Re: Help - mirror removal

"PAUL100" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >Subject: Help - mirror removal
> >From: "Neil Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Date: 11/28/2003 11:45 PM Eastern Standard Time
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> >I'm stuck trying to remove a mirror from my bathroom wall.
>
> The mirror is probably glued on.  take a piece or thin piano wire and run
it
> behind the mirrow and try cutting the glue with a sawing motion.  it might
help

Thanks for the replies, folks. I bought some twisted steel wire but when
I tried sawing it got extremely sticky and coated with black goo. So I
went to plan B - I taped up the mirror with duct tape and pried it off with
a hammer.

It turned out to be glued on to wall as you guessed. But it was glued on
with 5 big patches (3"x4") of heavy black construction adhesive - the
stuff looked like tar. There was no way I was ever going to saw through
it in this lifetime. The glue pulled the paper off the drywall, so I
spackled it up and am now good to go.

I think the construction crew that built my house (and installed the
mirror) went way overboard - the bracket on the bottom was
screwed in well enough to support the weight of the mirror, plus there
were four additional decorative plastic brackets at the corners of the
mirror holding it to the wall, so the extra glue was really uncalled for,
not to mention five huge gobs of it.

Thanks,

--Neil