Where to get (cheap) acrylic mirror from in Germany

dbahn25

Hi guys,
I love the smart mirror! Do you know any place in or around Freiburg, Germany (local) or online shops that ship to German addresses where I could get a mirror from that doesn’t cost too much? (I’m a poor student, you know)
I don’t mind acrylic glass or even a good foil (I already tried a chinese one though, terrible result. Don’t waste those 3$!).
Thanks!

yawns

https://www.myspiegel.de/spionspiegel-pg-2102.html
This vendor was mentioned some time ago. I will call some local glaziers, but will give myspiegel.de a chance if prices are far off.

Blamer

@yawns
I have already contacted myspiegel a couple of weeks ago and they told me that their mirrors are not suitable for this project. According to them the glas materials is too dark. I think they received a lot of calls the last couple of months since this project was described on german television (“Galileo”).
The only supplier I found in Stuttgart was Glass Flüss: http://fluess-glas.de/
Guess I paid ~ 80€ for 50 x 50 cm. Hope that helps a bit.

dbahn25

I also called a local glazier for the semitransparent mirror, they told me it would be around 80€ as well… I was looking for something rather like what they sell on cutplasticsheeting.co.uk (search for “two way acrylic mirror”), since that is much cheaper than a real mirror and supposed to be optically just as good.

deepshades

At this moment i found following sites:

Das sind bisher die Produkte, wo ich am überlegen bin

yawns

@Blamer
That’s interesting. This guy ( http://blog.tobias-weis.de/smarter-smartmirror/ ) uses the myspiegel.de mirror and is more than happy with it.

deepshades

And definetily it looks pretty good.

Steff

Adding one more link to a mirror glas from Pilkington - which in my personal opinion - would be a perfect solution:
http://asset manager-ws.pilkington.com/fileserver.aspx?cmd=get_file&ref=11395&cd=cd
I am living in Munich and we have already contacted quite a few glaciers in Munich trying to buy a magic mirror glas (even contacted one glacier in Rosenheim) and up to now we have not been successful.
Honestly I am attempted to buy the glas at myspiegel.de since - at least in the Munich area - it seems impossible to find a local glacier beeing capable to supply a spy mirror.
I have read the posts mentioning Stuttgart and Switzerland, however this is a little bit too far for me just to purchase the glas.
Any comments/ success story from someone in Munich area more than welcome

Patrick

For what did you exactly ask?
Spionspiegel?
2-Wege-Spiegel?
Venezianischer Spiegel?

I made the experience that most off the glaciers had no clue but after i explained it or used the names above, they had some solution for me…

Steff

@Patrick

Thanks for the fast reaction:
We did ask for Spionspiegel and - after having the feeling that it might not be completely clear - explicitely for the Pilkington glas, however did not (yet) find someone capable to sell what we are looking for.

Patrick

@Steff next time try it with the other buzzwords.
I think pilkington glas is just a brand. So if they don’t have a distributor, which sells pilkington, you have a problem.

deepshades

Good morning,

I think I will try the acrylic glas from myspiegel.de and hope it would do his job good.

Steff

Kindly apologize, seems like the link was not really working:
http://www.pilkington.com/de-de/de/produkte/produktkategorien/spezialglaeser/pilkington-mirroview

Blamer

That´s the EMail I received from Myspiegel.de. I have also added a screenshot of the datasheet of their mirrors they have sent me. Hope that helps.

Frank

Guten Tag Herr xyz,

vielen Dank für Ihre Anfrage und das damit verbundene Interesse an unseren Produkten.

Lt. Erfahrungswerten von unseren Kunden, hat unser Spionspiegel eine zu starke Tönung.

Im Anhang finden Sie auch noch einmal unser Datenblatt von unserem Spionspiegel.

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Patrick

@Blamer So either you get a bright screen or you can just use it in a dark room

deepshades

But, which mirror are the other guys using?
Why it is so difficult to find a fitting mirror in Germany?

Blamer

A bright screen could be a solution. I must say that I did not test the mirrors of Myspiegel.de since I found a good solution in a local shop here in Stuttgart.

I did not make the experience that it is difficult to get a mirror in Stuttgart. But the prices the local glazier would have charged me for a 50 x 50cm mirror were around 150€! I found out that most glazier here do have the same sub supplier, called a glas shop (Google: Search for Glasgroßhandel + city). So I organized the address of the sub supplier (for Stuttgart: http://fluess-glas.de/), gave them a call and asked them, whether it is o.k. if I purchase the mirror directly from them. It ended up that I payed 80 € for the mirror, and it works excellent!

Steff: If worse comes to worst there is a glas shop 100km away from Munich in my home town in Ulm: http://www.glastroesch.de/glas/540-spionspiegel.html

marcel0024

@deepshades So did you buy one yet?

deepshades

@marcel0024 no, haven’t bought one yet. Still thinking about the right fitting mirror, hate it.

DirkS

I don’t get the point why myspiegel should not work. I’ve ordered last friday and will get it in this week. I will report.

But myspiegel seems to block each special request. I also asked for painted acryl for my kitchen but with my paint (same as kitchen cabinets) Their answer was in just one sentence: no.

Maybe they don’t like special requests and tell no before thinking about it.