Has anyone tried glasseless (mylar) mirrors in their riding arena??? I am thinking about trying something like this: https://glasslessmirror.com/ My big question is how they will hold up with all the dust, humidity and temperature change in an indoor arena. (They seem to be primarily made for indoors). I think I remember someone on this list getting some a couple years ago. Any updates??
They get dull and distorted very quickly, IME.
A barn I rode at had them – several mirrors seemed to form “wrinkles” across where they mylar was stretched as seasons / humidity, etc. changed.
HOW quickly? Months, or years? The price and convenience would make them worth while to me if they would last for a couple years, but not if they would get ruined faster than that.
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We’ve had them for about 9 years (I think - time flies) at the barn I board at - in the indoor. They’ve been very good for a long time. They will rip if a bird flies into them or a horse kicks them etc. We’ve used duct tape to keep the rip from spreading. The humidity has only just started to make them wrinkle at the edges - maybe this happening sooner rather than later has to do with installation. The view in them is very clear even with a few rips and wrinkles.
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indoor or outdoor?
I looked at their website. The mirrors sounded good until we got to shipping charges. Yikes!
How bad?? I bookmarked it because it looked promising.
Depends on how careful you are with them. If you touch them, with anything, they will scratch… so, no horse noses, no birds, no cats rubbing along them on top of the kick wall, no dusters, no rags… basically no cleaning with anything except compressed air (and you have to be careful about how much pressure so you don’t stretch/rip the material). And of course, if you’re in an indoor and there’s dust, the dust is going to settle on them and make them dull… and then you can’t clean them (except with compressed air).
A friend had them in her private indoor and was extremely careful, but even so - I think they looked really good (clear, unmarked, unwarped from humidity/condensation, etc.) for about a year.
E-mail them. – the automatic quotes on the website estimate the same shipping cost for EACH mirror - which was about $200 for me. However, if you communicate with an actual person, it turns out that freight shipping is about the same no matter how many you ship at once, and the company is quite negotiable for large orders (i.e. over $1000). Also, you can save by picking it up at the freight terminal rather than getting them delivered.
Hmm, it sounds like a piece of 1/4" plexiglass in front could really help – and that is inexpensive and easy enough to do.
Yep, about $200 in shipping. And not going to buy enough for a volume discount.
