I didn’t fairly get so far as I had hoped on the toilet over the weekend, however the excellent news is that the glued-on mirror has been eliminated, the partitions have been prepped, they usually’re now prepared for primer and wallpaper!
I’ll begin with the mirror removing. An enormous THANK YOU to all of you who gave me recommendations on methods to get this mirror off of the wall. It’s very clear that after I put this mirror on the wall a number of years again, I had no intention of this factor ever being eliminated. It was meant to remain on this wall till the tip of time based mostly on the quantity of mirror mastic I had used. So eradicating it was gradual and tedious, however I simply labored patiently and methodically till every bit of it was gone.
I didn’t need to must buy something (like piano wire) if I didn’t must. So based mostly in your ideas, after which seeing what I had available, I made a decision to make use of my warmth gun and wooden shims. That truly labored completely! To make clear, it was an ideal resolution since I wasn’t involved within the least about breaking this mirror. Since I had no plan to reuse it, I didn’t care if it broke within the removing course of. If my intent was to maintain it in a single piece, this course of wouldn’t have labored due to the quantity of mirror mastic I had used to connect it to the wall.
Utilizing the wooden shims and a hammer, I put the shims between the wall and the mirror so far as they might go.
Once I felt resistance, I’d cease, use my warmth gun to melt the adhesive, after which hammer the shims in so far as they might go till I’d really feel resistance once more.
As every bit broke, I’d pull it off the wall after which repeat the method with the warmth gun and shims.
It was a reasonably gradual course of, so it took fairly a little bit of endurance.
Additionally, I didn’t trouble taping the entrance of the mirror as a result of I knew that I had used a lot mirror mastic to place the mirror on the wall. Not one single piece of the mirror fell by itself. As you may see beneath, I actually needed to pull each piece off of the wall. There wasn’t a single piece that didn’t have mastic on it.
So, lesson discovered. If I ever glue a mirror to a toilet wall once more, I’ll use a a lot smaller quantity of mirror mastic, and I’ll solely put it within the 4 corners, and perhaps one dollop within the middle of the mirror. Possibly. However what I did when attaching this mirror to the wall was overkill, and that’s an understatement.
For any mastic that was left behind on the wall, I used my warmth gun and drywall mud knife to scrape it off. It truly got here off very simply. However as you may see beneath, the entire course of induced fairly a bit of harm to the wall.
So after I bought the entire thing eliminated, I then needed to spend fairly a little bit of time sanding down the tough edges, mudding the entire space (together with the areas throughout the room the place the tile and trim had been eliminated), after which doing an entire lot of sanding as soon as the drywall mud had dried.
However the excellent news is that these partitions are actually sanded and prepared for primer.
I’ll give the primer about 24 hours to dry, after which I’ll be prepared to put in wallpaper! Whereas I’m ready for that, I can go forward and set up the trim to complete up the highest portion of the wainscoting and get that every one completed. I purchased all the trim I would like for that yesterday, so I’m able to get happening that at the moment.
So if it had been only a matter of the bulk having their say, the choice can be made. However since that is my home and my studio and my toilet, it’s not fairly that easy. 😀 For me, this one remains to be within the operating and really has a slight edge over the eggplant vainness.
So, at this level, I don’t suppose it’s extra enter that I would like. I simply have to decide and get it accomplished. Who is aware of what I’ll find yourself with? I might flipflop between the 2 ten extra occasions earlier than I’m truly standing on the paint counter in House Depot ordering paint. And even after it’s painted and the wallpaper is up, I might change my thoughts once more. In any case, I’m me, and that’s what I do if I’m not 100% glad with one thing. 😀 But when I had been compelled to decide proper this minute, you possibly can anticipate a inexperienced vainness. I’d most likely make it barely lighter worth than the inexperienced on the again entry partitions of the studio. However once more, we’ll see! It’d all come right down to my temper in the meanwhile.
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Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
