Completed project: oversized mirror hanging in Newmarket

A customer in Summerhill found the perfect arched mirror for their entryway — six feet tall, fifty kilograms, and exactly the kind of piece that ends up shattered when it's hung on a picture hook. They called us before finding that out the hard way.

Why heavy mirrors fail

Most mirror disasters share a cause: hardware rated for a fraction of the weight, anchored into drywall alone. Add an older home's plaster walls — which crumble around standard anchors — and the failure is just a matter of time. The fix is spreading the load: a French cleat anchored into studs carries the weight along the whole rail instead of two small points.

How we hung it

• Located studs behind the plaster with a deep-scan finder
• Mounted a French cleat rail across two studs, laser-levelled
• Fitted the mating cleat to the mirror frame with through-bolts
• Lifted, seated, and weight-tested with a pull check
• Added felt standoffs so the frame sits flush and doesn't mark the wall

The result

Forty-five minutes on site, one mirror that isn't going anywhere for decades. If you've got a heavy piece waiting in a hallway — a mirror, a statement frame, a gym mirror wall — that's exactly the job we built our mounting service around.