Wall/board for full wall gym mirrors? PICS included! help!

[samso]

Hi everyone,

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LONG POST WARNING: (To simple it down - I want to build a wall/board to put gym mirrors onto, and looking for help making a wall/board that will hold them, if you can't help/not interested, don't read on Thank you for looking! )

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Right, I want to convert my garage into a small home gym. It's a classic rectangular garage with an opening garage door at the end. All the walls are brick, and has a concrete floor. Here's a couple photo's to put it into perspective:



Plan I made on Photoshop - http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/193/garageplan.jpg/

Photograph 1 - http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/imag0054od.jpg/

Hopefully that gives you an idea of the size.
I'm wanting to get 2 8ft x 3ft glass mirrors and somehow place them along the back (where the garage door is; what photo 1 is looking at)
Ideally, I want to make some sort of temporary wall(?) up along the back which I can then put the 2 mirrors on.

Here are some more pictures of the garage wall/door area:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/94/imag0052xg.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/96/imag0053n.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/imag0054od.jpg/

To give you an idea of how I would like/seems the best option here are some basic edits of the photos... (red line - wall/board area)

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/wall2j.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/35/wall1o.jpg/


So yeah, does anybody know how I can get those mirrors along that back wall? Do I need an actual wall? Could I just get a wood sheet and drill/nail/glue it to the brick area above the garage door?

I'm not really sure what I need to do, especially as I know huge mirrors will be incredibly heavy!

Thank a lot for reading, and hope to hear from you!

 

[ladylola]

Your best bet would be to put up a studded wall and clad it in ply , that would give you something solid and easy to fix to.
Have you looked at acyrilic mirrors? A friend of mine has done her kitchen wall in them and despite me thinking it looks tasteless as mirrors they work very well plus they are lighter and less easy to break.

 

[foxhole]

As LL suggested then simple top and bottom timber frame will hold them to wall, back with a sheet of polystyrene and it will dampen any impact reducing risk of breakage.
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