The mirror broke

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: BUTCH1
Mirror mirror off the wall,
hit the floor as it took a fall,
scared we were as it hit the deck,
as razor sharp pieces flew 'round my neck,
now I want this asshole who glued it up wrong,
to put up a new one, with a brace big and strong..

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: Greenman
Black mirror mastic is the accepted method of installing a mirror.

Edit: After having to remove several mirrors that were affixed with mastic, I'm going to go ahead and say that a piece of this story is missing. That glue doesn't fail.

bullshit, dude. accepted method of installing a mirror also includes a track at the bottom, and some retention screws at the top such that if the mastic DOES fail, it isnt a catastrophic failure.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: The Godfather
One of my family members was injured, and we were all in shock.

Get this. No one touched the mirror, everyone was over 15 feet away from it.

I'm getting mixed messages captain.

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: Greenman
Black mirror mastic is the accepted method of installing a mirror.

Edit: After having to remove several mirrors that were affixed with mastic, I'm going to go ahead and say that a piece of this story is missing. That glue doesn't fail.

bullshit, dude. accepted method of installing a mirror also includes a track at the bottom, and some retention screws at the top such that if the mastic DOES fail, it isnt a catastrophic failure.

Also this. I have never seen a mirror hanging by just glue.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: The Godfather

Originally posted by: Alone
That shit doesn't just let go for no reason. What was that person doing that caused them to be injured?

Ok I was downstairs, there was a person about 15 feet from the mirror when it fell. We were all in shock. This house is a piece of sh1t anyways, not worth its money. We bought it and on the 2nd week cabinets starded to have cracks between the walls, hardwood began to squeek, the stairs are crappy. Now this... Doesn't sound like a brand new house to me.

It sounds exactly like a brand new house to me. They build crap these days. If you want something good buy an old house.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For a mirror that size I'd make sure there's a wodden frame and the frame itself is screwed to the wall.

Though the explanation is simple. Your house is haunted. Move out asap.

j/k probably just a crazy coincidence. (or there's a part of the story that you were not told by the person near it)

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: The Godfather

Originally posted by: Alone
That shit doesn't just let go for no reason. What was that person doing that caused them to be injured?

Ok I was downstairs, there was a person about 15 feet from the mirror when it fell. We were all in shock. This house is a piece of sh1t anyways, not worth its money. We bought it and on the 2nd week cabinets starded to have cracks between the walls, hardwood began to squeek, the stairs are crappy. Now this... Doesn't sound like a brand new house to me.

Welcome to the crappy cookie cutter homes in modern America. God bless the free market and cheap shit goods from China. Let's all give our money to corporate America because they really give a shit about us.:roll:

Good luck suing the company who built your house, they've probably gone out of business by now.

 

[BUTCH1]

Originally posted by: eplebnista

Originally posted by: BUTCH1
Mirror mirror off the wall,
hit the floor as it took a fall,
scared we were as it hit the deck,
as razor sharp pieces flew 'round my neck,
now I want this asshole who glued it up wrong,
to put up a new one, with a brace big and strong..

Thanks!

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: The Godfather

Originally posted by: Alone
That shit doesn't just let go for no reason. What was that person doing that caused them to be injured?

Ok I was downstairs, there was a person about 15 feet from the mirror when it fell. We were all in shock. This house is a piece of sh1t anyways, not worth its money. We bought it and on the 2nd week cabinets starded to have cracks between the walls, hardwood began to squeek, the stairs are crappy. Now this... Doesn't sound like a brand new house to me.

Welcome to the crappy cookie cutter homes in modern America. God bless the free market and cheap shit goods from China. Let's all give our money to corporate America because they really give a shit about us.:roll:

Good luck suing the company who built your house, they've probably gone out of business by now.

this has nothing to do with free market or cheap goods from china. it has to do with a regular practice in the construction industry of contractors bribing the inspectors to sign off on a house without it meeting code, because the bribe is cheaper than building to code.

what could fix this problem would be making inspectors criminally liable if things they signed off on later were proved to not have been built to code.

 

[Greenman]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: Greenman
Black mirror mastic is the accepted method of installing a mirror.

Edit: After having to remove several mirrors that were affixed with mastic, I'm going to go ahead and say that a piece of this story is missing. That glue doesn't fail.

bullshit, dude. accepted method of installing a mirror also includes a track at the bottom, and some retention screws at the top such that if the mastic DOES fail, it isnt a catastrophic failure.

I'm going to guess you've never seen custom mirror work. There is nothing but mastic that holds it to the wall. I have installations of this type that are 30 years old, and still as solid as the day they were put in.

When you don't know what your talking about, it's best not to say anything.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: BUTCH1
Mirror mirror off the wall,
hit the floor as it took a fall,
scared we were as it hit the deck,
as razor sharp pieces flew 'round my neck,
now I want this asshole who glued it up wrong,
to put up a new one, with a brace big and strong..

Nice poem

 

[spaceman]

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