New doors for medicine cabinets

if you can take the door off, you can bring it to any glass/mirror place and they will make it for you.

i had a mirror door wardrobe that i did that too for under $100.

This is a question that Primer can answer best and refer you to a showroom(s)/retail.
It's good to get fresh, new medicine cabinets. You don't need to "tear up the walls".
Just take measurements, remove the old cabinets and hang the new cabinets over the space(s).

ab: You removed and replaced that mirror door wardrobe, by yourself?

yes i did. 4 screws and 40 lbs. this is a medicine cabinet, no need to pay $300+ to get a new one that fits in the same space or having someone come in to rip it out and install a new one that is larger. that will be closer to $500+.

ab: you are a man of many talents.

Sometimes there is a need for a new medicine cabinet, it depends on what the interior looks like, perhaps all rusty inside. If the inside is in good condition then you might be able to have a glass person give you a new door.

If you want some recommendations you can email me at primerenovations@mac.com

Absent the services of the multi-talented "ab":

A co-op or condo board would want an "alteration agreement" requiring the Certificate of Insurance of whomever
took a glass panel out of the Building (and returned with a new one, as is the case with "ab", who must have snuck that glass out of the building, past the doorman (if he has one); and had a car (or the help of a friend who carried, and drove that mirrored door(s) to "any glass/mirror place".

If the glass/mirror gets dropped and broken and/or causes any damage to a common area/person(s) on the floor of the Building's property:
the fine that will be charged to the owner/shareholder/resident by the Building's Board, will make that "ab" quote of $500. look like a good deal in retrospect.

You should see the meds in columbiac0unty's cabinet. Some of those meds should NOT be mixed.

not new.

you aren't trying hard enough.

nycsometimes:
Just contact Primer for a referral.
This is not a good idea for a DIY project.
Never mind the Board fines and the potential liability to you:
the 7-years of bad luck, upon breaking that mirror, is all on you.

Amazing. The original poster asked a very simple question:

"Does anyone know whether it's possible to get new doors fabricated, without having to tear up the walls for new cabinets?"

The answer is yes.

I'd suggest you start by taking a few pictures of the doors in question and showing them to a glass repair shop. They'll be able to lay out your options.

If you're comfortable removing and replacing the doors yourself, then do it. Please ignore the threats of board fines. This is no more dangerous than transporting a jar of tomato sauce.

If you're not comfortable doing the work yourself, then have somebody else do it.

Truth needs to have his/her teeth cleaned as it's too difficult.

Having to get board approval/licensed contractor with all insurance paperwork would cost over $1000 just for labor and would take over a month. Using a screw driver, you can be out the door in less than 1/2 hour. Even the dumbest super would do this for $50, max.

Yeah, her "teeth". Wink, wink. That's right. She's "dentally" ill.

ab: You don't go to the dentist for teeth cleaning? That's another of your DYI talents? How much money does it save you?

The job wouldn't require board approval, just a Certificate of Insurance faxed to the managing agent.
"ab and flarf": transporters of glass and jars of tomato sauce.

If you pay the dumb super 50 bucks, then it's the dumb super's problem if he drops the mirrored doors.
There's still no need to "tear up the walls".

Mad cow. Yammering on about a three-pound object that's not particularly big or unwieldy.

Ab,

Why would it take a month if you use a contractor? and why would it be over $1,000.00?

Primer: Why waste time here asking ab logical questions?
Just dial: 1-800-abflarf.

primer, if you have to submit the paperwork to the management, you'll be lucky to have something start within a month.

if they request, like always, to be named on the insurance explicitly, that's extra chargess as well. would you take a job this small and go through all of the pain for less than $1K? just the paperwork and BS would end up costing anyone a few hrs.

sorry i wasn't clear Truth, you have a servant brushing your teeth and wiping your butt as you're too good.

most likely have a motorized wheelchair as walking is so passe.

All this talk of insurance certs and board approval is utterly stupid. Like anyone would EVER need an insurance cert or a contractor to carry in a wall mirror they just bought at Bed Bath and Beyond. puleeeze. It's just a frggin mirror that happens to screw onto a cabinet.

West34: You are the man of steel and you can leap tall buildings...

I never said that it would require Board approval, just a certificate of insurance faxed to the managing agent. It's a small alteration that involves transporting glass.
Some building Boards may be O.K. with glass being carried by residents through the hallways, in the elevator, up/down the stairs and through the lobby. It all might be uneventful and nothing broken, nobody hurt and no harm done.

If your glass/mirror breaks and causes damage (especially to another person) it's seven-years bad luck to you and a lot of money to the person who gets cut, just to reimburse for medical bills.
If you think this has never happened you are wrong.

ab: No need to apologize to me. You're an a_hole.

Well this thread has gone a bit Monty Python. I'm imagining the scene whereby not only is someone unlucky enough to drop a small mirror in one of the few non-carpeted common areas, but then a passer-by is so dazzled by a few bits of mirror that it causes him to keel over and severe a finger off.

The more likely scenario, in the very unlikely event that you drop it, is that you either just sweep it up - taking care to remain unmolested by any sharp edges - or go talk to the doorman and see if the super/porter can help you clean it up.

Oops. Severe = sever.

stuvwxy: That scene would only happen if the guy was imitating John Cleese.
"The Ministry of Silly Walks", aside:

An emergency-room doctor once told me that he spends most of his shift stitching-up people who arrive there cut by broken glass/ mirrors.
Mirrors don't fall only on a carpeted floor. They hit the hallway/elevator/lobby door/wall and it's a big mess.
In NYC apartment buildings there are other residents sharing the hallways, elevators and lobby.
That's why the Board has rules regarding alterations.

ab still doesn't get that Primer is not in the glass/mirror business. He can give a reco to those who are.
Those businesses don't charge $1000. for replacing/installing bathroom vanity mirrored doors.
The Certificate doesn't entail that many hours of work time added to the job.
You can get new glass shower doors measured, removed and replaced for less than that.