Cutting glass mirror

Depends on where you are....the cost of getting someone to cut the glass in Podunk Arkansas will be a lot less than in NYC. I guess that's all relative

I promise you that it will take you longer to get it on and off the truck than it will for the glass shop to make the cuts and seam the edges. Having the box truck isn't the whole solution, though. You DO know that the glass has to be carried and transported on it's edge, like you were carrying a sheet of drywall? It must be laid at a nearly vertical angle, supported in many places and the bottom edge sitting on WOOD or carpet. NOT the metal flooring of a pickup or truck bed. Having two guys with vaccum cups (not the el-cheapo kind) will make it much easier and safer.

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Moonraker
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Chris Mares

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Chris Mares

Drive it over to your local glass shop and ask him to cut it for you, $20 bucks sounds about right.

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jk

That's what I use my local phone system for.... after all, I paid for it!

Shop around and then you'll KNOW what the diff shops might charge, and it will vary, naturally, as all things do .... asking in here is useless, in that it's ALL conjecture from us.

I'll never figger this out..... why ask person A what person B is thinking? Person B is always the person to ask what person B is thinking, *not* person A. Simple, huh? Big life lesson....take note!

Cheers, Jacques Bordeleau

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Sundog

You put foam blocks under the glass in a couple of spots, and didn't support the whole bottom edge? Hauling glass that way is just living on borrowed time, IMO.

From what you say, you got two pieces of mirror. Appparently they were free or for really cheap? Otherwise you'd have had them cut to size and seamed? So for something you have not much invested in, why the big deal about what someone would charge to cut them? With mirror being $6-10 per square foot, even paying someone $50 to cut them to size will still have you way ahead of the game.

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Moonraker

Uh OH, snow melted....

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Javahut

Sure you can be a bigshot about all this because you have the tape...

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jk

Maybe you could get Sundog to make you a tape? I betcha ol' Jacques would like to swap a high quality tape for a jug of that 50 year-old hooch?

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Moonraker

What part of the world do you live in?

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Javahut

What a crybaby, its worth what yer payin', including the postage!

I had a busy week, I'll get it to ya, I just hate to show you how to do it when you could be sending them to me.

I usually charge big bucks for the lessons. It's what I do....

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Javahut

You are so full of it Java! You kept trying to encourage me to do it myself over all our chats remember? And who ever complained about the price? I don't expect it to be free. Blank check OK?

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jk

Don't git yer undies in a bunch, I'll send it, just been a little busy here at bill payin' time, you know, one of those cycling things. I think we should all learn to do things we don't kow how to do. I'm just out of excuses and graspin' for stuff.

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Javahut
1/4" plate is a common size, and easily handled in a glazing shop.>

ack -- that comment made me recall a frightening experience three weeks ago.

I stopped at the beauty salon where my mom gets her hair cut...to drop something off with her. She was just finished - so we both went out the door of the shop. A storm was just blowing into the area - and I opened the door - a single width glass door with typical metal frame and metal push bar ... it opened outward onto a small "porch". My mother went out - and I stepped out behind her - stepped down the step and started to let go of the door (which has a door closer) -- but the wind suddenly BLASTED through the area - jerked the door from my hand and slammed it closed into the frame SMASH!!!!! CRASH! !!! Glass flew everywhere - lucky for me INTO the store instead of out... the PLATE GLASS in the door was NOT SAFETY!!!!! Lucky for the women inside - nobody was at the front desk or near the door - It threw huge spears and pieces of glass on the desk - under the desk - and across the front 1/3 of the shop!!! ACKKKK It's amazing that NOBODY was hurt.... it was an eye opener to me of just how dangerous non-safety glass is!!! The owner said the door was probably original glass - from when the building was built in the 50's..... wow....

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