Bathroom Magic Mirror

PaulB

@spitzlbergerj
I love your work. Could you recommend any tipps on how to build a mirror in the bath? I would like to do this as my next project. So are there any Best Practices regarding any silicone or electronics?.
Greetings from Germany :)

spitzlbergerj

@paulb Hallo Paul,
das Silicon, das ich verwendet habe, habe ich im Post angegeben. Der Spionspiegel verlangt ein spezielles Silicon (neutralvernetzend), damit die Beschichtung nicht angelöst wird. Und ansonsten habe ich Standard-Komponenten verwendet. Durch die Lüftungsöffnungen erhoffe ich mir eine bessere Belüftung. Bisher konnte ich keine Probleme feststellen.
Grüße
Sepp

lavolp3

@spitzlbergerj Impressive mirror!
Especially like the lighting solution.
What glass did you use? (also from Germany here)
What is the material you have used for the backplate?

spitzlbergerj

Hi @lavolp3,
I bought the LED light bar here
As described in the last section of the article, I purchased the mirror from Glas-Star.de and the Aluminium composite panel (ACP - german: Alu Dibond) from plattenzuschnitt24.de as my backplate.

The Aluminium composite panel is 4 mm thick and serves as a “black background” and as a mounting surface for all installations. It also stiffens the wooden frame on which I screwed the plate.
greetings
Sepp

lavolp3

@spitzlbergerj OK so you’re using the Mirropane Chrome Spy there I assume.
Going to order that as well since I have the feeling it’s the best glass for a well lit bath.

Thanks for the Alu Dibond tip.

PaulB

@spitzlbergerj Moin Sepp, danke für dein Feedback.
Werde es mal meiner Freundin vorschlagen… vllt wird das ja was :-D

Viele Grüße aus Hamburg,
Paul

michael5r

@spitzlbergerj Super nice build!

If you don’t mind, a couple of questions:

Seeing that you screwed the Dibond panel into the wood frame, did you cover up the screw holes afterwards or are they just not visible through the glass?
I didn’t see any brackets or bracing in the photos, so how are you actually holding the monitor in place?

Thanks!

spitzlbergerj

@michael5r Good morning,
I’ll be happy to answer the questions:

I did not cover the screws. You still can’t see them through the glass.
If you want to be sure, it should be sufficient to paint the screws with a black permanent marker.
The only thing you see at the moment (if you know where to look ;-) ) is a small gap between the wooden frame and the silicone. At this point I apparently didn’t press the glass on well enough when I glued it to the frame. But that’s a little something.

The monitor is actually already being fixed by the cutout in the Dibond plate. I adapted the cutout very exactly to the size of the screen. With an adhesive tape around it this is then sufficiently fixed. But I finally screwed two small angles to the wooden frame, which hold the monitor securely in the cutout of the panel. This is now doubly secure.

Another tip about the motion detector (see also the supplement above in the text):
In addition to the cutout for the monitor, I would now have an additional small cutout for the radar board (20 x 40 mm) made. The radar detector works perfectly, but unfortunately not through the Dibond plate. I had to fix it at the bottom of the frame. That’s OK, but it would have been perfect behind the mirror glass.

Many greetings

Sepp

acdacd2

Hello,

very nice and waf.

How did you fix the mirror on the wood ?

Thanks,

marc,

spitzlbergerj

@acdacd2 Hi, thank you very much.
The mirror glass is glued with silicone. The groove in the frame serves this purpose. See also the pictures/photos 3, 8 as well as 17 and 18.

SimtechBen

Very Nice Mirror! Quality work. Can you tell me how you wired up the radar sensor and where you finally placed it? I am assuming that you are using it to turn the screen on and off. What module did you use for that? I cannot get mine to trigger reliably.

bhepler

Excellent work! That is a really sharp looking mirror. And you obviously planned out a lot ahead of time. I especially love the cutouts for the angle brackets in the corners. That is some serious attention to detail.

spitzlbergerj

@bhepler Thank you. Yes, I’ve planned a long time. The mirror should be allowed to hang in the bathroom :-)

spitzlbergerj

@simtechben Hi, I connected the radar sensor like a PIR sensor and followed this description in the broadest sense (https://www.nils-snake.de/archives/magic-mirror-bewegungssensor-einbauen-teil-5). I adapted the script to my needs. But the logic is still as described in the article.
Now I glued the radar sensor outside in the middle of the lower frame board with white tape. So it lies horizontally on the frame at the bottom. Not optimal in alignment, but it works and my wife agreed ;-)
As described above, I would simply place it behind the mirror if there was no Dibond plate or if it had a corresponding cutout.

Ramez

really nice :) just a small question, how did you mount it to the bath wall? you drilled the wall for some hings or what?

many thanks :thumbs_up:

spitzlbergerj

@ramez Hi,
Thank you for your kind words of praise.
On picture 7 you can see my assembly construction. I use the same principle as for a kitchen wall cabinet. A rail is mounted on the wall. The construction hangs then with special fittings on this rail. The advantage of these fittings is that they are height-adjustable and depth-adjustable. This makes exact positioning possible. This is very good for drilling between tiles, because you should only drill in the joints.
I then fastened the frame itself with screws from above through the frame into the substructure (see picture 24).
Here are the links:
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01MPZM5ER/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B01BDR8K32/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

cowboysdude

Excellent job!

secdude

@spitzlbergerj Hi, i’m planing to adapt that concept and plan for the respective cutout. Did you test the radar sensor through the mirror glas? Has it proven to work through Glas?

Gruesse aus DE,
Mat

spitzlbergerj

@secdude Hi,
no, I did not test the radar sensor properly through glass, because I had already installed the dibond plate. I’m pretty sure that the sensor will work well through glass alone or through glass with black cardboard behind… Of course I can’t give you a guarantee. However, my experiences with the sensor make this seem very, very likely.

secdude

@spitzlbergerj Danke fuer die Einschaetzung :)