How to turn an ordinary mirror into a heated mirror

The case of the undersized flat

Many apartments were heated to the minimum, with a power calculated on assumptions that no longer match how they are lived in. Adding an appliance is not always possible: the consumer unit is full, the building rules forbid drilling the facade, and there is no free wall left.

Why a secondary source rather than a rebuild

Redoing the heating installation of an occupied flat is expensive and puts the home out of use. A well placed secondary source in the room that lacks it costs a fraction of that, needs no building work, and goes in within a morning.

What keeping your own mirror changes

Heating manufacturers offer radiant mirrors whose format and appearance are imposed. By converting the one you already have, or the one you would have chosen anyway, that constraint disappears: the room stays the one you wanted.

The panel that makes it possible

Mirolia is a rigid panel three millimetres thick, combining a heating film with a technical insulation. It bonds to the back of the mirror, insulation towards the wall, which sends the heat into the room rather than into the partition. Nothing projects and nothing shows.

What to check beforehand

A supply nearby, how the mirror is fixed, and the absence of fragile backing or a recessed frame behind it. Those three points take five minutes to check and save an order that would have been useless.

The full tutorial is on the Mirolia panel fitting page, and ordering on the page devoted to the product.