Tile ceiling of a frameless glass shower?
woodbronte
16 years ago
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16 years ago
weedyacres
16 years agoI don't think a tiled ceiling makes a shower feel more closed in that a painted ceiling. You can brighten it up with a light if you want. Here's ours.
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Comments (3)Originally we had thought of going with a single large piece of glass -- floor to ceiling -- but there's no way to get it in the door. 1) good idea about setting in a tile groove--we do have tile on both those surfaces. 2) Thought about the horizontal bar, but am not crazy about how it looks. Designer suggested 3 floor to ceiling slightly overlapping glass panels. Here's how it would look -- approximately: In this case the tile is greenish so we **might** go with regular rather than starphire--but use starphire in our downstairs shower which has blue and orange tile....See MoreFrameless Glass shower or Use Channel? (Steam and normal)
Comments (11)I'm not an expert in transoms or steam shower design, but I'm surprised nobody has yet said why they were invented, get installed, and are used. 1/ Steam machines make steam. More and more of it. Without new steam, the experience of a steam shower can be less and less enjoyable. New steam is needed. It actually puts pressure on the walls, and in 24hour commercial steam showers this is a big thing. But, even at home, where does all the water vapor go? It doesn't all become liquid (condensation) and go into the drain. 2/ :: Plan where it will go, otherwise it will go places you don't want it to go. A transom is a safety valve putting your excess steam into the bathroom, from where the fan exhausts it. 3/ :: Otherwise steam seeps into everything. Wall-ceiling junctions. Light fixtures. Into the attic insulation. Water vapor can penetrate anything, because it has time on its side, and the world's best solvent: H2O molecules. The opposite approach is "If you only use the steam shower for a short time and not often, who cares?" Anyone want to defend that point of view? I think there is no point building something that you "really ought not to let run". Some future user might want long steam showers, or frequent steam showers. Without a transom, you are guaranteeing that your escape route for water vapor will be confused, since it's unplanned, uncoordinated and unwanted, and your result will eventually lead to problems. As far as I know. Anyone reading this thread so far would be well advised to look more into it instead of concluding that transoms are just for fun. Many homeowners don't care much about codes or practices and will allow anyone to build anything for them. After that, it may or may not work as expected, and ultimately the homeowner may or may not be satisfied. This applied to all fields of construction. My writing this out is not to say that anyone here has been intending to do the wrong thing deliberately. Hth...See Moreframeless shower glass install
Comments (10)$$$ detail and NOT retrofittable. This needs to be a new project, planned properly from the beginning. The average 7-10K shower price just jumped a good 3-5 grand for all of the meetings and fussiness in coordinating everyone. If you want more of a luxury space than an average tiled shower, like with slab stone walls, curbless entry, and other Houzz like details, your budget will need to expand exponentially. I've been involved with many bathroom remodels that easily cost more than the 83K price of my first house, adjusted for inflation. There isn't much limit on upper end costs....See MoreGap between frameless shower glass and wall
Comments (1)Not to wide no, and it should be silicone. A hair over 3/8" (which is what a cm is) may be a bit larger than it should be, but it normally would be about 1/4", so not large enough to fight over. I may have asked for or expected clear silicone but.........................See Morewoodbronte
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16 years agopirula
16 years agoI'm mildly claustrophobic and it's hard to feel uncomfortable in a shower that has two solid walls of glass. I suppose if you're using very dark tile, in theory the dark ceiling might "come down" visually, but I still think it would be fine.
We had to tile our ceiling because we have a steam shower. We vaulted the ceiling in the shower as well in order to avoid drops. The tiles are white. This is the second least claustrophobic shower I've ever used (the lease being an outdoor shower in Lombock, Indonesia...under a full moon....surrounded by frangipani and bouganvillea....ahhhhhhhhh
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bill_vincent
16 years agoHere are just a couple that ended up with frameless glass. There's lots more where they came from!!
flseadog
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16 years agoweedyacres
16 years agoI see that your have a small bulkhead over the shower -was that for electrical?
No, it was mostly to avoid having to repair the ceiling damage when we demo'd the linen closet that had been there. It gave us a clean slate for tiling.
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