How To Remove A Mirror Glued To The Wall

 

How to remove a mirror that is glued to the wall.

Removing a mirror glued to the wall can seem like a daunting project, but it’s actually super easy to do!  Read more to find out how we removed the mirror in the bathroom of our renovation!

One of the bathrooms in the Kay House Renovation had a mirror that was glued to the wall.  The thing was, the mirror itself wasn't in bad shape.

The problem was that the mirror had a weird little design on top.  It was definitely straight out of the 1980's!  In an effort to bring the house up to date, I knew the mirror had to go!

But, of course, taking the mirror off the wall wouldn't be an easy thing to accomplish.  The thing was glued to the wall!   Honestly, though, I think that’s the only way you can put on those type of mirrors.  Like, Liquid Nails forever & stick it up there.

So how were we going to remove it?

 

 

 

We first trying prying it a little to see what we were working with.  Luckily the mirror was pretty loose & a good portion lifted up when gently pulled.

Then there was talk back & forth about using a heat gun to loosen up the adhesive enough to pull it off the wall.  That would probably be the preferred method in this situation…

But, here’s the thing.  We’re kind of impulsive.  We don’t always have the materials on hand to complete the job the way we want to.  We didn’t have a heat gun & wanted to complete the job, so we improvised. 

We decided just to pry it off the wall.  We also knew that prying it off the wall would cause the mirror to break into a million pieces so we taped the mirror off to keep it in one piece.  I would recommend taping the entire thing off until you can’t even see the mirror anymore.  Of course, since we’re impatient, we didn’t do that.

Once the mirror was taped together, we just used a pry bar to pry it off the wall.  Once again, we were super lucky in that the mirror wasn’t holding on very strong to the wall in the first place.  But the main thing to remember is to tape the mirror so glass doesn’t start flying everywhere!  We wanted the mirror to come off in one piece.  We placed the pry bar underneath the mirror & pulled it off.

Prying a mirror off the wall can be dangerous so we worked as slowly & gently as possible.