The bathroom without a mirror is impossible to even imagine. This accessory is not only functional, he also decorate the interior. Installing the mirror in the bathroom - a responsible event that requires patience and accuracy. For durable mounting of the mirror, you can choose different methods. Let us consider in detail the most popular methods.

The mirror is installed in any room site like. However, that its location is most successful, it is worth considering several very simple rules:

• The distance from the floor to the upper edge of the accessory must be at least 1.7 m, which corresponds to the average growth of an adult.

Figure is clearly seen what height is optimal for middle growth.

• The mirror should hang strictly vertically, otherwise the image will be distorted.
• The width of the selected accessory is caused by the general design of the room.

The mirror is not only the necessary accessory, but also the decoration of the bathroom

• If you want to see my image in full growth, you should buy a product with a height of 140 cm. For the belt, there will be enough height of 60 cm. To see only the face and shoulders, choose a height of 40 cm.

• To avoid quick accumulation of the accessory, the fastening of the mirror in the bathroom is carried out as far as possible from heat sources.
• The lower edge of the accessory installed above the sink should be higher than its level at least 20 cm. Otherwise, drops and splashes will constantly fall on the glass and soak it.

Functional dimensions of mirrors and their height from the floor: a - for use standing, reflection in full growth, b - the same, reflection on the belt,

Observing these simple rules, it is easy to choose the most good place to locate the mirror.

How to attach a mirror in the bathroom: 3 proven method

There are several fastening methods. The choice depends on the material of the wall finishing to which the accessory, its weight and dimensions will be attached.

Montage for special glue

Small in size and weight design can be "planted" for glue. The main advantage of this method is the lack of fasteners on the front surface of the accessory. To work, you will need adhesive sealant or special liquid nails marked "for the mirror". These compositions do not spoil the amalgam and at the same time ensure sufficient compound strength. It is necessary to be very attentive because funds not intended for these purposes may irreparably spoil the mirror surface or poorly fix the product.

Before gluing the mirror in the bathroom, you must prepare the surface. If mounting on top of the tile is supposed, it needs to be cleaned of possible contaminants and degrease. If you plan to install a thread with a tile, part of the cladding will have to be dismantled. The liberated surface must be sharpened and primed. Any other basis is prepared similarly. Need to remember that glue the mirror on acrylic paint, putty or stucco is categorically impossible. These coatings destroy Amalgam. The glue is applied to the back surface of the accessory. Then the mirror is pressed against the wall and fixed in this position for 10-15 minutes. Before setting glue.

Application of glue on the back of the mirror

Installation on screws

There is another way to install a mirror in the bathroom. It is used for more massive accessories. For such installation, special decorative screws are needed, which can come with a product. Choosing decorative plugs to such mounts, you need to try to choose the elements as suitable to the decor of the room.

Type of standard mirror mount

It is easy enough to do it, because you can find plugs of various shapes and colors. The number of fasteners is determined by the dimensions and weight of the mirror. The more product dimensions, the greater the fasteners elements should be.

Reliable mirror mount

It must be remembered that the attachments for the mirror in the bathroom suggest not only screws or dowels, but also rubber gaskets. Elements are mandatory installed between the wall and the mirror, as well as between the front surface of the accessory and the fastener plug. Some products are already sold with finished holes under the fasteners. it perfect optionwhich does not require special hassle during installation.

Mounting Mirror Scheme without additional accessories

If there are no such holes, they will have to drill on their own. This is very painstaking work. It is performed using a diamond drill of the desired diameter. In the process of drilling, it is necessary to constantly cool the surface of the mirror with water to avoid the appearance of unwanted cracks. The finished holes are grinding, after which you can install the accessory.

Special ornamental mounting for mirror mounting

Construction tape

Among the most simple methods The method of attachment to bilateral scotch. It is suitable for light products. How to attach a mirror in the bathroom to the tape? Scotch is cut to the bands of the desired size and is glued on the reverse side of the product. Then the protection is removed from the adhesive side, and the mirror is tightly pressed against the wall. When choosing this method, you do not need to forget that the tape must be moisture-resistant, otherwise the connection will collapse very quickly.

Sometimes even simple, it would seem, the tasks are put in a dead end. For example: hang mirror on the wall of the bathroom, hallway, dressing room, on the door of the cabinet. How if there is no frame or any other fasteners? In fact, the fastening of the mirror to the wall is an easy task. If you know ways and methods.

Molding Mirrors Mirrors

During the repair or arrangement of the apartment, at home sometimes it is necessary to fix the mirror on which there is no frame. Recently, this is the most popular way of design. In general, the fastening methods are five. Choose them depending on the type of base, to which the installation will be made, and the area of \u200b\u200bthe mirror surface. You can hang the mirror in the following ways:

• Glit to the surface with special glue or sealant glue.
• Install special holders on the wall.
• In the mirror, drill holes, fasten through them to the wall or furniture door. You can use conventional tapping screws, but there is a special fastener with plastic compensators that do not "drag" fasteners and protect the cracks.

• Install the decorative profile on the wall, to omit the bottom edge of the mirror, the top to secure one of the described methods.
• Holding on special adhesion (3M mounting tape).
• Fastening the mirror to the wall without drilling is possible only for glue or special bilateral tape. This may be required when installing on plasterboard wallPartitions from foam blocks, other materials with low bearing capacity. This method is useful and if you don't want to spoil the tile, the furniture door, etc. All other methods are associated with drilling holes.

At what height

The installation height of the mirror depends on the place of installation and its destination. It is hung in the bathroom so that the middle of the mirror surface is at the level of the eye. Growth in living can be different, but on average center is located at a height of 160-165 cm from the floor.

When hanging in the hallway, the mirrors usually set long and narrow. In them, a person should be displayed in full growth. To do this, its upper edge must be slightly above the head - by 3-5 cm. When hanging on the cabinet door, as a reference point uses its upper edge. If the cabinet is high, the mirror is also fixed by several centimeters above the head.

Mirror holders and installation methods

If after a while the mirror will have to remove / replace, it is more convenient to install it on holders. They are two types:

• cross-cutting;
• nursup (ordinary).

Non-core holders for the mirror are installed on the wall or door. Then the edge of the mirror is then inserted into them. They can be attached almost close to the wall / door plane, and can be with a removal. In the second variant between the wall and the mirror there is a gap from 5 mm to several centimeters. It saves if necessary installation on uneven walls.

When using conventional holders, they put two at the bottom (if the mirror is small, you can put one at the bottom - in the center), two on the sides. When installing, it is necessary to thoroughly measure and postpone the dimensions. Bottom holders are located strictly horizontally at an equal distance from the edge, and the side put on so that the edge of the mirror is easy to go to their grooves. In this case, it should not fall out even with the maximum shift in one of the sides. Typically, the setting distance of the holders should be 2-3 mm wide than the mirror, but may be options - depending on the design of the holders.

Another option is two at the top and bottom. In this case, the distance between the fastener is also a couple of millimeters greater than the height of the mirror.

Throughholders use if there are holes under fasteners in the mirror surface. They can be done in the glass workshop. The holders themselves are ordinary self-tapping screws or dowel-nails with plastic lining and decorative caps of different shapes and diameters.

They are installed as ordinary dowels. First, the holes are placed on the installation (apply the mirror to the wall, a pencil or marker to make a mark), the holes are drilled, plastic plugs under a dowel are installed. Then fasteners with a plastic plug, it is loaded through the hole in the mirror surface and is installed in place. The final stage is the installation of decorative linings.

Mounting mirror to the wall with glue

It is easy to install fasteners in each wall. For example, to hang something on plasterboard partitions or walls, it is necessary or installed fasteners in the place where profile passes, or use special butterfly dowels. Each such mount is withstanding about 20 kg. To mount the mirror of this enough, but not everyone wants to sleep with a wall. If the walls are smooth or mirror need to be installed on the cabinet door, another object of furniture, it can be glued.

What glue to choose

For installation, special glue is used, which is called - "glue for mirrors". They differ from ordinary in that they do not damage the amalgam coating. Important moment It is that the composition should have a good adhesion (grip) with the surface that you are gathered to glue the mirror.

Here are some names of popular compositions:

The compositions may still be much, described the most common. They quickly "grab", but the final drying occurs only after 72 hours or more.

What else can you glue

Neutral silicone sealant is suitable for gluing mirrors. It has excellent adhesive ability and does not damage the amalgam. According to the cost of glue for mirrors and silicone sealant approximately the same, the setting time is also about the same. When choosing, be careful: acidic (acetic) silicone sealants destroy the amalgam. Therefore, carefully read the composition and scope.

Any composition is suitable, but to attach a mirror to the bathroom wall it is better to take with anti-grib additives. This will warn the development of fungi and mold. Also in wet rooms you can use silicone for aquariums. It is always made on the basis of silicone, neutral, it does not appear fungi and mold. The cost may be a bit more expensive than ordinary sanitary silicone.

Technology gluing

Fastening the mirror to the wall with glue procedure is simple, but there are some points that you need to know. Before gluing the surface on which the mirror will be glued, and its back side is cleaned of dirt, dust, degreases (wipe the alcohol, wash and dry and dry). A band of glue is applied to the "snake" mirror, pressed against the wall at the installation site. The adhesive composition can be applied and spotted in a checker order along all surfaces. Such a fastening of the mirror to the wall is secure, but if necessary, it will be necessary to break it, it will be necessary to clean the glue with a spatula, install a new one.

To hang it smoothly, you can pre-hold a line on which the lower or side edge is roving.

When gluing mirrors of a large area, the technology changes slightly. Glue is applied to the aligned, primed and dried wall, is distributed over the entire surface with a spatula with a very small tooth. Such spatulas are used for. Do not confuse them with those that apply glue on the tile. They have too much distance between the teeth. A mirror is glued on the prepared surface. It is transferred and held with special handles with suction cups.

The order of gluing

Fastening the mirror to the wall with glue is considered reliable. This method is used in the bathroom, if it is necessary that the entire finish is in the same plane. In this case, first lay out the tile, then the mirror is installed. At the same time, when installing the lower edge on the tile, it is necessary to put a laying of several millimeters thick. The same gap remains on the sides and below. After drying the glue, it is filled with silicone sealant or grout, which was used for the joints of the seams. This gap will compensate for the difference in thermal expansion of materials - ceramics and glass it is different. Also, this gap will prevent from the appearance of cracks during shrinkage and moves of the house.

Since the glue freezes not immediately, the mirror can start sliding along the wall. Holding it all 15-20 minutes I don't really want, because they take action for its preliminary fixation. To do this, before applying glue on the back side, several pieces of bilateral tape are glued. It will keep the mirror until the adhesive dry.

Second option

The second option is to glue the bar on the wall, which will serve as an emphasis. Glue pick up such that is well believed from the surface. If possible, you can spin several screws, etc. In general, any emphasis that will keep a hard piece of glass (1 square meter 4 mm thick weighs 10 kg) in place.

How to glue a mirror for double-sided tape

Small in size and weight of the mirror can be glued to a special two-sided scotch 3M. On the foamed polyethylene or polyurethane from two sides applied a sticky composition. The foamed basis compensates for some irregularities of the base, and also serves to depreciate the bases of the base. The thickness of the base (tape) can be from 0.8 mm, to 1.6 mm, the ribbon width is 6-25 mm.

On a pure skimming base glued pieces of tape. It is distributed evenly throughout the surface. It is not worth sticking around the perimeter, it is better to glue all the pieces vertically in a checker order at a distance of about 10-12 cm. The ribbon consumption depends on the area of \u200b\u200bthe mirror, the experimental data is shown in the table.

Consumption of double-sided foamed tape for gluing mirrors

Square mirror SM2.	3 mm thick mirror		4 mm thick mirror		5 mm thick mirror
	tape width 19 mm	ribbon width 25 mm	tape width 19 mm	ribbon width 25 mm	tape width 19 mm	ribbon width 25 mm
600	14 cm	11 cm	19 cm	14 cm	24 cm	18 cm
800	19 cm	14 cm	25 cm	19 cm	32 cm	24 cm
1000	24 cm	18 cm	32 cm	24 cm	39 cm	30 cm
1200	28 cm	22 cm	38 cm	29 cm	47 cm	36 cm
1400	33 cm	25 cm	44 cm	34 cm	55 cm	42 cm
1600	38 cm	29 cm	51 cm	38 cm	63 cm	48 cm
1800	43 cm	32 cm	57 cm	43 cm	71 cm	64 cm
2000	47 cm	36 cm	63 cm	48 cm	79 cm	60 cm
2200	52 cm	40 cm	69 cm	53 cm	87 cm	66 cm
2400	57 cm	43 cm	76 cm	58 cm	95 cm	72 cm
2600	62 cm	47 cm	82 cm	62 cm	103 cm	78 cm
2800	66 cm	50 cm	88 cm	67 cm	111 cm	84 cm
3000	71 cm	54 cm	95 cm	72 cm	118 cm	90 cm

The last touch is to remove the protective film from the glued pieces and install the mirror on the place intended for it. Manufacturers of this type of Scotch give a warranty per 10000 gluits, so if it is incorrectly installed, you can fix it.

Fastening the mirror to the wall with the help of ZM Scotch is reliable - this material is used in the industry to glue smooth fragments. This compound is not afraid of ultraviolet, has a wide temperature range of use (from -40 ° C to + 90 ° C). The adhesive composition perfectly resists water exposure. The only limitation is on porous surfaces, this tape is glued much worse. But S. ceramic tiles, laminated or adhesion is excellent. If you doubt, you can spend an experiment - glue something heavy, then try to tear it off. According to the results, make a conclusion yourself.

In addition to its purely practical function, the mirror is an important component of the interior of the bathroom. A large mirror will be able to visually increase the space of the bathroom, create a feeling of volume and additional illumination. Mount the mirror on the wall, lined with tiles, is easy: it is enough to have minimal working skills. But it should be remembered that the mirror unrelown on the wall represents a potential danger: this is a heavy and fragile subject. Therefore, approach work with all seriousness.

The first thing to be done is to choose a place in the bathroom, where the mirror will be. This place should be well lit, the mirror should not be too high or too low. In addition, it should be convenient access to the mirror.

There are several ways to hang a mirror in the bathroom on the tile: this is the use of various adhesive compositions, double-sided adhesive, installation of a mirror on a special fastener. The property and disadvantages of each method, as well as detailed instructions On installation are shown below.

The first way. Use of adhesive composition

The least labor cost method that allows you to securely attach the mirror to the surface of the tile. The main disadvantage can be called inevitable difficulties in case the mirror for any reason has to be dismantled. There is a large selection of various adhesive compositions that allow you to securely glue the mirror directly to the cafél. This is a special tile glue, "Liquid nails" and many other names. Before purchasing glue, you should carefully read the application instructions: this will make sure that the selected glue is suitable for work.

It is necessary to use the adhesive composition in strict accordance with the instructions for use: this ensures a durable compound and durability of the adhesive seam. Apply the adhesive composition on the mirror is best parallel stripes at an equal interval: this will evenly distribute the load on the glue seam.

The surface of the tile is pre-fanning. After applying the adhesive composition on the mirror, it must be pressed against the wall and fix in this position for a while.

Such the method will suit Only for fixing the mirrors of a small size: the surface of the tile is smooth, so it is better to use a combination method directly to the surface of the tile to fasten the large mirrors - combinations of adhesive composition and bilateral tape.

The second way. Using bilateral scotch

The principle is exactly the same as when using the adhesive composition, only instead of applying glue, the two-sided tape bands should be glued to the mirror.

As with the use of glue to fasten the mirror, you should not forget:

• clean and degrease the surface of the tile;
• stick tape parallel stripes at equal intervals;
• tightly press the mirror to the wall for a reliable result.

Despite the greater strength of the connection with double-sided scotch than when using the adhesive composition, the combination of these two ways will give a guarantee of the maximum reliable attachment.

Third way. Use of hardware or other fasteners

To do this, you will need:

1. drill;
2. a set of screwdrivers or screwdriver;
3. drill on glass drill on the kafel;
4. plastic dowels with screws or special fasteners for mirrors.

Ways to hang mirror in the bathroom on tile using hardware or special fasteners, two. The first way is to drill in a mirror and a wall, lined with a tile of holes, drive into them plastic dowels and secure the mirror with screws. In the holes drilled in the mirror, it is necessary to insert special rubber or plastic gaskets. This is done so that metal screws do not split the mirror.

In order to drill holes in the mirror and tile, you should use special drills for glass and tiles. If you try to use conventional drills, the surface is probably crashes.

When drilling holes in the mirror using a drill on glass, it is necessary to regularly enable the drill with water. You need to drill on low drill speeds, a strong pressure of the drill to the surface of the mirror should be avoided. Drilling the tile is also necessary with caution. After the hole in the tile is drilled by a special drill, you should install a regular drill for concrete on a drill and drove the wall to them.

Sometimes a special fastener is sold with a mirror in order to hang it on the wall. If the mirror is bought without a special fastener, then you can find it in any construction store. Such fasteners in most cases is metal staples that need to be attached to the wall. After that, the mirror hangs on fasteners.

The method of fastening the mirror to the cafél with hardware or special fasteners is the most labor, but also the mounting mirror to the wall will be the most reliable and durable. In addition, if necessary, dismantling the mirrors will not be difficult: it will only be enough to spin screws or remove the mirror web with a bracket.

Install the mirror in the bathroom on the surface of the tile will not be difficult: for this it is necessary to use one of the proposed methods. These ways are to glue the mirror with an adhesive composition, glue the mirror on double-sided adhesion or attach a mirror using hardware and special fasteners.

How to hang?

It is impossible to imagine life modern man Without a mirror - or rather, without a variety of mirrors: in the bathroom, bedroom, dressing room, hallway, in the office lobby, etc. The hanging mirrors are perceived naturally and as of granted until the need arises to hang the mirror. This is where you have to think, because the walls are different everywhere, and the weight of the mirror can differ significantly. The greatest difficulties probably arise when you have to hang the mirror in the bathroom or on a plasterboard wall. Let's deal with how it can be done.

How to hang the mirror in the bathroom?

If a tile is laid on the wall in the bathroom, and completely new, it is not very new to drill it. Try doubts: "What if it crawls or disappears with a mirror?". How to do? Best of all, of course, prepare a place under the mirror in advance. That is, choose and buy plumbing, bathroom furniture and a mirror before repairs. By choosing a place where the mirror is located, you can not wait for it with tiles, but leave free space. If the wall in this place is concrete or brick, to attach the mirror of labor will not be. However, it will hang here until the next repairs.

Well, if the repair is already done, there are several options. The first is suitable for those cases when the mirror is really heavy, and hang it on the glue seems to be obvious. We will have to drill tiles and wall.

We hide the mirror in the bathroom. Drilling

It should not be afraid that the tile will split - if the tile itself is high quality and passed well, nothing will happen to her. First you need to choose a place under the mirror, using the level to make a line where the mirror will be fastened. In this place it is necessary to make holes. Their quantity depends on the width of the mirror and from the number of fasteners on it (if the mirror was sold with holes under fastening and with the fasteners themselves).

Before drilling, you need to make holes in the tile: for this you can take a screwdriver and drill on glass. By making neat holes in the tile, you can arm a drill and do the holes in the wall under the tile. Dowels are inserted into the holes, screw screws. It remains only to hang the mirror if it is, of course, already equipped with fasteners. We hope no one thinks to fix the mirror only on the tile? Fasten the mirror you need to wall!

Once we are talking about the bathroom, it is worth saying that most mirrors designed specifically for this room are already sold with holes and fasteners . These fasteners are decorative: from the front side of the mirror put the plug - a sort of "knob" chrome-plated, nickel-plated, imitating bronze or gold or even wooden.

The fastener becomes an element of the mirror and combines with other parts of its finishes, especially if the mirror is a complex design with shelves, backlit, etc.

So, if bathroom mirror Equipped with a fixing system, it remains only to hang it and smile to its reflection.

And if the mirror is solid, without fasteners? You can drill holes in the mirror, and decorative fasteners from buying in the store (sold in fasteners and accessories for mirrors).

However, the hole is done in the mirror - the process is very thin. The mirror is fragile, and it must be considered.

The optimal solution is to take the mirror to the mirrors to make the holes of the desired size in the marked places.

But, if you have experience, you can make this work yourself. Diamond drills are usually used for this. So that the mirror is not cracked, it is necessary to ensure its cooling during the drilling process. At home, they make something like a plasticine bath, fill it with water and stick to the place of the future opening. Drilled neatly, gradually, checking whether water remained in a plasticine bath. If necessary, tosses. Recommended also, interrupting drilling, dripped on the resulting hole by turpentine, and then continue to work. When the holes are drilled, they need to round them with the skin, but this work also needs to be done very carefully and is not in a hurry, so as not to overheat the glass, why it can crack.

Having done the holes of the desired diameter, you can fasten the fastener and decorative plug, prepare the wall and hang the mirror - ready! For reliability, a mirror suspended on fasteners can be additionally reconciled to the wall with a special bilateral scotch.

We hide the mirror in the bathroom on the space between the tiled trim

As already mentioned, you can leave a place under the mirror, without placing it with tiles. In this case, the mirror, if it is not heavy, and the wall is smooth, you can simply glue with liquid nails, and the jokes of the tile and mirrors to be treated with sealant. If placed on a thick layer of glue, the mirror will deepen. If you do not want such an effect, you can do this: to kill or glue a metal profile on the wall, it is planted to attach a mirror with liquid nails to the plasterboard, but in this case you need to use a butterfly dowel.

Some plant a mirror between tiles on a layer of tiled glue or even cement. Of course, this is a very reliable fastening, but the mirror in this case should have a protective layer. Otherwise, the amalgam from contact with cement can darken over time. There are advice to process the rear surface of the mirror with a sealant for mirrors and only after that put a mirror on cement.

In any case, it turns out the "built-in" mirror, which is very beautiful and original in its own.

We hide the mirror in the bathroom on the tile without drilling

If the mirror is not very heavy, it can be easily glued to the tile. For this purpose, special sealants are used (glue) for mirrors or special double-sided adhesive tapes (they are also called "two-way assembly tape for mirrors"). For reliability, both methods are combined: glue distributes around the perimeter, and several adhesive tapes are placed in parallel to each other. Then the protective layer is removed from the ribbons, and the mirror joins the wall.

Previously, of course, it is necessary using the level to repeal the line on which the mirror will hang. Wesame mirror, you need to immediately align it, as strips and sealant are quickly glued. For mounting the mirrors, special suckers use, but for once it is unprofitable for once, therefore, if the mirror is large enough, it is better to use anyone help.

Scotch for the mirror is moisture-resistant. By the way, some manufacturers of tiles for the bathroom are produced. The tile before gluing the mirror should be cleaned and degreased with alcohol, give dry and only then stick the mirror. After gluing the edge of the mirror, it is recommended to handle the sealant to avoid moisture from entering the space between the mirror and the wall and, as a result, damage to the amalgam. It is necessary to process the sealant when the adhesive compositions that mirrors were attached completely dried.

How to glue a mirror with a tape or liquid nails?

If you use only adhesive tapes, distribute them around the perimeter of the mirror and in the center - in parallel one other. By gluing a mirror with liquid nails or special sealant glue, distribute the composition with small portions around the perimeter of the mirror at a distance of approximately 5-7 cm. At the corners, the glue does not put, otherwise, during the pressing of the mirror to the wall, it can "drink" to outward and spoil and tile, and a mirror. By the way, not every liquid nails are suitable for mounting the mirror. Buy only those on which it is indicated that the mirror can be glued.

Press the mirror to the wall you need at least 10 minutes. If it is heavy, it is necessary to provide backups for a day.

How to hang a mirror in the bathroom on the PVC panel

If the PVC panel bathroom, the place under the mirror also need to be planned in advance - even before finishing work. In the place where the mirror will hang, the additional elements of the crates are mounted, for which the mirrors are subsequently carried out and the mirrors are carried out using a dowel-nail, anchors, and the like. Light mirror can be glued on PVC using the same mounting tape or liquid nails. If the distance between the wall and panels are not too large, if desired, you can rebel to the wall. However, it will be easier to buy Moidodyr - an end with a sink and a mirror already fixed on it.

In order to hang any items on the wall of drywall, it is impossible to use conventional nails. As a rule, apply special butterfly dowels . Longitudinal ribs of such a dowel are protected from turning. There is in such a dowel and a locking battlefield that prevents the failure of the fastening system into the hole.

The butterfly dowel is used when you need to hang the mirror weighing up to 20 kg. If it weighs more, it can become a serious load for. In this case, the plasterboard sheet is laid from the inner or outside side by another sheet of drywall or plywood. Fasteners are made on the butterfly dowels or anchor bolts.

In the same way, with the help of special dowels or anchors, a mounting of a hook or rails to hang mirrors on a fishing line, rope, chain is made.

Today are sold I. special mirror hanging brackets . First there is a lower line to which brackets are attached. The mirror is simply inserted into these brackets. After that, the brackets are attached from above. Thus, the mirror turns out to be clamped in brackets.

Furniture are purchased and installed in the bathroom, as a rule, after the completion of the repair. Usually this process does not consider something difficult and decide that they will completely cope with the installation of furniture independently. But when it comes to the mirror, a number of unexpected issues arise that the completion of work is inhibited. Let's deal with the emerging issues as they occur.

Question 1. What is the height of hanging the mirror in the bathroom?

Obvious, it would seem, the thing that, nevertheless, can cause a clinch with the end repair work In bathroom. And, indeed, if the location of the mirror will determine the one who is engaged in installation, then it will certainly be repelled from its parameters. And it can work out that a high growth person will be forced to bend, let's say, during shaving, and the miniature will see only his top in the mirror. If the mirror is competent, the average parameter is based on the top edge. If you focus on it, the height of the mirror in the bathroom from the floor to the upper edge should be about 1870-2000 mm. In this case, with a standard height of the cabbage with a sink, which is comfortable for a person of medium height, a mirror with a height of 850-900 mm will be located in such a way that its lower edge will be installed almost jack with the sink.

But this location of the mirror is possible only if it does not have a lower shelf or it is not a part-time cabinet. If it is, then the distance from the sink to the mirror in the bathroom should include a convenient operational area where the mixer is located. Usually, the distance is 20 cm. As for a small mirror or having a horizontal form, it is more logical to position it at a distance ¾ from the lower edge of the sink at the eye level of the person looking. If the bathroom visits not one person, then when installing the mirrors, you should focus on the average height of a person, that is, 176 cm.

Question 2. How to hang the mirror in the bathroom?

When the height of the mirror in the bathroom is determined, the necessary labels are made, pointing to the location of the fasteners, it is important to determine the method of fastening the mirror to the wall. The simplest fastener to the wall of the mirror leaf is the glue: tiled or special composition for gluing mirrors. With this method of installation, the mirror acts on the role of finishing material, therefore it should be in thickness to fit the tile. But this method of installation is extremely unreliable.

To hang on the wall of a mirror or a mirror locker, you should take into account the material from which the wall is made: brick, concrete or, possibly, PVC panels or plasterboard covering. Each material should provide a special fastener material. So, for a wall of PVC panels, it will be necessary either to make in advance at the place of mounting the mirror for decorative material Wooden crate or fasten a special anchor directly to the wall and output it through a PVC panel for mirror mirror. To mount the mirror on the plasterboard wall, it is necessary to stock up so-called dowel-butterflies intended for hollow structures. They provide for flights-protrusions that hold a dowel in the wall and do not give him under the weight of the suspension of the locker, get out of the wall, having collapsed the whole design.

On concrete or brick wall The mirror can be hung in the presence of ready-made suspensions with a dowel-nail. But this is possible if the product is not very heavy. For mounting a mirror cabinet or a backlit mirror, it is better to use anchor or anchor bolts. They are more reliable.

Brief instructionsHow to hang the mirror in the bathroom:

1. We note on the wall upper mirror installation points.
2. We measure the distance between canopies from roulette and from a canopy to the top edge of the mirror and carry the measurement results on the wall.
3. At the attachment points we send. If the mirror is mounted on the wall with a tiled already laid out, then for these purposes, use a special drill on glass or tile. At the tile, it is recommended to stick paper tape at drilling places.
4. We make the power tools (drill; perforator) Neat holes Ø 8x60 in the tile, and then in the wall, trying to prevent chip and not damage the tile.
5. We set the flush with the surface of the wall plastic dowels in the holes, and in them - a dowel-nail or hook-canopy. Or establish other fasteners that match the wall material.

Question 3. How to connect a mirror with backlit in the bathroom?

Especially many questions cause mirror installation in the bathroom when it also has a lamp in its design. In particular, if the product is completed with a mounted lamp, then you need to start from its installation on the mirror. Usually, it is enough to fasten the lighting device on the wooden part of the mirror (frame, the wall of the mirror locker or specifically provided to set the cornices backlight) with screws that are installed in prudently drilled technological holes.

Luminaires that are supplied with a bathroom mirror have two connection options. First, through a conventional outlet, then they are equipped with a fork, secondly, directly to the wires of the power grid, then the terminal bar must be present. Wires, entering the outlet, should be dried into the shoes, and the rosette itself is picking up with a protective screen that prevents water from entering water.

Attention! Pay attention to the designations set for lighting devices. Especially important indicators that begin with IP letters (index of protection), which determine the device class according to the degree of electrical protection. The second digit in the code after the letters of the IP is just indicated by the class of protection against moisture. And if the models with the IP44 code are able to protect against splashes, the IP55 encoding products will be secured from direct moisture to the housing, that is, they can be installed even over the bathroom. The minimum degree of protection of the lighting device embedded in the mirror above the washbasin must be IP24.

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