Hi all.
I will be glueing a bathroom mirror to the wash basin wall soon.
However, I removed some tiles a couple of weeks ago
and it wasn't very difficult. It seems the tile cement had afixed
itself to
the emulsion paint only, and merely required a bit of encouragement
with a thin
screwdriver and 3 @ 20cm x 25cm tiles came off undamaged.

This is a lath & plaster wall but I'm not very keen on the idea of
knocking holes in it to insert noggins to match up with the miror
drill holes.
So should I treat this emulsion with something before No-more-nailsing
the
mirror to it?

Thanks.

Arthur

Arthur 51 wrote:

I will be glueing a bathroom mirror to the wash basin wall soon.
However, I removed some tiles a couple of weeks ago
and it wasn't very difficult. It seems the tile cement had afixed
itself to
the emulsion paint only, and merely required a bit of encouragement
with a thin
screwdriver and 3 @ 20cm x 25cm tiles came off undamaged.

This is a lath & plaster wall but I'm not very keen on the idea of
knocking holes in it to insert noggins to match up with the miror
drill holes.
So should I treat this emulsion with something before No-more-nailsing
the
mirror to it?

Can you not just scrape the emulsion off? Anything you use to cover it
over will still leave the unstable interface between the emulsion and
plaster, won't it?

BTW don't use "no more nails" - allegedly it can attack the silvering of
mirrors so you need to use special mirror adhesive (which you use just
like "no more nails").

David