Frameless Sliding Glass Shower Doors -- Any Well Engineered Ones?
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PROCabot & Rowe
9 years agoThere are some very well made bypass style hardware assemblies available which are a pleasure to look at as well as function flawlessly. You can see one in the picture below of one of our shower installations.
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Comments (10)Enduring- thanks for responding. I had seen your shower- it turned out just beautiful. I wasn't sure if in your research you'd explored a sliding glass door or not. To answer your questions. One end of the shower is on an exterior brick wall. The other is flanked by a custom linen closet surrounded by tile with the edges grouted. It's not coming out. If I had no other choice but to do doors, I'm pretty sure I'd have to remove tile on one or both ends and add the blocking- not something I'd like to do if I can avoid it. Likely I'd just have one door and a fixed panel on the other- I'm pretty sure the toilet clearance wouldn't let me do two doors like you have. Though I see your point about having a fixed panel- I can't drill into the shower pan so that wouldn't work either. Hopefully some of the glass guys can give me their opinion about using epoxy to secure clips on the bottom. Thanks again for your help- much appreciated. Lisa...See MoreSliding frameless shower door selection questions?
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millworkman
8 years ago- PRO
Cabot & Rowe
8 years ago 
mark_g
8 years ago
PROBy Any Design Ltd.
8 years ago"...Are there any hi-quality makers of frameless shower sliders?..."
I thinks Fleurco is the Best in Class Winner here. Their hardware works beautifully.
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These doors can be ordered as kits with the glass or you can order just the hardware by itself. Make sure you shy away from a fully topical waterproofed shower pan with you barrier free build since you will need to secure a floor clip.
I would do a recessed shower floor and take an approach like this for the barrier free.
The dark blue section of the shower is under flood test and later had 2" of Laticrete 3701 mortar bed installed to bring the floor even with the outside of the shower. The light blue material is again NobleSeal CIS and the entire room is a wetroom
After the floor test was done 2 capillary breaks where installed. One at the entry to the bathroom and one across the shower entry.
Good Luck.mark_g
8 years agomillworkman
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By Any Design Ltd.
8 years agolast modified: 8 years ago - PRO
Cabot & Rowe
8 years agoThe shower picture I posted was also a curbless design. The floor outside the shower door slopes under the moving door into the shower. The door doesn't bump the wall as there is a rubber stop set to your desired position . It stops the rollers not the door, and is highly effective.
The tiles on the walls are glass too. There have not been any problems with the glass door and the glass tiles. The leading edge of the glass door can have a clear plastic solid bumper the run the entire edge.
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mark_g
8 years ago
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