Sandra Wilson At Your Service!

Mirror Resilvering In Southern California, by Sandra

Your mirror resilvering services are now in Anaheim, California. Please continue for additional information.

After 25 years of public service providing glass, mirrors and mirror resilvering, West Coast Woodworks is proud to announce Sandra's retirement in this field. She has transferred into our Human Resources Department, and will still be available to answer your questions. We want to take this time to thank all of our antique and glass clients for years of dedication and repeat business. All of you are what made our mirror resilvering especially successful and thank you so very much. Time has flown by way too fast.

West Coast Woodworks has passed our silvering expertise and formula on to Pa's Place Antiques. Jim has been in the glass industry for over 40 years and has the knowledge to carry on the mirror resilvering business with promising success.  

The company is Pa's Place Antiques owned by Jim Wingert. You may contact Jim at 714-563-7561 in Anaheim, California. Located between Ball Rd. and Lincoln Avenue, customer service and mirror drop is within Anaheim Glass. The address is: 542 South Anaheim Blvd. Anaheim, CA 92805. The phone number for Anaheim Glass is 714-535-4940. 

Please contact Jin regarding current mirror resilvering prices.

• Smaller mirrors are a flat rate per piece.
  This includes hand mirrors, auto rear view mirrors and other pieces, such as small secretary mirrors. Plateau mirrors fall into this category also.

• All mirrors over the minimum are then priced at a square foot price. In the antique category, this would be dresser and most wall mirrors.

• Mirrors that have multiple pieces, such as Venetian mirrors are priced with consideration to the number of pieces.

• Dresser mirrors, with a wing mirror on each side, usually run higher. If removal and replacement back into the frames is required, an extra cost would apply.

• If a mirror comes into the shop in a frame, there is a handling fee for taking the mirror out of the frame and putting it back again. Depending on the size of the mirror. Some armoire mirrors can be pretty large! Please call for prices.
    

• Each mirror or piece of glass to be silvered has to be treated individually, so understanding how age and the elements affect glass is very important. many people do not realize that silvering results are only as good as the glass. For reasons unknown, the mirrors that have been the most difficult to obtain the best reflection are French mirrors.

The process requires soaking the old silver and paint in a tank of solution for a day or two. The stripped mirror, now glass, is cleaned well on all sides, including the edges. The glass is then further cleaned with acid, and polished with rouge or pumice until it feels smooth to the touch. After rinsing, distilled water is applied and followed with a special solution to enable the silver formula to actually adhere to the glass. The silver formula is a clear liquid by itself. However, after it is applied to the glass, it solidifies and turns silver in about 20 seconds. After the glass is silvered and results acceptable, the excess water from rinsing is dried. A layer of shellac is applied and when that has dried, mirror back paint is rolled or brushed on. Pa's Place turn around for mirror resilvering is  approximately 10 days to 2 weeks. Many people wonder is there is sales tax on resilvering. There is not.

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Last modified: November 15, 2008