Cut Off Top Half of Cracked Bathroom Mirror?

Mirror is about five feet wide x four feet tall. Crack is in the top half, about two feet long, terminating at an edge. What are the chances a professional can cut the top half of the mirror off, leaving the bottom intact?

Caution to others: I cracked the mirror when I was re-installing a light fixture. A drywall screw passes through the mirror and into a stud. I must have overtightened. A few hours later, the crack appeared.

Reply to
honda.lioness
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Trivial thing if you can take the mirror down.

Reply to
gfretwell

'Bout 100% -- if don't want to try to cut too close to the break; very small cutoffs are difficult to near impossible to get clean edge.

But, of course, you're wanting to save all the unbroken piece. :)

Reply to
dpb

On Mon, 8 May 2017 21:42:08 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote in

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Reply to
CRNG

My pleasure, Oren, Ed, and CRNG.

A bit more: The original mirror had roughly 4 feet x 2-inch trim pieces, on e on each vertical side of the mirror, attached with double-sided tape. The trim's long edges are beautifully beveled. Today I marked the new length o f the trim that I wanted with a sharpie marker; put on safety glasses, thic k gloves, and a breathing mask; and etched the trim using a 3/4-inch diamet er diamond rotary cutting disc. The disc was mounted on my ordinary Black a nd Decker electric hand drill using the mandrel that came with the discs. I bought these little discs at Harbor Freight some years ago for a metal pro ject. See

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9657.html . The discs were not helpful for the metal project. They were gre at for cutting these mirror trim pieces.

I put the trim on the sharp edge of a work table, tapped on the back a litt le with an ordinary hammer, flipped the trim, and easily snapped it to the marked length. I sanded the cuts a bit with 100-grit sandpaper. After some practice with scraps, the last cut I did is so good it is hard to tell the difference between it and the professionally done ends.

Reply to
honda.lioness

Good job, I didn't think it could be done, I know I would not have been successful. Thanks for the follow up.

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Tekkie?

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