How to Hang a Cheval Mirror on Your Wall
A cheval mirror usually comes in the kind of a standing piece that rests on the floor. It’s secured to the rack by two ornamental screws through either side of the full-length mirror, but you can remove the screws and then store the rack if you want to work with the mirror to the wall instead. With a picture-hanging kit sized to the weight of the mirror, you can hang the cheval mirror since a big wall decoration.
Wall Hanger in a Stud
Detach the cheval mirror in the rack. Unscrew the ornamental screws at either side, and then tape them securely to the back of the cheval mirror rack so that you don’t lose them when the rack is in storage.
Weigh yourself on a scale. Write down the amount. Weigh yourself to the scale holding just the cheval mirror. Subtract your normal weight in the weight while holding the mirror. This amount is the weight of the mirror.
Get braided steel wire, ring hangers along with a hanger ranked to support the weight of the mirror. For example, a solid oak cheval mirror 60 inches tall by 16 inches wide with a rack has a entire shipping weight of 33 1/2 pounds. After you remove the rack, a single 30-pound mirror or picture hanger should adequately support the mirror. The weight picture hangers will hold is determined by the packing.
Assess the length of the cheval mirror, and then divide the dimension by three. Measure 1/3 down the distance of the back of the mirror about the sides and then make a mark. Repeat for the other side of the mirror. Lay the mirror face down on a carpeted floor or a flat, cushioned surface to defend the mirror.
Hold a yardstick or straightedge between the 2 measurements, and place a flat on it to confirm the marks are at precisely the exact same location on either side of the back of the mirror. Adjust as required.
Drill a small pilot hole in the back of the frame at the marked site. Insert the wood screws through the hole for the screw from the ring hanger and into the pilot holes to the back of the mirror frame. Tighten the screw. Repeat for the other ring hanger. Fix the ring hangers so that the rings face toward the middle of the mirror.
Measure between the 2 screws to cut a piece of wire that length and at least 8 inches.
Install the wire on the back of the mirror, inserting the wire through a single ring hanger, pulling at least 4 inches through the hole in the hanger. Twist the 4-inch tail over and beneath the wire that will stretch across the mirror to the other side. Pull the wire taut to secure it to the ring hanger on the other side of the mirror in exactly the exact same style, wrapping the tail toward the middle of the mirror over and under the wire.
Apply tension to the hanging wire by pulling it toward the surface of the mirror. Assess the distance from the surface of the wire to the peak of the mirror. Keep in mind this measurement — it helps you to decide on the area on the wall for those hangers and gauge where the top of the mirror will be when hung.
Apply the stud finder to the wall to locate a stud to your picture hanger. The hanger should have a small hook that protrudes to hold the wire on the back of the mirror. Mark the stud location on the wall.
Hammer the nail through the picture hanger at the marked stud location on the wall.
Hang the mirror set up. Adjust as required to make it straight and level.
Toggle Bolt Hanger
Use a tap bolt through a hanger if you don’t have a stud to hang the mirror where you desire. Ready the mirror to hang in precisely the exact same way.
Drill a hole in the drywall slightly bigger than the spring-loaded wings of the tap bolt when collapsed.
Insert the wings through the hole, holding the head of the screw using the hanger on it. Once the wings have opened inside the wall, hold the screw firmly so the wings remaining inside of the wall as you tighten the screw with the screwdriver. For bigger mirrors, add another toggle bolt and hanger spaced from 6 to 8 inches apart from the bolt. Boost the distance for wider mirrors as required.
Hang the mirror and then fix it.
