pocket door during construction |
During a recent renovation, we made a walk-in closet and installed a pocket door in the wall. After the closet cabinetry was installed the only location left for a mirror is - you guessed it -- the section of wall where the pocket door recesses into the wall.
I want to mount a 60 inch by 16 inch bevel edged mirror (the cheap ones from the big box store). As you can see from the picture, while I
might be able to drive small mirror clips with 1-inch screws on the mirror sides (1-inch calculated from thickness of clips plus 0.5 inch drywall plus 0.25 inch estimated thickness from memory of those lateral straps across the pocket) into the strapping without hitting the door. But at the height that the mirror needs to be mounted, there is no strap along the line where the bottom of the mirror would be. So I cannot provide bottom support via clips or J-channel at the mirror bottom.
So, mirror mastic seems to be the right solution. Put circular blobs of mirror mastic on the back of the mirror and smack it onto the wall, right? But in my readings, everything says you need to support the mirror until the mastic has time to cure. How can I support the mirror until it cures? Would be easy if there was something into which screws could be safely driven. But not here. I read one suggestion of double sided tape in addition to the mastic, but am not really happy with that idea.