coat hooks stuck to wall

[potato80]

Hi all

Any ideas how on earth this piece of wood is attached to the wall? I want to remove it, but having taken the hooks themselves off, and tried to prise it off with a crowbar (it just seems to break the wood!), I'm at a loss how it could be attached

Any ideas?

No More Nails? Hidden screws?

Thanks in advance

 

[footprints]

Cut nails or screws that might even be a rusty head showing through on last pic.
Scrape / sand the paint to reveal the heads or do what most builders would get a large wood chisel and split the timber, start working from about 1" from the edge.
You will end up with just the nails / screws to remove.

 

[foxhole]

Probably just screws hidden under layers of paint [looks like a poorly fill screw hole on the last pic]

 

[potato80]

Cheers for the replies guys. I'll try sanding it

 

[footprints]

Just to be safe avoid inhaling too much dust there might be a small lead content in any old oil based paint.
Not a major risk (I must have inhaled a fair bit myself over the years) but worth thinking about.

 

[ladylola]

Simple question but have you removed all the coat hooks? I know I tend to try to put fixings behind the hooks to hide them . As to removal unless the timber is something exotic under that paint I'd go with the advice to just split it off.