Can I hold up a light bathroom mirror reasonably safely on a tiled wall (the tiles seeming very secure) without drilling any holes, eg using some kind of adhesive?
Is this often done?
Can I hold up a light bathroom mirror reasonably safely on a tiled wall (the tiles seeming very secure) without drilling any holes, eg using some kind of adhesive?
Is this often done?
Silicone or gripfil should do the job providing it's done correctly
Cheers
Richard
I put up a full-length mirror in a bedroom with mirror fixing pads, sold with the mirror, about 15 years ago and it is still up.
Colin Bignell
Yes, but you can get special mirror-fixing adhesive
because apparently ordinary stuff can attack the mirror silvering
David
Silicone - run a thick bead round the back a couple of inches in from the edge and perhaps one or two across if its a big mirror. Push into place, level it, and use gaffer tape to hold in position until set.
If you need to remove it you can get a fishing wire behind it and use a sawing action to cut the silicone.
Try something like this
Silicon might attack the silvering. Any solvent might ruin a mirror and straining its finished back mechanically might do that too.
Support the glass with a suitable fixing and use glue on the fixing if you must. No mention of mirror fixtures on here:
Yes, and yes
Get the correct adhesive from a glazing supplier.
The Natural Philosopher wrote
I'm curious... What size of mirror would this stuff hold? 3 ft by 2 ft?
6 ft by 4 ft? 8 by 4?With a bigger mirror, there's obviously an increase in weight, but there's also an increased area for the adhesive to grab onto. I wonder at what point does the 'volume vs area' relationship cross over into the 'I Wouldn't Stand Under That!' territory?
I asked the same question recently whwn planning to stick up a pretty massive bathroom mirror [1]... IIRC the response was that it doesn't matter provided you use the same amount of glue per unit area of mirror. Which makes sense if you think about it: there's no "volume" issue to consider here.
The only issue might be if the glass specified for a larger mirror might be thicker - which is quite likely - and then of course the *weight* per unit area of mirror goes up, and the answer might be different.
David
[1] No I haven't yet got around to that particular job yet!Lobster wrote
Oh, of course, yes. (D'oh!)
I've just had a look at a mirror that I'm thinking about putting up and it's got a steel frame behind it. The 4 ft x 3 ft mirror glass is stuck to the frame with what looks like six 6" strips of double-sided adhesive pads.
Hmmm... I may cut the mirror off and stick it directly to my tiled wall.
I'll report back if it falls off!
Ive used the DS pads with mixed success.
Removing one mirror broke it in half..another one on plaster came way a darn sight to easily.
I think they are good on tiles, but I'd use the glue on plasterboard.
Glue is also thinner - it looks a bit better.
The Natural Philosopher wrote
My (self) tiled walls aren't sufficiently ripple free to make the thinner layers of glue look better than DS pads.
SWMBO is still deciding *exactly* where it should go.
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