Acrylic mirror sheeting

It needs to be fixed to a totally flat rigid background, If not, you get the fairground distorting mirror effect.

I have some large acrylic mirrors and in some lighting conditions they can have subtle milky appearance especially if viewed at an angle other than 90 degrees to their surface. This effect is noticeable when the sun is shining through my windows on to the mirrors.

I might be misremembering, but didn't the Medway Handyman have a job to fix it to all the ceilings in a local house? Had to wait around out of sight until clients had finished using some of the rooms...

I remember he had something like that. But then it was Medway...

It can but the devil is in the details. To get it flat you have to support it somehow and if you don't do it right the glue will rip the mirror surface off the back. Especially true of the thinner stuff.

Also plastic expands and contracts a lot more than glass.

It is widely used by model makers.

That's particularly relevant for my potential use; thanks.

And thanks to everyone else for the responses and tips.

Thanks, Martin. The expansion thing is a good point. And I might be looking at a sizeable sheet.

Yes its slightly bendy. I remember back in the late 60s, when colour tvs were first made, you had to adjust the convergence of the three beams from behind the tv. The ladies that did this, looked at the screen in a mirror made of a very tightly stretched reflective polyester sheet, surface silvered. These were fun to play with but they were used mainly cos they were cheap and did not have the nasty prismatic effects of glass silvered on the back. You needed accurate reflections of the colours to tell when the job was done. Most women seemed far better at doing this than the blokes, much to many peoples annoyance. Brian

It's commonly used to provide large mirrors in horse riding arenas, it may be worth adding this into your search terms if you havn't come across these suppliers. I've also heard of people putting mirror finished stainless steel sheet into horse stables (this is for the benefit of the horses rather than the riders as in the other case). But these are *very* expensive.

Thanks for that. My possible job certainly wouldn't justify the expense of mirror-finish stainless steel, but the stables/riding arena line of investigation is a good tip.