Thank you for your help in the past. When measureing for a broke or fogged I.G. Unit. is there a sure fire way of getting the right ordering size, if you measure from end to end daylight size. Like can I add a certain size to the unit without taking the unit out of the frame?

ANSWER:

There is no sure fire way for measuring daylight and adding the same way for each window. There a hundred manufactories and they make a number of different sashes that hold the glass. From marine glazed to vinyl and also metal sashes that have screws. Some wooden window frames are made not to be fixed, but to replace the whole sash instead of just the glass. For best results, if it is your project, pull the vinyl or unscrew the metal sash and just measure the exact size of the glass once it is revealed. Our service men know what to add after years of experience and seeing on hand what each different window revealed but if we measure wrong, we have to make it right. If you measure wrong, you have to pay for another piece of glass.

QUESTION:

Can you give me a tip on how to remove bevel mirror strips from a bathroom mirror?

ANSWER:

I know you don't want to hear "Carefully" so we will tell you how we do it. With a "G" guitar string.

Put on gloves, slide the string behind the bevel mirror on one end, then grab the g-string with both hands and pull...HARD...and work it back and forth. You can cut most two way tape this way and a lot of silicone. If it was glued on with Mirror Mastic, it will be harder, but it will work. Don't look to save the bevel strip for it may be damaged. Also, most important....DON'T TRY PRYING THE STRIP OFF WITH A SCREW DRIVER, you are most likely to break the big mirror

QUESTION:

I was wondering if there is tool to cut 4 inches off the top of my mirror in
the bathroom to make room for a light above the vanity with out having to
remove the whole mirror.

ANSWER:

You can't get there from there. You have to pull the mirror off the wall to cut and re-sand the edges.

We have tried this a few times just to know...and now we do. You can't cut the mirror off the top successfully without pulling it down and laying it on a table and cutting it.

QUESTION:

I have a mirror already installed on my bathroom wall. A section of the mirror needs to be cut off, 3' wide by 6" high. Can the mirror remain in place and then cut off the required amount. There is adhesive backing which makes it difficult to remove the entire mirror, 3' x 4'-6".

ANSWER:

I posted these two questions next to one another because I get MANY emails asking this same thing.

Sometimes people want to only cut off 1" or 2" off the top---or bottom. Actually, cutting a smaller piece off is much harder than cutting the mirror in half...neither of which should be done while the mirror is on the wall. If it is glued with mastic to the wall, you still have to take it down - AND run the risk of breaking the mirror as it comes off the wall. If it comes off without breaking, THEN it has to be laid on a table to cut and sand. Even on a table glass will sometimes not break the way we cut it, but on a table you have less area for mistakes. Cutting mirror while it is on the wall is only "TRYING" and does not compare to "COMPLETING" the task.

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