Commercial glass
This is the service for a gym, studio or salon
Roxy Glass measures, cuts and installs full height mirror walls for gyms, fitness studios, dance studios and salons. Commercial mirror walls are fitted with safety backing so that a broken panel is held together rather than falling, which matters in any room where people train close to the glass.
Free estimates, no obligation. Request a free gym mirrors and mirror walls estimate.
If any of the following describes what you are looking at, this is the service that handles it.
Getting it right
A mirror wall is one of the most visible things in a training space and one of the easiest to get wrong. Four things decide how it turns out.
This is the one that matters most and the one most often skipped. Mirror reflects the wall behind it, so a wall that bows produces a reflection that bows. Checking and, where needed, packing or making good the wall is what stops the finished job looking like a funhouse.
In a room where weights are dropped and people move fast, an unbacked mirror that breaks puts glass across the floor. Safety backed mirror holds the pieces on the film. In a commercial training space this is not an upgrade, it is the correct specification.
Panels have to be joined on any long wall. Planning where those joints fall, so they do not cut through the main sightline of someone checking their form, is a five minute decision that changes how the room feels for years.
Large panels are heavy. Adhesive alone is not enough on a full height commercial panel. Mechanical support at the bottom edge carries the weight while the adhesive cures and afterwards, and the method is chosen for what the wall is actually made of.
The work itself
These are the stages the job actually runs through, from the first look at the opening to the finished glass.
What happens next
Call the line for your area or send the estimate form. A photo of the damage and a rough measurement lets us tell you straight away whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement.
Glass is cut to the opening, not to a catalog size, so the measurement has to be exact. For most jobs we measure on site. For a simple pane you can measure it yourself and we will tell you how.
The estimate is free and it sets out the glass type, the thickness, whether safety glazing is required and what the work involves. Nothing is ordered until you approve it.
Standard glass is usually cut at our Newark shop. Sealed double pane units, tempered glass and made to order shapes are fabricated to your measurements, which is what sets the lead time.
We fit the glass, check that it seals and operates properly, and take the old glass and packaging away with us.
Cost
Roxy Glass does not publish a fixed price for this work, because the price depends on the opening in front of us. Estimates are free, so the fastest way to get a real number is to send the measurements and a photo, or to have us come and measure.
Where we do this work
This work is carried out from our Newark shop across Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco and southern Marin County.
Santa Clara County from San Jose out to Los Gatos and Cupertino.
San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas.
San Mateo County and the northern Santa Clara Valley.
Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Atherton, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, Foster City, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Bruno.
The Tri City area, the Hayward and Oakland corridor and the shoreline cities.
Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Alameda, Richmond.
Inland Alameda County and central Contra Costa County.
Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, Sunol, San Ramon, Danville, Alamo, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Concord, Martinez.
San Francisco, northern San Mateo County and southern Marin County.
San Francisco, South San Francisco, Daly City, San Rafael, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Corte Madera, San Anselmo, Tiburon.
Send your details on the free estimate form and the team that covers your address will answer. You can also call the Newark shop on (510) 400-7788, which is where every Bay Area job is dispatched from.
Questions
In any space where people train close to the glass, it is the right specification and we recommend it without exception. Safety backed mirror has a film bonded to the back, so if a panel is struck and breaks, the pieces are held on the film rather than falling onto the floor where people are training barefoot or lifting. The additional cost is small relative to what it prevents.
Most commercial installations start the mirror above the floor rather than at it, typically clear of the skirting and of any equipment that sits against the wall. Lifting it off the floor keeps the bottom edge out of the way of dropped weights and cleaning water, and it gives a clean line. Where a barre is fitted, the mirror is planned around its brackets.
Almost always because the wall behind them is not flat. Mirror follows whatever it is fixed to, so a bowed or uneven wall produces a visibly distorted reflection no matter how good the glass is. That is why we check the wall before quoting, and why a wall that needs packing or making good is worth doing properly before the mirror goes up.
Mirror can only be made and handled up to a certain size, and getting a very large panel into the room is often the real constraint. Long walls are made as matched panels with tight butt joints. We plan where those joints fall so they land sensibly rather than through the middle of the main sightline, and we size the panels so they can physically get into the room.
Usually yes, by working in sections or outside opening hours. Mirror installation involves large panels and adhesive curing, so the working area needs to be closed off while we are in it. Tell us your opening hours and access arrangements at the estimate stage so the schedule is planned around them.
Wall mirrors, vanity mirrors, mirrored closet doors and full mirror walls, cut to size and installed.
Read about mirrors and closet doors
Interior glass walls, offices and meeting rooms that keep the light and the sightlines while dividing the space.
Read about glass partition walls
Storefront windows, entry doors and aluminum framing repaired or replaced so the business can reopen.
Read about storefront glass
Next step
Send the wall dimensions and a photo of the space, including anything the mirror has to work around. We will tell you the panel layout and the specification we would recommend.
Estimates are free. Tell us what broke, send a photo if you have one, and we will tell you whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement before any work is booked.
Leave a message or use the estimate form and we will reply when we open.
