Cracked mirrored door in bathroom cabinet

Richard Conway said the following on 21/11/2005 09:18:

Take the broken door to your friendly local glazier and get a price for a replacement. They should be able to cut, drill and bevel the edges for you (and if not, will direct you to a local firm who can)- hopefully for less than £30 :-).

p.s. Make sure you impress upon them that the mirror glass needs to be the same thickness, so the replacement door will fit into the hinge arrangement properly.

Any _good_ local glazier. I'd suggest Roman Glass if you're near Bristol / Bath.

Beveling the edges costs money, but not that much.

Go and see your glazier.

It isn't beveled, its just a flat pane of mirrored glass - hopefully shoudln't be too dear then. I live round the corner from one so I'll wonder round one day and see what they reckon.

Cheers.

find a mirror over size, take it to glazier and ask him to cut it to size and round off the edges, far cheap probably cost a tenner rather than £20/25

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

No sensible glazier will cut old glass.

What does a sensible glazier look like?

Its a mirror not glass and most small glaziers don't stock mirrors as this is normally to order, it being an expensive commodity.

-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

Why not? The ones I've dealt with will do so without any problem at all.

Old glass is harder to cut reliably. Any glass has a risk when cutting it and you do lose the odd piece from time to time. You're also dealing with a customer who is clearly a cheapskate.

Cutting glass is cheap. So would you risk a tuppenny job of cutting someone else's glass when you know that any problem with it is going to give you a stroppy git who wants a replacement for free?

It makes very little difference whether the glass is new or old.

Normally the risk is stated, and accepted/declined.

Seven years' bad luck ...

(The glazier is probably a more sensible suggestion.)

Owain

But the mirror /is/ the door.

Oh arr. Well, if the OP doesn't want the TCP and dental floss on display to casual callers on open shelves, replace doors with some nice practical plywood.

Owain

After having a conversation once where several people admitted to snooping in bathroom cabinets when they were visiting other people's houses (go on, I bit someone here has done it!), I thought it might be a laugh to put an alarm on it, so that when people come round you can catch them at it. Just to cause embarrassment really :)