Hi All,
Does anyone know of a lightweight bathroom mirror to stick on tiles - I know you can get mirrors that are professionally affixed to tiles with glue like this but I wondered if there was a DIY solution - if so where from? I don't want it to look too cheap.
Rgds, Tom
No such thing as lightweight mirrors, unless you go to thin plastic, then you've no hope of maintaining a usefully undistorted image.
Why do you want lightweight though? Standard fixings normally work on tiled walls just fine.
NT
An inset mirror looks great, can be a bummer if it gets broken though.
Drilling tiles is pretty easy, use a small drill bit to start and some tape to stop it wandering, then work your way up drill bit sizes until you have the right size hole. That's how I do it anyway, I don't like to go straight in with a large drill bit as in the past it has caused tiles to crack (dot and dabbed instead of an even spread).
Tile drill bits are very cheap now
NT
My parents have a large (and I presume heavy) mirror stuck to their bathroom wall with those double sided felt pads. I was sceptical when they put it up that way, but that was about 35 years ago, and it's still there.
Do these (I presume) stick on pads still exist for mirrors to be stuck on tiles? If so, where from? Tom
I got a bevelled mirror about 18" x 12" in a chrome frame. To attach it to the bathroom tiles I glued to the tiles with Araldite a couple of thin metal hooks which lie inside the frame and support its top edge, which has a bit of a lip at the back. I then attached a couple of pieces of Velcro at the bottom to stop the mirror flopping about. This holds the mirror firmly to the wall; to detach it I simply pull the Velcro apart at the bottom and lift the mirror off the hooks.
The hooks were from B&Q (ages ago) and consist of two offset 'blades' intended to engage with a corresponding hook with one blade, very slightly resembling a microphone hanger for a two-way radio, IYSWIM.
You can get mirror glue from glaziers for sticking to tiles. Its formulated to not attack the silvering on the back. Simon.
doesn't need to be lightweight: juts get some mirror glue and go.
All the glazing shops here sell it. You need to fix it while the glue dries somehow tho
The previous owners of this place stuck various bits of mirror(*) on with the ordinary foam double sided sticky fixers. No sign of damage to the silvering and the mirrors where difficult to remove, had to cut through the foam pad rather than the adhesive letting go.
(*) Most 10" square mirror tiles but one dress mirror about 10 x 30". The square ones just had 4 1" pads the bigger one half a dozen.
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