Command strips are supposed to stretch a lot. That’s how you get them off the wall. Instead of pulling them off all at once and ripping the paint, it stretches so it gently and slowly removes itself from the wall.
Also a lot of brand recommend removing them and reinstalling every 6 months or so to avoid glue issues since in some climate the glue can be affected and my adhere better over a long period of time. That’s why they often come with a lot of extra adhesive strips
As someone who works at a residence hall and issues these exact charges, it’s usually always 75 for any kind of wall damage unless you like punched a whole in the wall or something way more noticeable but paint chips and or scratches are all under one category of 75$ :)
@@evvieelmore usually the same category unless there’s like an outrageous number of them. But honestly most people don’t even look that close to see them
i’m not surprised they did, though. pretty sure she goes to usc, and that place is ridiculously expensive and selective. it’s a little crazy, but not TOO crazy to assume such an expensive university would charge close to a grand for wall damage. 😭
As an RA who has never gotten charged some tips and tricks: Put masking tape under the command hook. If the comand hook is already on the wall blast it with a hairdryer so that the glue will be easier to separate:)
the command strips are supposed to keep stretching 😂 you stretch and stretch til it pops off finally, they are a bitch and a half but no damage normally! 🤣😭
@@MakaylaLysiak you are meant to place them so that that part goes down so when you pull you pull from beneath or at least that is how the Australian ones are made and say to do on the box
Because the often just slap another layer of paint onto dorms during the hot, humid summers with no primer or buff it never cures properly and will tear off no matter how careful you are about it lol
I've had to use a hair dryer to soften up command strips before. They make it seem so easy but if you have a/c on all the time or its winter they become a nightmare to remove. I use tons of painters tape now instead lol
They usually bill whatever the contractor bills them hourly to do the patch and paint job. Since they were small it probably was between 2-4 hours of work so I feel like it checks out.
With the command strips it can help to press down on the plastic bit (not super hard just enough to keep it from moving) and pull the tape slowly but as parallel to the wall as possible. It will strech a lot but it wont damage the wall...unless the wall wasnt preped right for painting or for whatever reason the layers of paint under the top layer degraded (in that case damage is practically unavoidable though).
Command hooks need to pulled straight down without lifting up. Hard to do. Most people pull slightly away from the wall and this removes some paint and or wall material. You literally need to stay parallel with the wall and pull slowly. Sometimes they fail and rip and you still end up causing some damage.
When I ripped paint off my wall at uni I just bought a sample paint tin in the same colour and painted a few coats over it myself. They never noticed I didn’t pay a thing lol
Most places will revoke the charge too if you appeal/write back saying the damage falls under the terms of normal wear-and-tear. If there is nowhere on the lease that bans command strips since they are sold as an every-day appliance that won’t damage the walls, you can argue that the damage is due to to their improper painting/prepping of the apartment before move-in cuz, let’s be honest, no slumlord is gonna wash down the walls before repainting or bother applying the proper layers of paint, the reason why command strips rip apart those walls so bad is cuz there’s like 100 layers of paint+dust on there. this has happened to me at 2 apartments and both ended up revoking the charge and giving my full deposit back.
That’s ridiculous! Buy a small thing of plaster and a small paint sample in the color matched color of the wall. You’ll also need a piece of sand paper and a paint brush or roller and a small spatula to apply and smooth the plaster. You can buy all of that for less than $75 and fix many holes in your dorm over the years that you’re there.
We live in on post housing and the paint in this house is like awesome our dogs come scratched all the walls didn’t actually leave any marks gotta fix some stuff ourselves when we move but the blinds u can pick up from maintenance cat messed them up lol
I also use command strips when I was running and they’re not the same as they used to be. They do just keep stretching and then they rip off that drywall.
THIS HAPOENED TO ME TOO i was moving apartments into the same complex just a different unit and i had a welcome sign hung up by a command strip and it ripped off the dry wall in a rectangle 😢 needless to say ill just be using nails from now on and i can just color match our paint in a tiny circle
Command strips or any other wall strip tape things suck! The best way I found removing them is to use a hair dryer and warm it up. Peels off easier but not perfect still.
I work for a university, 75$ it makes sense, it is 75$ for small stuff and 150$ for something bigger (something like you punched the wall). And you can also contact your insurance to get the charges covered
As a college grad, I peeped how you were pulling it in this. Same this happened to me. Next time try pulling up and toward the wall as opposed to away from it. It helped to keep it flat with my thumb as well.
Command strips are notorious for ripping off paint from walls. I had a couple that ripped off DRYWALL (yes, i did remove them correctly). Sometimes the strong hold is a little too strong
If its just minor scruffs and things that can be repaired easily like that its supposed to be considered regular type usage. Command hooks have taken off paint all the time. Most places have tons of touch up paint for whatever basic color they have. Its prob more of the maintenance time to do it 😊
Yeah i had command strips in my room There were a couple of them that pulled off paint and some of the wall so I don’t use them anymore. Also they were on the walls for at least 4 years and some for 2 years. I hung up satélite speakers and posters with them Just never again
unless the stretchy part rips, KEEP STRETCHING THE COMMAND STRIP. those things can be yards long so u wanna keep pulling until u can't no more before ripping. i learned the hard way too 😭😭
Just watched and my buggest suggestion if you use again is one hand against the strip on the walland oull like your trying to get the most stretchy piece of cheese pizza
The command strips did that same shiz to me too. IT stretches and stretches and stretches...until it snaps and stays on the freaken wall. Then I just have to yank it off and tear the paint off. I started using painters tape.
It says on the back of the command hook package that you need to pull it up to 30 cm that's a foot you need to pull it until it's a foot long. You need to pull it the length of a Subway sandwich you just keep pulling.
Command strips are supposed to stretch the entire way. If you look at the Velcro/hanger bit you can actually see them slowly come off. It’s worth it but just takes about a minute per strip
U have to hold the plastic part when u pull the command strip. It applies even pressure to the strip and allows it to release. I've litterally done this hundreds of times and have never damaged my walls. And some of those strips have been there for years
My dad cleans the dorms at universities and companies are on retainer more that likely it was for that specific job ie just carpet cleaning, paint, etc you may get a series of bills
As a part time summer job i repainted dorm rooms in college. Saw alot of command strip holes, all we were told to do was throw some spackle on the wall and paint over it.
That’s the difference from them using internal maintenance staff v an outside contractor. Outside contractors add travel time, time to buy the materials etc etc
Command strips have done me dirty several times. They are not the best for all applications. TBH using small nails and just spackling the holes when you move out is easier.
man they never charged me for mine lol same thing happened, the command strip messed up the wall (first time its ever happened me and never since then) but I never got a charge on my acct for it lol
command strips are supposed to stretch. my velcro strips stretch to a foot long sometimes when i take them down. that's how they don't damage the walls!
For future reference: use push pins. Just push them into the wall. A tiny hole does so much less damage (that you can fix yourself) than a command strip. They suck
Saw you on New Girl and was so happy cause I was like I know her from YT and started telling my bf about you (he is a film director, I’m a producer) and maybe our paths will cross in some work some day
I lived in this apartment complex for a bit and before I moved in part of the lease was literally "you will not use command strips(and then listed like generic names for them too) and if you do you will be charged". I dunno if it was like how hot it would get or the type of paint they used but I guess command strips trashed a lot of paint. Please never offer to pay more on a bill ma'am, colleges are predatory money monsters to begin with. They really don't even need your 75$ to fix it.
It’s cause it’s where they would have to repaint at the end of the year anyways. When I had my first dorm our walls peeled constantly because they never scraped the paint before repainting
Yeah that’s what you’ve gotta do with command strips, just keep pulling until it literally snaps the thing off and bruises your finger tips (speaking from experience)
Command strips are applied properly when you are able to grab them from the bottom of the original attachment and pull down slowly. If you were pulling up, you applied them incorrectly 😮
If it is in america rhwres certain wear and tear thats expected with a tenant and they cannot charge you for stuff like painting the whole place. So they'll charge just for the one tin of paint that it would take to do touch ups, further than that and it can go to small claims
It’s probably not that much because of your college is like mine. They hire students for cheap to clean up and touch up the dorms after move out day for like a week. It’s not expensive like getting contractors and dorms normally aren’t too fancy anyways.
Considering that when I was in college I also did maintenance for the university to help me pay for classes and they paid me less than $8/hour to fix things like this in rooms, I'm glad to hear they arent screwing even more college students over with inflated bills
Next year make sure you mark extra stains and marks when you move in. Thats what i always did, knowing id do something wrong moving out or during yhe year 😅
After we moved out of our dorm my three roommates and I were charged $50 each for a missing garbage can we all swore we didn’t take so we disputed the charges and they came back that we had to pay but what primo style garbage can were they buying that they needed $200 from us to replace it cause I can tell you right now it was just a plastic bin without a top.
yes, it's supposed to stretch. next time just keep pulling it parallel. you got this. also, I didn't see the original vid but I can't imagine repairing drywall to be any where near what people expected it to be. that's an easy fix without replacing all the walls that the lights were attached to. I'm happy it was less than you expected. big relief for sure
When I was in college I had a similar thing happen in like 2 or 3 spots on the wall and they charged me like $5-10 per damaged spot. It was like $20 total.
I lived in an apartment for 8 years and every unit around me got new stuff and renovated then when I moved out they tried to hit me with a 6300 damages bill. Then they got bought out and I got sent to collections
They're supposed to stretch you know? The way it works is that you stretch it to the point the backing comes off or it pops off cause there is no more product I've used this on my dorm, still in college btw and never had an issue.
Never use command strips in a dorm. They use cheap ass paint that's gonna peal even if you pull it off right. If its light enough, ALWAYS use thumb tacks and rub a little bar soap on it. Works weirdly well and you don't get charged for it
Y'all, READ YOUR HANDBOOK! My school literally encourages command hooks and says to not use thumb tacs and tape. They say to straight up leave the command hooks in place so that they'll be removed by a cleaner charge free at the end of the year.
My college tried to charge us for all sorts of things even stuff we didn’t do, I literally never pay any of the stuff they charge me for cause I don’t care they can’t do anything about it and I tell them your not charging me 50 dollars for a shower curtain being left behind that ridiculous and it wasn’t even my shower curtain
Command strips are supposed to stretch a lot. That’s how you get them off the wall. Instead of pulling them off all at once and ripping the paint, it stretches so it gently and slowly removes itself from the wall.
Sometimes the adhesive is just stronger than the paint. Dorms use the crappiest paint imaginable. Sometimes they also just break.
You also have to put pressure on the plastic
That works with good paint, but dorms use very low quality paint. Almost a plastic type that bubbles out, and then tears when adhesives are removed
Also a lot of brand recommend removing them and reinstalling every 6 months or so to avoid glue issues since in some climate the glue can be affected and my adhere better over a long period of time. That’s why they often come with a lot of extra adhesive strips
@@samanthakennedy121Yep. The surface it's stuck to has a lot to do with it, but she had no idea of knowing it would do all that.
It's only paint it cost about $75 to buy A gallon. Your good. Don't ask to pay more.
lmao where r u buying paint for that much. that's so expensive
@@mwwkwnwkmfor a GALLON. 75 is a good price for a gallon of good quality paint.
@mwwkwnwkm Probably depends on location. Here it's around 40 usd to 60ish.
Damn how many liter is gallon cus damn i work at a paint store in eurppe and am severly confusdd
She’s probably trying to make it to where her roommates don’t have to pay for the damage she caused, I thought exactly what you did at first too.
As someone who works at a residence hall and issues these exact charges, it’s usually always 75 for any kind of wall damage unless you like punched a whole in the wall or something way more noticeable but paint chips and or scratches are all under one category of 75$ :)
well shit i've been overcharged my whole life 😭
wait but what abt like thumbtack holes is that under the same category?
Depends on wether you have labour charge or not. Some places have fixed contracts and they can afford to not charge much .
@@evvieelmore usually the same category unless there’s like an outrageous number of them. But honestly most people don’t even look that close to see them
And they guessed 700 😂
They should've just taken a 0 away 😂
@@Kate_Chira fr
They tried to charge me 200 for a scratch that I did not even put there.
@@carliesell9317 😱
i’m not surprised they did, though. pretty sure she goes to usc, and that place is ridiculously expensive and selective. it’s a little crazy, but not TOO crazy to assume such an expensive university would charge close to a grand for wall damage. 😭
As an RA who has never gotten charged some tips and tricks:
Put masking tape under the command hook.
If the comand hook is already on the wall blast it with a hairdryer so that the glue will be easier to separate:)
yep! this works really well!
the command strips are supposed to keep stretching 😂 you stretch and stretch til it pops off finally, they are a bitch and a half but no damage normally! 🤣😭
I pulled it for like 5 mins 😭
I learned that those command strips are murder on plaster walls after Christmas 2.5 years ago.
@@MakaylaLysiak yeah, 5 minutes clearly wasn’t enough, keep pulling until it detaches. Geez.
@@alyssa2796 calm down dude
@@MakaylaLysiak you are meant to place them so that that part goes down so when you pull you pull from beneath or at least that is how the Australian ones are made and say to do on the box
Tip for command strips- use needlenose pliers and SLOWLY pull directly parellel to the wall. Pulling at an angle will just break the strip midway
Another thing they pull better with the tab down.
Because the often just slap another layer of paint onto dorms during the hot, humid summers with no primer or buff it never cures properly and will tear off no matter how careful you are about it lol
I've had to use a hair dryer to soften up command strips before. They make it seem so easy but if you have a/c on all the time or its winter they become a nightmare to remove. I use tons of painters tape now instead lol
ooo hair dryer that's smart
masking tape is a great idea, ty
Talk abouta a hella difference😭
Yeah it's not the command strips fault it's the way that a paint dorms, that use cheap paint and don't properly prep it, so it peels off easy
Just think of it as a blessing from GOD. I know I would lol
😂❤ yup
Yayyy I’m so glad it wasn’t too bad!!!
They usually bill whatever the contractor bills them hourly to do the patch and paint job. Since they were small it probably was between 2-4 hours of work so I feel like it checks out.
you sound like you want to be charged 😂
I just don’t want my roommates to be charged for damages they didn’t do
@@MakaylaLysiakthat’s so thoughtful of u 💗
Stretch until it's no longer sticky, just takes patience & gotta do it slowly rather than peel for the future!
They need to be stretched a lot and they slowly peel. Also using a hair dryer on them for a few seconds helps a lot too.
With the command strips it can help to press down on the plastic bit (not super hard just enough to keep it from moving) and pull the tape slowly but as parallel to the wall as possible. It will strech a lot but it wont damage the wall...unless the wall wasnt preped right for painting or for whatever reason the layers of paint under the top layer degraded (in that case damage is practically unavoidable though).
Command hooks need to pulled straight down without lifting up. Hard to do. Most people pull slightly away from the wall and this removes some paint and or wall material. You literally need to stay parallel with the wall and pull slowly. Sometimes they fail and rip and you still end up causing some damage.
I thought command stripps were suppose to be upside down as in pulling down not up. Am i wrong??
Command strips NEVER worked for me on walls that had been painted over numerous times; ie. college dorms.
Press down and pull until it comes off, never only pull it
When I ripped paint off my wall at uni I just bought a sample paint tin in the same colour and painted a few coats over it myself. They never noticed I didn’t pay a thing lol
Most places will revoke the charge too if you appeal/write back saying the damage falls under the terms of normal wear-and-tear. If there is nowhere on the lease that bans command strips since they are sold as an every-day appliance that won’t damage the walls, you can argue that the damage is due to to their improper painting/prepping of the apartment before move-in cuz, let’s be honest, no slumlord is gonna wash down the walls before repainting or bother applying the proper layers of paint, the reason why command strips rip apart those walls so bad is cuz there’s like 100 layers of paint+dust on there. this has happened to me at 2 apartments and both ended up revoking the charge and giving my full deposit back.
That’s ridiculous! Buy a small thing of plaster and a small paint sample in the color matched color of the wall. You’ll also need a piece of sand paper and a paint brush or roller and a small spatula to apply and smooth the plaster. You can buy all of that for less than $75 and fix many holes in your dorm over the years that you’re there.
I don't know why but $75 will empty my pockets if I were charged that... u rich girllllll????😂
i think she's more so relieved because it wasn't $700-$800 like she was expecting haha
It’s LA so…
Its just a bit of paint lmfao
We live in on post housing and the paint in this house is like awesome our dogs come scratched all the walls didn’t actually leave any marks gotta fix some stuff ourselves when we move but the blinds u can pick up from maintenance cat messed them up lol
Command strips got me too. My dad patched it. While it was drying my RA inspected my room and I stood in front of the patch. Didn't get charged.
Happened to my wall with them too. My paint is matte which isn’t good
I also use command strips when I was running and they’re not the same as they used to be. They do just keep stretching and then they rip off that drywall.
My dorm had a policy where if damage was clearly from command strips there was no charge 😊
THIS HAPOENED TO ME TOO i was moving apartments into the same complex just a different unit and i had a welcome sign hung up by a command strip and it ripped off the dry wall in a rectangle 😢 needless to say ill just be using nails from now on and i can just color match our paint in a tiny circle
Command strips are lowkey scary, they keep and keep stretching then they pop off and go full speed towards ur hand 😭
I had the same problem with command strips.
Command strips or any other wall strip tape things suck! The best way I found removing them is to use a hair dryer and warm it up. Peels off easier but not perfect still.
I love your videos!!! You are by far one of my favorite CZcamsrs (:
I work for a university, 75$ it makes sense, it is 75$ for small stuff and 150$ for something bigger (something like you punched the wall). And you can also contact your insurance to get the charges covered
I had some really cheap command hooks in my dorm room, the only way I was able to get them off is by heating the glue up with a blow dryer 😅
When you said Makayla that got me for a second because that’s my name lmao
As a college grad, I peeped how you were pulling it in this. Same this happened to me. Next time try pulling up and toward the wall as opposed to away from it. It helped to keep it flat with my thumb as well.
Command strips are notorious for ripping off paint from walls. I had a couple that ripped off DRYWALL (yes, i did remove them correctly). Sometimes the strong hold is a little too strong
If its just minor scruffs and things that can be repaired easily like that its supposed to be considered regular type usage. Command hooks have taken off paint all the time. Most places have tons of touch up paint for whatever basic color they have. Its prob more of the maintenance time to do it 😊
I don’t use command strips either. They once ripped a huge chunk of drywall off my wall.
Yeah i had command strips in my room
There were a couple of them that pulled off paint and some of the wall so I don’t use them anymore.
Also they were on the walls for at least 4 years and some for 2 years. I hung up satélite speakers and posters with them
Just never again
To get command strips off you stretch it while slowly swinging it left and right, don’t just pull it straight down.
unless the stretchy part rips, KEEP STRETCHING THE COMMAND STRIP. those things can be yards long so u wanna keep pulling until u can't no more before ripping. i learned the hard way too 😭😭
Just watched and my buggest suggestion if you use again is one hand against the strip on the walland oull like your trying to get the most stretchy piece of cheese pizza
Dorm rooms have a massive amount of layers of paint. Mine peeled if i looked at it wrong. This is not your fault.
The command strips did that same shiz to me too. IT stretches and stretches and stretches...until it snaps and stays on the freaken wall. Then I just have to yank it off and tear the paint off. I started using painters tape.
It says on the back of the command hook package that you need to pull it up to 30 cm that's a foot you need to pull it until it's a foot long. You need to pull it the length of a Subway sandwich you just keep pulling.
Command strips are supposed to stretch the entire way. If you look at the Velcro/hanger bit you can actually see them slowly come off. It’s worth it but just takes about a minute per strip
U have to hold the plastic part when u pull the command strip. It applies even pressure to the strip and allows it to release. I've litterally done this hundreds of times and have never damaged my walls. And some of those strips have been there for years
My dad cleans the dorms at universities and companies are on retainer more that likely it was for that specific job ie just carpet cleaning, paint, etc you may get a series of bills
Command strips literally stripped the paint off the walls of my appt years ago 😂😂😂 never trust those command strips!!!😂😂
For command strips you have to push on the hook and pull
As a part time summer job i repainted dorm rooms in college. Saw alot of command strip holes, all we were told to do was throw some spackle on the wall and paint over it.
That’s the difference from them using internal maintenance staff v an outside contractor. Outside contractors add travel time, time to buy the materials etc etc
Command strips have done me dirty several times. They are not the best for all applications. TBH using small nails and just spackling the holes when you move out is easier.
man they never charged me for mine lol same thing happened, the command strip messed up the wall (first time its ever happened me and never since then) but I never got a charge on my acct for it lol
command strips are supposed to stretch. my velcro strips stretch to a foot long sometimes when i take them down. that's how they don't damage the walls!
For future reference: use push pins. Just push them into the wall. A tiny hole does so much less damage (that you can fix yourself) than a command strip. They suck
I went to Home Depot with a sample of the chipped paint bought paint a buffer and a roller and repainted it hahah, less than $20
Omg hey, we have the same first name and spelled the exact same way XD
SAME
Saw you on New Girl and was so happy cause I was like I know her from YT and started telling my bf about you (he is a film director, I’m a producer) and maybe our paths will cross in some work some day
if you need to get command strips up, use a hair dryer to soften the glue and a razor blade if it still won't come up
Me putting peel and stick wallpaper on my wall at NYU in 2014 and it wrecking the walls and not getting charged 😂
Elmers has good sticky tacky. The blue sticky tacky is good. I’ve honestly never seen a command strip do that much damage 😮
I lived in this apartment complex for a bit and before I moved in part of the lease was literally "you will not use command strips(and then listed like generic names for them too) and if you do you will be charged". I dunno if it was like how hot it would get or the type of paint they used but I guess command strips trashed a lot of paint. Please never offer to pay more on a bill ma'am, colleges are predatory money monsters to begin with. They really don't even need your 75$ to fix it.
That’s insane!!! Ball State charged me almost 200$ for like two or three chips on the wall from command strips!!!!!!
It’s cause it’s where they would have to repaint at the end of the year anyways. When I had my first dorm our walls peeled constantly because they never scraped the paint before repainting
Yeah that’s what you’ve gotta do with command strips, just keep pulling until it literally snaps the thing off and bruises your finger tips (speaking from experience)
Still trust command strips. Pull down firstly, but also only paint damaged. Now nail repair…..
Honestly I just use painters/masking tape on my walls. It’s not supposed to damage walls further and it usually comes off pretty easily.
Command strips are applied properly when you are able to grab them from the bottom of the original attachment and pull down slowly. If you were pulling up, you applied them incorrectly 😮
For Command strips you pull up and away from the wall slowly. It normally shouldn’t leave any lasting damage to your walls.
If it is in america rhwres certain wear and tear thats expected with a tenant and they cannot charge you for stuff like painting the whole place. So they'll charge just for the one tin of paint that it would take to do touch ups, further than that and it can go to small claims
It’s probably not that much because of your college is like mine. They hire students for cheap to clean up and touch up the dorms after move out day for like a week. It’s not expensive like getting contractors and dorms normally aren’t too fancy anyways.
Considering that when I was in college I also did maintenance for the university to help me pay for classes and they paid me less than $8/hour to fix things like this in rooms, I'm glad to hear they arent screwing even more college students over with inflated bills
Next year make sure you mark extra stains and marks when you move in. Thats what i always did, knowing id do something wrong moving out or during yhe year 😅
My old dorm tried to charge me for my roommates damage and I took them to court Lmao
After we moved out of our dorm my three roommates and I were charged $50 each for a missing garbage can we all swore we didn’t take so we disputed the charges and they came back that we had to pay but what primo style garbage can were they buying that they needed $200 from us to replace it cause I can tell you right now it was just a plastic bin without a top.
HOLY SHIT MY GUESS WAS EXACT
I had some left over in my last apartment all the did was damage the paint. Won’t buy them again either
Give command strips a good blast with the hairdryer before taking it off and it'll come off much easier :)
can we take a minute to appreciate Makayla taking accountability and making sure her roommates don't get charged 🙌🏽🫶🏽👏🏽
Good job
yes, it's supposed to stretch. next time just keep pulling it parallel. you got this. also, I didn't see the original vid but I can't imagine repairing drywall to be any where near what people expected it to be. that's an easy fix without replacing all the walls that the lights were attached to. I'm happy it was less than you expected. big relief for sure
When I was in college I had a similar thing happen in like 2 or 3 spots on the wall and they charged me like $5-10 per damaged spot. It was like $20 total.
I think it’s the type of wall and the paint that affects the ability to take it off properly
My daughter has PCOS and ruined a mattress when she was in college. They charged us $500. Like it was some special expensive mattress 😡
I lived in an apartment for 8 years and every unit around me got new stuff and renovated then when I moved out they tried to hit me with a 6300 damages bill. Then they got bought out and I got sent to collections
Do your best and expect the worst
Man they said just put paint over it it be fine 😂
They're supposed to stretch you know? The way it works is that you stretch it to the point the backing comes off or it pops off cause there is no more product
I've used this on my dorm, still in college btw and never had an issue.
Try putting painters tape on before a command strip!
Never use command strips in a dorm. They use cheap ass paint that's gonna peal even if you pull it off right. If its light enough, ALWAYS use thumb tacks and rub a little bar soap on it. Works weirdly well and you don't get charged for it
Maybe next time hold the plastic hanger in place while pulling the strip as straight up or down as possible. I’ve learned the hard way.
Y'all, READ YOUR HANDBOOK! My school literally encourages command hooks and says to not use thumb tacs and tape. They say to straight up leave the command hooks in place so that they'll be removed by a cleaner charge free at the end of the year.
Command strips come off better with a hair dryer I've heard
My college tried to charge us for all sorts of things even stuff we didn’t do, I literally never pay any of the stuff they charge me for cause I don’t care they can’t do anything about it and I tell them your not charging me 50 dollars for a shower curtain being left behind that ridiculous and it wasn’t even my shower curtain