Frameless Shower Door Installation
Creating an elegant and transparent look for your shower is easy when installing a frameless shower door. These doors usually operate on a pivot that controls how the door swings in and out of the barn. It is possible to use too much force and dominate the pivot, causing damage to the adjacent wall. You can stop the door from going too far into the shower enclosure and keep it safe with a door stop on the shower door without a frame. You can install a beveled-style door stop with a rubber tip or insert a stronger pivot door stop inside the door hinge.
Steps by Steps Approach to Install a Frameless Shower Door.
- Install the hinges by first placing the glass in its shower enclosure opening, which rests on a series of wedges so that it does not break. Use a pencil or ballpoint pen to mark the holes where the hinge will go and remove the glass door from the opening. Use a drill to drill your holes.
- Using 2-inch screws, drive the hinges into the opening in the wall of your shower enclosure, making sure the screws enter the holes you drilled. Be sure to leave 3/16 of an inch between the glass edge and the edge of the hinge.
- Place the door in the protective shims, making sure there is enough space between the door and the bottom of the shower opening. Mark the locations of the holes with a pen or pencil.
- Carefully remove the door and use a drill to make the holes. Be careful to drill only through the tile and not through any wood or drywall. Use a hammer to install the anchors and slice any part of the anchor that remains outside. Insert the door and screw the screws.
- Use a screwdriver to insert the screws that will attach the handle to the frameless glass shower door. Although it is not necessary to wear gloves or safety glasses during an installation of a frameless glass shower door, you may need a second person to help you move the glass door back and forth.
- Before you will have to measure the width of the opening of the shower. Most glass shower doors are adjusted for the size of the shower opening. However, the typical shower door is at least 30 inches wide, so if the shower opening is wider, a fixed panel on one or both sides would be a wise design choice. Measure the height. The most common height for a shower door is 72 inches. Make the shower door at least as high as the shower head or as tall as the tile, if the tile does not go all the way to the ceiling. Remember that you will be able to see the shower door in any mirrors on the opposite wall.
- Choose a configuration The configuration of the glass panels will depend to a large extent on the size of your shower. Smaller showers may need only a single hinged door, or a bypass style: two doors that slide one over the other. This style is very practical since it usually includes a frame built into the towel on a door. When the doors are in the same plane, it is called online configuration.
Finally, frameless bathroom door comes with its disadvantages. In the case of bathroom doors, the glass must have a substantial thickness to operate without problems outside the frame that keeps thinner panels enclosed in metal stabilization. Think long and hard if your bathroom renovation is being done to put your house on the market. There is a chance that you will never recover the extra money that is poured into your bathroom remodeling project if you choose a more expensive door – especially if you are already over budget when you compare the original estimate to the tab that is still running.