Mirrors

A mirror bought as a product comes in one of five sizes and looks like a product hung on a wall. A mirror cut to the space, wall to wall, or the full width of an alcove, reads as part of the room.

The work is in the measuring and in the cut-outs, because a bathroom wall is rarely empty by the time the mirror goes on it.

Silvered mirror cut to the surveyed size with polished edges, and a cut-out where a fitting passes through it, around a heated towel rail in one of these.

One is bevelled. The pair in the panelled room are simply cut to fill their alcoves, edge to edge, which is the whole trick.

4mm or 6mm silvered mirror. In a bathroom or a wet room the silvering is a moisture-resistant grade, so it does not corrode back from the edges in the damp; where safety matters the mirror is also safety-backed, so the glass is held together if it is ever broken.

Edges are polished as standard and bevelled on request. The edgework, cut-outs and drilled holes are all workshop jobs rather than site work.

Glass

4–6mm silvered mirror

Bathroom grade

Safety-backed

Edges

Polished as standard, bevelled on request

Cut-outs

Made in the workshop, never on site

Fixing

Mirror adhesive, or drilled for screws and caps