Cutting mirror wardrobe door

We have two large bedroom wardrobes with old sliding mirror doors (these easily predate our ownership - must be 20+ years old?). I've just removed the wardrobe in one room but have retained the doors, because in the other room, the mirrors in two of the doors are cracked... these are shorter (same width) than the two I've just de-installed, so I thought wouldn't it be a good idea to chop the two spare big ones down to size, to replace the cracked ones?

Before I start, I'm wondering how feasible this is likely to be? Will this be toughened glass, which will presuambly mean that score'n snap won't work? Or does the fact that two doors have managed to have been cracked (due to visiting nephews slamming them AFAIK!), and the fact that they have some sort of plastic mesh reinforcement glued to the back, mean that they are just normal glass?

So, once I'd got the glass out of the frames, I was going to try score'n snapping them using a glass cutting wheel thing - is that right? These are big panes, about 2.2m x 1.2m.

Thanks David

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Lobster
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Probably easiest to just lay it flat on the carpet for cutting. Lubricate the cutting wheel by dipping in white spirit or meths. Then stand the glass on edge and slit the plastic with a knife.

IME it's when the score isn't continuous that the glass won't snap easily, and that's usually due to excess pressure, which in turn is due to anxiety about getting a continuous score etc etc.

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Stuart Noble

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