How do you remove butterfly hooks from a wall?

The kind of hooks you hang so that you don't need a stud; they just open up like "wings" and support themselves to the back of the drywall in side the wall so that you can hang things. How do you get them out of the wall?

How do you remove butterfly hooks from a wall?
It's a messy job to remove them and it's usually best to recess them slightly, using a hammer and, say a bolt or something flat ended, just slightly larger than the diameter


of the shaft of the hook, then fill and touch up the depression.


Try not to knock them right through because that makes more of a hole to fill.
Reply:remove the bolt and let the wing drop behind the plasterboard then put some filler on the hole
Reply:the first answer is correct (though I've always heard them called "toggle bolts")...I would add that you need to maintain the pressure of the toggle against the inside of the dry wall as you're unscrewing it or it will just spin around. I've always found it helpful to hold the bolt loosely in the jaws of a pair of pliers to maintain that outward pressure while unscrewing it.
Reply:Those're called 'Molly Bolts'.


You don't get them out of the wall.


Once you unscrew the central toggle bolt, the spring action wingnut drops off, falling between the interior wallspace, never again to be seen.


Buy another one.
Reply:For the least damage do the following: Unscrew the bolt a few turns. Using a bolt or linesman pliers, cut the head off the screw. push the clipped screw through the wall. You now have smaller hole to spackle. You will never be able to salvage the molly bolt without wrecking the wall!
Reply:I would just push them through and patch over the small whole. We really messed up a wall with butterfly hooks.
Reply:You'll have to drill them out (same size drill as part of hook poking through wall) piece will drop inside wall (no problem).


Get some spackling compound and fill hole, a little excess. When dry sand smooth and paint.



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