Glass Shower Door
How to Replace a Glass Shower Door | Magic Glass
There is nothing more aesthetically pleasing in a bathroom than having a glass shower door that adds that feeling of space and when you’re existing one is broken or you just want a different design there are a few things that need to be considered when you are going to replace a glass shower door. The styles and variety of shower doors available is huge, so take some time to browse around before deciding on that final one. There is nothing worse than 2 weeks after you have finished installing your new shower door you see one and think, “That looks perfect, I wish I had found this one”.
Although without major renovations you can’t change the design of your shower, most being a bathtub shower, alcove stand-alone shower or a corner stand-alone shower, you can change other features that you may not be aware of.
Frame Design
- Framed: Framed shower doors have framing all around the glass
- Frameless: Frameless doors are supported by unobtrusive clamps built into the wall or floor.
- Semi Frameless: Semi frameless doors have one or two supporting frames.
Material
- uPVC
- Aluminium
- Stainless Steel
- Types of Doors
- Sliding Doors
- Pivot Doors
- Glass
- Clear
- Frosted
- Opaque
- Patterned
As you can see the combinations using the above examples give you so many great options when choosing a new door for your shower. Deciding on what shower door you want is probably going to be your most time consuming part of the project. The actual replacing of the shower door will not take much time but there are two important things to remember before you go ahead with this.
1. Measurements
Making sure that you buy a door that fits properly is critical. There is no room for error at all. If the shower door is even 2mm too big it isn’t going to fit, no matter how much you try. If the door is 2mm too small, depending on the design of your shower, you will have water leaking into the rest of your bathroom.
2. Safety
Safety is extremely important when you are dealing with glass in the bathroom. The mixture of soap and water makes the floor very slippery and accidents do happen. We have all slipped at one time or another in the shower. Building codes and government regulations are very strict when it comes to these types of features in the bathroom and if you install the wrong standard of glass or the workmanship is substandard it could land you in very hot water, excuse the pun.
We all have our DIY projects that we love doing but replacing a glass shower doors shouldn’t be one of them due to the health and safety issues tied in with the legal ramifications.
Magic Glass not only offer a 24/7 service in case of an emergency but have over 20 years’ experience in the industry. Give them a call and let them worry about legal matters and making sure that everything is installed to health and safety standards so you can just enjoy that refreshing shower at the end of the day.