Mounting a LED mirror

The self tappers look ok to me. The heads look just about big enough not to come out of the slots. Do you have anything a tad bigger?

The holes are quite clever, as they give a bit of horizontal wiggle room.

Sorry the self tappers are part of the mirror to cover the gubbins. The holes and slots are for mounting the whole mirror.

I suppose if I used a screw with a large enough head I can see your point. The ones supplied have a way too small head!

Pretty clearly, something is supposed to go in that hole and slide up into the slot. (Stop sniggering at the back, there!)

I assume that there's some sort of hook supplied with the mirror for that purpose, and a photo of that would help. Or even, a photo of the relevant bit of the instructions?

I assumed there would be a bracket. It's designed to mount flat onto a bathroom wall. It has lighting and demisting pad.

It there are only two fixing that look like that then it's two pan headed screws, a bit of friction and hope no-one knocks it sideways.

I would have expected a securing screw below the mirror

Or a bit of self adhesive velco at the bottom just to stop any movement

I've got a large, but very lightweight, mirror fixed to the tiles in my bathroom just with 3M Command strips which are just adhesive hook and eye (velco) tape but rather stiffer in construction. In a couple of years the mirror hasn't moved :)

That's right, two pan head screws and some awful rawlplugs. Not really fit for purpose and a head size spelling disaster!

The mirror is quite substantive, 35mm deep and 700 x 900mm. It would take a quite a knock to push it off any screws!

I think many screws supplied, like those for door bells etc, are all designed to be completely useless. I have thought this from the late 60s, so why they bother and don't simply specify what is needed is quite impossible to fathom. Brian

This is where washers come in handy, provided you have the depth. Brian

Trouble with washers is they move and not attached to the screw head.

They end up between the wall and the fitting, rather than between the screw and fitting.

Nope, they do it because that's cheaper, stupid.

The trick is - IMHO when mounting stuff like this - is to drill one of the screw holes at a small angle. You can then use that screw (after many attempts) to get the mirror level and let the screw heads match up with the slotted holes on the mirror.

I have also been known to "gently bend" one of the mounting screws with a hammer to get the same effect.

All points noted that the screws and plugs that came with your mirror were s**te and might not like the hammer.

All the best with it.

Many thanks.

After all the preparation and the initial question I need to fit the mirror in a portrait orientation and now realise the slots are for landscape only.

The mounting rails are boxed with no access for a nut fastener, so I've decided the best way forward is to use rivnuts and a picture frame mounting.

I also plan to use Rawlplug Hollow Wall Anchors in the wall.