This article does not mean which hotel design company has problems in design.We just simply summarize the problems in the application of hotel anti-fog mirror and bathroom LED mirror according to our 21 years' experiences and remind the hotel interior design companies especially the owner to solve the existing problems in the design scheme to avoid any economic loss.

As we all know, the hotel interior design is a complicated system engineering. The luxury hotels are designed by either the international famous interior design companies such as HBA, Wilson, DPD, P49, LTW, etc. or the domestic first-class design companies such as CCD, PLD, Golden Mantis Design Institute, deep decoration General Design Institute, etc. They are all the leaders in this field. Is there no problem of their designs? No, they are the master in his own special filed, but there is the big difference between design concepts and manufacture. They may not be very clear about details to cause many problems in their designs.

With regard to the application of fog-free mirrors in hotels, the main problems are existed as follows.

The energy saving technology of anti-fog mirror is not considered in the design, which causes the great power waste to the hotel.

Maybe many people think that the power rating of the fog free mirror is very small with small power consumption. Let's have a look. In China, the power rating of the anti-fog mirror is about 180W / m2, and it uses one KWH electricity under the condition of continuously powering on about six hours. The electricity how much should be paid depends on the local electricity charges.

 What’s the problem?

1. Most of the hotel interior designs do not consider the energy saving technology of anti-fogging mirror. Because most of the designs firstly consider the basic function and the effect of decoration. As for save electricity and money for the owners, It is not the thing what the designers care. It has nothing to do with their design fees. This is the reality.
2. The person who is in charge at the owner’s party. The decoration director may not know the power saving technology of the anti-fog mirror, or may not pay attention to this detail when reviewing the design scheme. In most cases, the boss of the development company doesn’t know it.
3. The decoration company must construct according to the drawings, and the quotation for decoration must also be made according to the design scheme and the requirements of the owner. There is no design scheme, no special requirements from the owner, the decoration company will not increase this investment for the owner at its own expense.

 If you use Electricity Energy Saved technique, how much charges can you save?

 General Situation of Hotel Fogless Mirror (Mirror Defogger Size:1200x1200mm)

The analysis based on the following fictional case:

 1. Occupancy Rate of Hotel:80%

 2. Average time of guest in room:12 hours.Total time of using hot water: 0.5 hour

 3. Cycle of hotel renovation：8 years

Analysis of Electricity Consumption & Electricity Charge

Mirror Cracked

In the design and decoration of hotels and villas, the bathroom mirrors with light are popular with designers and owners because of their beauty, fashion and taste. As time goes by, the problems of installation, maintenance and even non maintenance of various bathroom light mirrors are gradually exposed, which makes the owner to lose money. The design or decoration company of the project gets poor evaluation accordingly. Whether you're a hotel owner or a villa owner, there's the only way to compensate it and install it again to solve these problems. Therefore, if you know these problems before decorating your hotel or villa, you can solve this problem at the design stage to avoid  troubles and losses for you. 

This article does not mean which hotel design company has problems in design.We just want to conceal the recent situation in this field and remind the hotels, the villa owners and the related designers to pay attention to this problem and solve it to create economic value for owners.

Let’s see the failure examples.

Project Name: The Bathroom Mirror with light of Sheraton Qiandao Lake Resort

Maintenance Plan: Need to break the glass to repair the LED light or LED driver. The new mirror should be bought for installation. 

The estimated cost is USD580.00/PC. In order to repair this mirror, some jobs must be done such as protect the site, remove the mirror ,etc. It is much more difficult to remove the mirror than installing this mirror. Therefore, the maintenance charge is about USE1159.00/PC. It will cause the repaired guestroom cannot open in 1 week.

Project Name: The Bathroom Mirror with light of Grand New Century Hotel Hangzhou

Maintenance Plan: Need to break the glass to repair the LED light or LED driver. The new mirror should be bought for installation. 

This mirror is made up of two-layer stainless steel frame added five pieces mirrors, the light is illuminated through the sandblasted strips around this mirror. There are LED strips, LED driver and mirror defogger in this mirror. The stainless steel frame and mirror are stuck on the base board by gel. The estimated cost is USD580.00/PC. In order to repair this mirror, some jobs must be done such as protect the site, remove the mirror, etc. It is much more difficult to remove the mirror than installing this mirror. Therefore, the maintenance charge is about USD1159.00/PC. It will cause the repaired guestroom cannot open in 1 week. I lived in the above hotels and found some lights are not lighting, some mirrors are half lighting. In addition, the connected angles of frame solution are not good on site. 

Project Name: The Pubilc Bathroom TV Mirror of Nanning Airport

Maintenance Plan: Need to break the glass to repair the LED light, LED driver and television. The new mirror should be bought for installation. We don't know whether the TV can be reusable or not. 

 Expect for the mirror cost, the maintenance way is same as above, the cost will be high.

The projects listed above are all five-star hotels which were invested and built by large companies. The world-class design company is in charge of the interior design. The national first-class construction qualification companies. Supervision and consultants to undertake these projects. As the owner of the villa or the owner of ordinary home decoration, do you know the design? Do you know the problems in design? Do you have a supervisor to check the quality of your decoration? The answer is No. If you get to know these problems in advance, you can avoid the troubles. 

 What’s the problem? It is caused by design.

1 Most designs consider the mirrors are made by decoration company on site. The mirrors are stuck on the base wooden board by gel. Under the guidance of this design scheme, the mirror cannot be disassembled and repaired. 

As long as the owner agrees with the design scheme, the decoration company only constructs according to the drawings. When the LED light, the LED power and other electrical appliances break down two years later,  you find that they cannot be repaired. The design fee and decoration fee have been paid off. Who will pay for the repair? If you want to believe that the LED light and the LED power can last for 10 years, that's  your business. The mirror made according to this plan must be broken before it can be repaired. If it is a hotel, the guesrooms involved in maintenance cannot be operated for a week, and the cost of all aspects will be more than twice of the purchase cost during decoration. If it's a family, it's either going to cost a lot of money to repair it, or it's going to put up with that ugly mirror. 

Please forgive and understand designers, they can not be professional in everything. You should find the professional supplier to do these professional things. It's important to you to know where the problem is first. At the design step, we should solve the potential problems in the decoration in advnace avoid losses and troubles to you in future. 

2 If the mirror is with frame, most designers only consider the final effect by concept, however, they don't consider whether it can be made or not from the manufacturing art. If the product can be made, how much is the cost? It is pity that the light mirror manufacturer is not a high-technology enterprises. It is impossible to make all products by drawing. If it is workable, the high cost can't be accepted by all consumers. 

Let’s see this example.

Project Name: Shenyang JW Marriott Hotel

Please don’t tell me these problems are only existed in hotel projects, not in home or villa decoration. Please check your drawing carefully, maybe you can get an answer from it.

Different design, different problem, it is impossible to list all problems. Is there any solution?

Yes, the answer is to find the professional supplier to solve your problem. However, few factories can do it, BAGEN is the classic  representative to provide solution for you.

As for products which are sold online and in building materials markets, we will make bathroom mirror analysis, welcome to your attention. 

As a professional supplier of high quality bathroom fog free mirrors and LED backlit mirrors, Shanghai Bagen Electronic Science & Technology Co., Ltd is specialized in designing and manufacturing bathroom mirror defogger, fog free mirror and different kinds of  LED illuminated mirrors since 1999. We serve for five-star hotels, luxury hospitality and villas.

With so many years focus on this products, BAGEN accumulated a wealth of experience which can ensure BAGEN products are not only beautiful, high quality, but also have the feasibility and convenience in manufacture, installation and maintenance. Bagen is listed as the preferred products by five-star hotels and luxury villa projects. Marriott, Hilton, intercontinental, Starwood, Hyatt, Accor hotels,etc are BAGEN’s clients. BAGEN is the China Hotel Industry appointed brand.

Bagen is the leading is specialized in designing and manufacturing fog free mirror over 21 years. In past 20 years, the anti-fog mirrors are only used in high-star hotels. At that time, few people knows this product. Through 20 years’ efforts, the fog free mirrors are widely used in the luxury hotels at home and abroad. The European building materials markets start sell the anti-steam mirrors to the consumers. More and more people know it and install it in their house.

 What problems are happened when installing fog free mirrors?

1     Forget to reserve the power on the wall

This situation is always happened as below photo.

2  The place of power is incorrect

Please look at the below photo. The power at two sides should be for lights. If the power of anti-fog mirror and light in parallel connection. The uneven mirror backing will cause the mirror installation unstably.

3 The reserved gap is too small to cause the mirror cracked after heating mirror.

Take the above photos as examples, if the mirror bottom is against the marble, one of the two mirror sides is against the side marble, there is basically no gap. When the anti-fogging mirror is heated, the probability of mirror crack is as high as 60%.

According to our project experiences,we collected the follow conditions which make the electric mirror may crack when design&install electric heated mirror.

The bathroom light mirrors have been widely used in the hotels, villas and ordinary residents because of its beauty, fashion and taste, which is deeply loved by designers and owners.

The bathroom mirrors are sold at the e-commerce platforms and building materials markets,which look good from its appearance.

This article analyzes bathroom backit mirrors for reference and application.

First, we should obey the principle, the price depends on quality. It is impossible to get a good quality product by the low price.

What product you buy depends on your target and the requirements of your taste.

Let us to analyze the following five kinds of mirror structure.

1. The mirror whose mirror is stuck on the frame
2. The mirrors with the iron light box pasted at mirror back.
3. The Hang on/off type mirror
4. The Pull-push type mirror
5. The Open upward/downward Type

Please see the details of backlit mirrors at e-commerce platforms and building materials markets. The photos in this article are not very nice,however, please pay attention to the inner structure. Thanks.

Type one: The mirror whose mirror is stuck on the frame

安装方式

Structure & Advantages and Disadvantages 

TYPE 2: The mirrors with the iron light box pasted at mirror back.

Structure & Advantages and Disadvantages 

The mirrors with the above structure were mainly sold in the retail market of developed countries 10 years ago.Most of them are small sizes products (the area is less than 0.8 square meters).

Which structure of this product is reasonable?

1. Good Product Effect, Good Quality, Good Taste.
2. Convenient Installation
3. Convenient Maintenance 
4. Good Quality Materials

TYPE 3  The Hang on/off type mirror

Because the weight of 5mm thickness mirror is 12.5kgs/m², it is a little heavy.The bathroom walls, counter tops, faucets, basins are hard objects, the mirror will be damaged accidentally.Therefore, we suggest you choose hang on/off type, if the mirror is smaller than 1m². It is convenient, practical and economical.

The mirror and the light box are separated. The paint surface of the mirror is pasted with hooks and anti fog film, and the aluminum light box is equipped with LED light and LED driver. During installation, precise positioning is not required. The punching position is the mark of the template,it is very convenient to hang mirror on the light box.

Installation

1  Install the aluminium light box at the appropriate location.

2  Connect LED driver to make LED light on.

3  Connect defogger wire

4  Hang mirror on the light box

Key points: The mirror of this structure is very convenient for installation and maintenance. It can be completed by anyone who don’t know any technology.

TYPE 4  The Pull-push Type Mirror

Due to the limitations of the installation conditions on site, it is not allowed to install the hanging mirror or the mirror area is larger than 1m², so the pull-push structure can be selected.

Installation

1  Install the aluminium light box at the appropriate location. Connect LED driver to make LED light on.

2  Pull out the push-pull fixture at the maximum place.

3  Hang the mirror with brackets on the push-pull fixture

4  Fix the push-pull fixture and the brackets by screws.

5  Connect mirror defogger cable with the power. Hold the mirror bottom and make the mirror oblique upward to fold the push-pull fixture, the mirror is returned to the place where is closed to the frame.

TYPE 5: The Open upward/downward Mirror

The open upward/downward structure is the most suitable for the hotels and hospitality. Please see the below project photos.

           Doctor Backlit Mirror issued the prescription for buying the light box mirror as follows.

In short, choose the right products according to your budget, your demands about quality and taste.

If you choose the mirror that is pasted together with the frame, you can go to the e-commerce platform or the building materials market.

If you choose high-quality hang on/off,Pull-push type mirror and Open upward/downward Type mirrors, Shanghai Bagen will be your best choice.