3/8" or 1/2" thick glass on frameless steam shower enclosure?
kaysd
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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 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 glass shower thickness--what do you have?
Comments (5)We have a 3 1/2 ft. by 7 ft. fixed frameless glass panel for the shower. Architect specified 1/2", but glass contractor installed 3/8" which was noticeably flimsy and moved if you grabbed edge to get in shower. Contractor had to pay to replace with 1/2" (since that was the quote price) and we were so much happier with the thicker glass. Maybe because our installation was only fixed on two sides, it made a huge difference....See MoreNeed help w/ frameless glass shower enclosure
Comments (1)I have a framless shower door with steam. I had a chanel carved into the stone frame around the door. I bet you won't pass inspection. This doesn't sound kosher. Did you discuss ahead of time how this was to be done? What material is around the glass? What's to keep the glass from moving if someone leans on it, silicone? I'll bet the contractor tries to tell you that it just fine. If you find out if it's against building codes, then you could have an inteligent argument with him. Ill tell you some of the problems that I had with my installation. The stone I used is "Rosa Verona". It's a particularly soft stone. The company that installled the stone said that it broke during delvery 2 times before they were able to install it. It finally worked out ok. I went with a glass company in the area that is the oldest and has the highest prices in the area. They came to measure when I had the three sides up (the groved stone). The tile setter purposly left the top, untiled. They inisted that all sides be done before they measure. My tile setter scrached his head, but they were very experienced and wouldn't be questioned. When they came back after the top was tiled, they realized that they had no way of getting the glass in. I finaly had to have someone carve out the tile on the top in order to insert the glass. It would have been SO much easier to just tile up to the glass on the top after it was slipped into the groves on the sides....See Moremotherof3inct
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