Mirrors · Windsor-Essex
Custom mirrors, mirror walls and mirrored closet doors
A mirror job can be a wall of glass for a basement gym or one small piece for a medicine cabinet door. Both are welcome. We connect you with an independent Windsor-Essex glass pro who cuts mirror to size, mounts it, and fixes mirrored closet doors that have stopped rolling. You describe the space; they measure, quote and call you back.
- One small mirror is welcome
- Cut to size, edged and mounted
- Closet doors repaired or replaced
Bathrooms
Bathroom and vanity mirrors cut to fit
The usual request is a mirror that fills the wall over a vanity, or fits an old cabinet door, cut to your measurements with holes for lights and outlets. Black creeping in from the edges of an old mirror is the silver backing breaking down where moisture reached an unsealed edge. It can't be repaired, but a new mirror with sealed edges fixes it.
Home gyms
Mirror walls for home gyms and dance rooms
A gym or dance wall is really a row of big panels butted together. The pro plans the seams, checks the wall is flat, and uses safety-backed mirror so a broken panel holds together. Measure the whole wall and note outlets, switches and baseboard height.
Closet doors
Mirrored closet doors: new rollers, new panels or new doors
Mirrored closet doors, as local glass shops call them, fail in one of three ways. Start with the smallest part.
New rollers or guides
A door that drags or jumps the track usually has worn rollers or guides. They're small parts, and many are still made.
A new mirror panel
If the frame is still straight, a cracked or darkening mirror can usually be swapped out on its own.
A new set of doors
Bent frames, a damaged track or missing parts mean new doors made to the opening.
Edges and backing
Edges, bevels, holes and safety backing
Polished edge
Smooth and flat, for frameless mirrors that show their sides.
Bevelled edge
A sloped border that catches the light, for a framed look without a frame.
Holes and cut-outs
Openings for outlets, switches or lights, cut before mounting.
Safety backing
A film that holds broken pieces together. Worth it on big mirrors, closet doors and gym walls.
Mounting
Mounting on plaster, drywall or tile
A large share of Windsor homes went up before 1960, and many have plaster walls. Plaster is hard, brittle and may hide lath or brick, so the pro picks fasteners to suit and often carries the weight on a bottom channel with top clips. On drywall or tile, the fixings change; the adhesive must be made for mirrors, since the wrong kind can eat the silver backing.
What affects the quote
What affects the price
The quote comes down to your piece and your wall:
- Size, and one piece or several panels
- Clear, tinted or antiqued mirror
- Polished or bevelled edges, and any cut-outs
- Safety backing
- Wall type and mounting hardware
- Removing an old mirror
Measure the space, mark outlets and switches, and send a photo. For closet doors, photograph the bottom track.
Small jobs
One small mirror is a real job
A medicine cabinet door, a cracked dresser mirror, a round vintage frame: these are the jobs people worry are too small to call about. They aren't. Many pros who cut mirror also do shower doors and glass shelves, so the whole room can go on one request. More options are on the glass and mirrors page.
Questions
Mirror questions
Explore your options
Other glass for the same room
Mirror work comes up in plaster-walled older homes in the city and finished basements in the County, including Walkerville, Ford City, Forest Glade, LaSalle and Tecumseh & St. Clair Beach.
Tell us about the wall
Give us the size of the space and a photo. A local pro who does mirror work gets it, and we nudge until you hear from them.