Msupsic
Marc S.
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Last year, we remodeled our master bath. The job took longer than the contractor anticipated, and he started to get antsy and cut corners so he could finish the job. When he installed our medicine cabinet (see attached photos), he simply put the metal brackets aside and decided to glue the unit to the tile wall.
I caught him in the act, and had a conversation with him about using the proper hangers that came with the mirror. His answer was, that he didn't have a tile bit for his drill, and that the construction adhesive would hold every bit as well. In his words, "That's not going anywhere."
Will this be OK? I don't necessarily trust that some mastic is going to hold a 50-lb mirror to the wall for the rest of my life. Especially with my wife and I, pulling on the doors day in and day out. In a bathroom that gets humid and hot in the summer, and cold and dry in the winter.
Should I wait for this thing to fall off the wall, smash the faucet to pieces, and flood the bathroom, and then call back the contractor to do it all again? Or should I just go buy some brackets and fix it before it fails?
I caught him in the act, and had a conversation with him about using the proper hangers that came with the mirror. His answer was, that he didn't have a tile bit for his drill, and that the construction adhesive would hold every bit as well. In his words, "That's not going anywhere."
Will this be OK? I don't necessarily trust that some mastic is going to hold a 50-lb mirror to the wall for the rest of my life. Especially with my wife and I, pulling on the doors day in and day out. In a bathroom that gets humid and hot in the summer, and cold and dry in the winter.
Should I wait for this thing to fall off the wall, smash the faucet to pieces, and flood the bathroom, and then call back the contractor to do it all again? Or should I just go buy some brackets and fix it before it fails?