We have showerguard and it's definitely staying clear, but I don't have any other glass in the shower to compare it to. We just squeegee it off and it's fine. The only comparison I can make is to the glass in the other shower, which is much harder to keep clean--in fact, now that I think about it, it seems to attract shampoo or something because it's always getting a film on it.

But I don't have a control-type piece of glass in the same shower with the showerguard to be able to say for sure. If you have the $, it might be worth getting the showerguard. It won't hurt, that's for sure, and if you have a DH who is neatness challenged, it might help.

Ohy, and vs. starphire/crystal clear glass--the new showerguard is all starphire, so you get that added bonus thrown in. It's nice and completely clear. I don't know what diamond fusion glass is.

Pros for starphire? well you spend thousands on the tiled shower and then put regular glass on it. That glass adds a green filter on that tile that you spent months researching and thousands buying.
Starphire shows the tile in its true color. once you live with starphire, regular glass will give you the creeps :)

Starphire shows the tile in its true color. once you live with starphire, regular glass will give you the creeps :)

I disagree :-) I like the greenish cast of "regular" glass and the starfire stuff in seems comparatively uninteresting and pointless to me. To me, that green cast says calm, relax, water, beach, spa, whatever. In Massachusetts where I am, the Starphire glass is the same price (or barely different) than the regular green glass and I went out of my way to specify that they put in the regular stuff. I picked a thicker glass at that - 3/4" thick walls - and I can just about see that green. I've got plenty of the tile in my bath - the glass wall presents an additional bit of interest in that room as you look around the room from tile-no-glass to tile-behind-glass.

I like it. So, if you were to ask me, the pro for starfire vs. not is that you have a choice. I did my two bathroom remodels 3 and 5 years ago and during one of them I seem to remember that diamond fusion option present itself as a surface coating to help keeping it clean(er) and I think that is what I picked for the first bathroom. That is an all-glass shower (well, all 4 walls) and I wipe it down with a miracle cloth after every shower. I have no idea if the diamond fusion is doing any good or not because I've always Miracle Cloth'd that shower (it is "my" shower) so I don't know how to evaluate it. That shower certainly does stay very very clean - I've only Windexed it once a year because my wiping does an excellent job keeping that glass clean. The other shower I don't believe is anything but the 3/4" regular glass, it is my husband's shower and he just squeegees the shower. That one needs the Windex treatment I've noticed more often than does mine, but frankly, I suspect the squeegeeing (which I've never found very effective) vs. my miracle cloth wiping. But I just don't know.