My workplace is getting renovated and these 3 beautiful wall mirrors are going to go (approx 9ft by 4 ft). How can I get them off the wall if I don't know how they are mounted? I would prefer to do minimum damage to the wall and mirrors.
How to get this large mirror off the wall
The 3 mirrors are mounted side by side. The left and right edges and bottom have an aluminum frame. The top doesn't. I don't care about sparing the frame.
Aren't these kind of ceiling not solid, as in if you get up on a ladder and press up, you'll lift the panels that are held down by only gravity? This could expose a gap between the mirror and the wall.
Yes, these are drop ceilings. I'll have to procure a ladder, pop a ceiling tile and take a look.
Don't know how much of a gap there is though.
Imagine if the glued them on with construction adhesive.
Apparently you can use long wooden shims/stakes to pry the mirror off the wall and loosen the glue?
if its framed, its probably not glued.
idk if theres space other side - I'd hope so - but if so remove that (right hand if looking at photo) frame side and slide out. Carefully. It would be safer glued (obv) but if it is, I'd write that shit off as a bad job. Once had to remove entire walls of cemented-in mirror bits, like mirrorball size, from a nightclub covered in the shit. And that was not a fun job.
dont try alone either.
Thanks for the feedback. There is no space. The 3 mirrors take up the entire wall.
Hammer chipper, they are basically tile. I hope you wore a lot of PPE, coveralls, positive pressure ventilation...
Piano wire.
If they're getting the place redone tell them you're going to hang new drywall. Get the garbage 1/4" stuff, it only has to pass a sniff test. The reno guys are going to tear it down if they had to take the mirror out. The contractor will probably allocate more labour to demolishing it and get rid of the mirror glass than it would cost in drywall to patch the wall, so you might even get the company to pay for the materials.
Now, about them allowing you to do the work yourself, for a lot of companies this is a huge liability. You drop the mirror and a shard slices your face, you fall off the ladder and break your leg in multiple spots, you strain your back by lifting the mirror... if I owned a company, I would not let an employee do that for reasons of liability.
Your safest option I guess would be to hire, in the name of your company and ask for a quote for removing the mirror. If they ask whether you're keeping the mirror glass, tell them no. When you get the quote ask them how much more it would cost to save the mirror, and tell them that you will pay that out of your pocket. This way, if they end up breaking the mirrors, you do not have to pay them, and your boss is happy either way.
> piano wire
I used all my piano wire for making garrottes.
> hire someone
This is diy.
They have to evacuate the entire continent if someone finds asbestos or lead paint nowadays.
Easiest thing to do is glue some furring blocks onto the mirror and drywall over it. You should have thought of that first and you’d already be done.
t. Actual contractor
yeah sounds like some Black person shit having half the wall out an inch further up top, and will guarantee you cant hang anything on the wall like a TV. stick to fricking up your own house moron
You think they will notice a missing 6" of room? Never.
It only has to last as long as their cheque clears.
You people watch too much TV anyway.
Just cut the entire drywall off and replace it.
A mirror this size is around 120 lbs for 1/4 thickness, 175 lbs for 3/8 thickness. It's probably glued on the drywall.
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Wow, that is much heavier than I thought. Better get the wife to help me. She has a strong back. Also, I don't know if it will be able to support itself or just shatter the first time I try to move it.
Sounds excessive. Maybe I could just leave the wall out and no one would notice.
Take a picture bent over from between your legs. I want to see yer butt hole. Only then will your answers be revealed.
Try to pry it off. You have 3 mirrors to play with so it's okay if one breaks.
Quit bolting/gluing things to the wall.
If your house is destroyed, you can take your mirror with you (if nothing else)
Mirrors aren't really beautiful. The mirror is only beautiful when a beautiful thing is presented to it. Even then it's not really the mirror that has the beauty it's the thing that it's reflecting.
have you tried catching the contractor in the hall? chances are if you can catch the foreman in the hall when he's doing a walk through, he'll probably take em off and load em up for you.
They’re probably one-way mirrors so they can make sure everyone is continuously working and tabulate the number of seconds everyone’s bathroom breaks took
t. work at an israili company