Mounting mirror in area of studs (load bearing wall)

[ElCI]

Hi all

Potential I'm overthinking this.
My wife has bought a large sized (around 10-15kg) mirror. It will sit above a radiator and has to be aligned with it so no real scope to adjust position.

I took a magnet to locate the wall studs (I think that's the right term , the wooden beams that make up the supporting wall, this is an external, load bearing wall) and they are right in the vicinity of where the mirror fixings are going to be. Basically the fixings are maybe something like 30mm from where the magnet is picking up metal.

I feel like this is going to be in vicinity of edge of the stud, so might be sorted of half in/half off. Not sure the best to approach this for fixings.

I had bought the self cutting raw plugs (can't remember the name) but expect these aren't for use if going into studs.

I did try the 3M claws, which I have used for other small mirrors, unused the 20kg version but they seemed to pull back out the wall far too easily and I didn't feel comfortable with the load of the mirror pulling on these.

Any general advice for how to proceed in this situation, I assume it's a fairly common "problem" but not sure the best way to tackle

 

[Deleted member 323070]

Cut a slot out of the plaster board to accept a strip of timber, fixed to the wooden beams, to fix the mirror to.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I had bought the self cutting raw plugs (can't remember the name) but expect these aren't for use if going into studs.

For fixing into timber studs, you would normally just use screws. What you describe, sounds like they were designed to be screwed into plasterboard, to provide the fixing, rather than into timber.

 

[GhostIntMachine]

For frameless mirrors have you considered Mirror Mate? Or is it a framed mirror?

If it is MF stud you are possiblt best off either fitting a timber pattress inside the wall and making good (as above) or using plasterboard fixings such as toggle fixings or "umbrella" fixings (the type which crush to clamp onto the board. Two fixings, one either side of a stud might be necessary to avoid half hitting the stud