On 11/30/2008 5:59 PM Jim Sherman spake thus:

My spouse is replacing Formica countertops with granite on four vanities.
Each has a mirror that was set onto the Formica top, glue applied to the
back, then pushed to the wall. The new tops will be thicker and the mirrors
must come off or cut shorter from the bottom. Two glass companies told me
the only way to handle this is to smash the mirrors and pull the pieces off,
and ruin the drywall in the process. Are there any other options? Thanks in
advance.

Short answer: no. But what's the problem? Are the mirrors somehow
valuable to you?

By the way, instead of just smashing them, which is sure to generate
lots of glass splinters and debris, better to score them with a glass
cutter, then pry them off the wall (use a wide-bladed knife or a pry
bar); that way, they'll break on the score lines and leave less of a
mess. The underlying wall (drywall) should survive OK so long as you
don't use the cave-man approach to removing the glass.


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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

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