Steam Shower and Frameless Door?? Please Help!!
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suero
15 years agoannkathryn
15 years agoRelated Discussions
Frameless glass in steam shower?
Comments (1)is the tile already installed? If not , you can leave channels/rabets/dado for the glass to sit into. You can also just have a very close fit and it probably won't be too bad. Steam is dense so it's not going to rush out of a small crack at the joints, it will escape so it depends on the rest of your design as to whether you can work with this. The weather stripping looks horrible and kinda defeats the purpose of frameless IMHO. Glass guys offer standard advice: frameless and steam showers aren't good company. It can be done, but you really need to design and refine all the details from the outset. Sounds like maybe you waited too long to involve the glass people or the steam generator was an addition....See MoreHeight of your frameless shower door please?
Comments (12)We placed the glass at about the height that the shower head comes out of the wall (which is high as we are super tall folks). Our glass will be 80" above our 6" high curb. When the glass guy came to look (he came when I wasn't there, just with DH- that was worrisome!) he was looking at the top of the door trim, then the top of the recessed cabinets as possible guides- but when DH pointed out dutifully where I wanted it, and why, and where the deco trim was, and the grout lines... he said, Oh, yeah, that works too. But I thought those were all good ideas- it never even occurred to me to match my door trim to my medicine cabinet heights.... like I said, we're tall, the mirrors needed to be high so we could finally see our whole heads without bending our knees ;-)...See MoreFrameless shower door help!
Comments (7)Have you talked with the glass installers? It seems that would be a good place to start. Also, the glass company I'm working with gave me a catalog to look at handles. Other parts of the catalog have all sorts of interesting pieces that are meant to be used in interesting scenarios like yours. There was a 90degree Polycarbonate Strike Jamb pieces which says it's 'designed to seal between the door and the fixed panel on a 90degree enclosure. Attach to the fixed panel on the strike side." My point is that I bet they have seen this situation before and can give you some options. I think you could do a thick piece between the tub and shower that extends a few inches beyond the tub. Then hinge the door to that piece. Then have a fixed piece of glass on the short side. The door and the short side close at a 90degree angle. But that's just an idea. I'm not a professional, nor have I actually done my own shower yet....See MorePlease help with frameless shower door details
Comments (19)I wish I'd known - the contractor said that the shower door people couldn't come out and measure until after the tiling was done, so I have put off these decisions (so busy with so many others). Now I have no idea where the studs are. The location of the glass will be right next to the door into the room, and I'm sure there's framing around it, but I don't know how wide it is. The shower glass will be less than 4" from the door opening. I wish I'd looked at this when everything was open. I'm sure the contractor knows, but he's on vacation at the moment. Are the bottom supports the same as the side supports, suero?...See Morebill_vincent
15 years agoThis is one I did for a member here that goes by the name salbwil. I'll give her a shout and see if she can post finished pics of hers with the frameless glass:
mrs517
15 years agoThanks for the feedback.
I talked to the people at Artistcraft and they thought it would be feasible to do a fixed panel on the left side with a 6" high transom that was hinged to the top of the frame. The door would be hinged on the right wall and seal against the fixed panel and transom.
Talked to the local shop and they said they would not do this because of safety liability reasons, even though they were quoting me on a framed enclosure that would have a steam tight seal.
Is this really a good idea? I asked them if there wouldn't be a bigger safety issue with an airtight room. That's when they got snotty. I was hoping to use them since I live in mid-Michigan and would like to steer business locally. In the end, I think we'll do something similar to what annkathryn suggests. I'm not that thrilled dealing with the rude people at the shop, but they seem to be the only game in town.
Beautiful work as usual, Bill.
Here is a kind of crappy photo of our project.
Thanks again, mrs517
bill_vincent
15 years agoOkay. I heard back from salbwil. She sent pics along with the following text:
I too could not convince the installers to do a totally frameless glass , but the header and side pieces are fairly unobtrusive
annkathryn
15 years agomrs517
Your plan sounds almost exactly like what I did (minus the 2nd glass wall). The door hinges are on the right wall. There's a fixed panel above the door, not a transom. My GC advised against a transom and I'm glad we didn't put one in, as there's been no problem with the steam clearing out right away.
Sorry your local people aren't customer-oriented. I got bids on the glass from 2 local dealers and had no problem at all with my layout.
mrs517
15 years agopaddykk
3 years agoannkathryn
3 years agoI'm sorry for the delay, I thought I'd responded. I no longer own the home but the ceiling hight was probably about 9'.
I put a steam shower in my current home. Difficult to take photos of the entire door, but you can get the idea. The door is probably 2.5' wide, with fixed panels on either side.
kmtorgerson
3 years ago
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