high to hear.

 

[pentaxuser]

The most interesting response here was: if they are all tilted left-- doctors office, lawyers office, home, next door, then why doesn't anybody do anything and straighten them out. My answer to that is, they don't care very much about it and I do. But this phenomena is real here. Coriolis plus natural vibration over time. All structures have frequencies, they just too high to hear.

So Rich it seems from the above you knew all along what the cause was and that it was real? You were simply and solely asking us if this was a normal occurrence?

The problem is that unless this occurs everywhere, which your last sentence suggests it does, then what is normal in your location may not be normal elsewhere so the answers you get may not be helpful to you.

I have never noticed any tilt in my part of the U.K. On the there other hand you may be saying that I have such a tilt as does everyone but either we don't notice it or in my case mistakenly think it is me who can't make his own mind up about whether he has wrongly hung his clock on the wall

Does that sum up the correct conclusion to this thread?

Thanks

pentaxuser

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

You ought to lay off the hooch.

 

[Pieter12]

Our cleaning girl is the culprit. Every time she cleans, I have to go around afterwards straightening out all the pictures and mirrors on the walls. I think she moves them deliberately to fool us into thinking she actually cleaned them.

Cleaning girl!!!!!

 

[TJones]

The most interesting response here was: if they are all tilted left-- doctors office, lawyers office, home, next door, then why doesn't anybody do anything and straighten them out. My answer to that is, they don't care very much about it and I do. But this phenomena is real here. Coriolis plus natural vibration over time. All structures have frequencies, they just too high to hear.

If Coriolis were a factor, photos on opposite walls would tilt in opposite directions.

 

[grain elevator]

If coriolis force were a factor, that would mean your house was travelling in latitude.

 

[loccdor]

Tati

That is some great physical comedy

 

[snusmumriken]

That is some great physical comedy

If you've not encountered Jacques Tati before, watch especially Mon Oncle and Traffic. I can't imagine a life in which I had never seen his films.

And now back to picture hanging. I suggest to throw away the spirit level: your eye is plenty good enough to straighten the pictures relative to the room walls, which is what matters. However, if you use that kind of hanging system with a string or wire, where the top of the frame hangs out slightly from the wall, the picture cannot look straight from every angle. Then again, the consistent left bias ... that is well odd.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Cleaning girl!!!!!

Yes. She only cleans.

 

[pentaxuser]

If Coriolis were a factor, photos on opposite walls would tilt in opposite directions.

OK what about natural vibration over time? Is there such a thing occurring at a frequency that is beyond human hearing but may or may not be beyond other animals such as dogs and if there is such a thing will all hanging objects inevitably tilt, be that right or left, at some point in the future depending on strength of the frequency?

I am now curious

pentaxuser

 

[Vaughn]

Cleaning girl!!!!!

I love the scene in one of the recent superhero movie when a character says, "Nothing goes over my head. I am too fast. I will catch it."

 

[wiltw]

That brings to mind the question of, "Which way does the water in the toilet spiral downward in Australia?"

You can use 'museam wax' to secure the picture frames in whatever disorientation you wish, and then simply tell the cleaning lady the frames should not be unstuck from the wall when she dusts.

 

[Pieter12]

However, if you use that kind of hanging system with a string or wire, where the top of the frame hangs out slightly from the wall, the picture cannot look straight from every angle.

I hang my pictures with a picture hook and wire. The top of the frame does touch the wall if the wire is connected to the inside edge of the frame. Plus, I don't follow why it would not look straight even if the top does not touch the wall, except maybe in profile.

 

[snusmumriken]

I hang my pictures with a picture hook and wire. The top of the frame does touch the wall if the wire is connected to the inside edge of the frame. Plus, I don't follow why it would not look straight even if the top does not touch the wall, except maybe in profile.

Surely it’s always in partial profile, except when you are standing right in front of it? That’s my experience, anyway. I really appreciate the frames I have that are fixed flush with the wall. Mind you, our lath-and-plaster walls are far from perfect, so fixing took a big measure of eye-balling, and some dud drill holes. And cursing, of course. And far more tools than one would have expected.

 

[cowanw]

It may be that the hanging point on the wire is slightly off and if one merely straightens an unruly frame it will eventually tilt again. If a frame needs straightening then the hanging point must be adjusted and not merely rotating the frame.

 

[Vaughn]

Problem solved...

One on each bottom corner and it will take a major house-shake to shift the frame over.

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[Don_ih]

Use the motel method of hanging pictures.

Screw them to the wall through the frame.

There's too little appreciation of visible fasteners. They should be celebrated more.

 

[Vaughn]

One of the advantages to the sectional metal frames is that one can just put two screws in the wall a few inches apart, and then hang the backside of the top of the frame over the screw heads...never tilts.

 

[Pieter12]

Surely it’s always in partial profile, except when you are standing right in front of it? That’s my experience, anyway. I really appreciate the frames I have that are fixed flush with the wall. Mind you, our lath-and-plaster walls are far from perfect, so fixing took a big measure of eye-balling, and some dud drill holes. And cursing, of course. And far more tools than one would have expected.

Use the motel method of hanging pictures.

Screw them to the wall through the frame.

There's too little appreciation of visible fasteners. They should be celebrated more.

Museums do it all the time.

 

[Pieter12]

One of the advantages to the sectional metal frames is that one can just put two screws in the wall a few inches apart, and then hang the backside of the top of the frame over the screw heads...never tilts.

Two screws, nails, hangers. They all work with any frame, unless you have those cheesy sawtooth hangers on the back.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

It may be that the hanging point on the wire is slightly off and if one merely straightens an unruly frame it will eventually tilt again. If a frame needs straightening then the hanging point must be adjusted and not merely rotating the frame.

Use two hangers for the wire instead of one.

 

[Don_ih]

Then there's always the option of using a clothes iron and some drymount tissue to just mount the photo on the wall where you want it....