I say use Showerguard as this is the only one made and used by the glass maufacturer and carries a lifetime warranty. It never needs to be reapplied. Just my .02........................

I have showerguard, works well after 5 years,but I dry the glass off after a shower.

We use Invisible Shield given to us by the glass installer which we applied ourselves. We have a well and must squeegee. I also purchased online their glass cleaner and water spot remover which I like. We reapply the Invisible Shield periodically and I clean it frequently with the glass cleaner which seems to have a repelling affect. I wouldn’t call it low maintenance but it works well.

We had our new glass installed with Showerguard. it's not a treatment - the glass is actually made with the product in it. We didn't buy the expensive "clearer" glass, but i have to say our glass doesnt look noticiably green. We've been using the shower twice a day for more than two months and we havent cleaned the glass yet. We do have a cute Oxo squeegee and the last person in does a quick 30 second swipe of the glass.

Thanks everyone!

To the showerguard folks, does anyone not dry it or squeegee? I know that if I go with showerguard and it spots, I can't add anything like Rain X or Invisible Shield, so I am stuck...

Any reports of the showerguard glass looking greenish? karrilouwho, your glass looks great! Not green at all. I'm starting to get the impression that my glass guy doesn't want to sell me the showerguard :)

Btw, I'm a bit of a germaphobe about my bathroom/showering ritual, so touching a squeegee after my shower is not going to happen and will gladly pay 1k-2k (or much more really) to not do so for the next 15 or so years. Sadly, I am always the last to shower as hubby is an early bird.

Well glass by its nature reads green to me anyway but I really think the glass door will get etched sooner or later if the water is not removed at least some of the time. This is not the first time this subject has come up on Houzz, plenty of comments in past posts, check it out.

On the advice of people on this forum and reviews on the web, I went with Showerguard in my remodel.

It doesn't read green to me at all and I even have green tiles in the bathroom :-).

When I had read about the various options, Showerguard actually impregnates the glass rather than coats it so it stops the spotting and etching in a different manner. It Is also warrantied for significantly longer than the products which are applied after manufacture as a coating/sealer.

Good questions. I need to make this decision soon also!

Regular Glass is greenish tint by nature. Showerguard does not have any tint nor giive off a green appearance.

Re: the greenish colour - I hate the colour green and was pretty worried about it. However, I haven't noticed an overly green tint on our newly installed Showerguard glass even though there's white subway tile everywhere.

When we had the glass guy in to measure, my husband mentioned that he wanted 1/2" glass because he didn't want a cheap feeling door. The guy looked at him blankly and said, sir, the 3/8" door will weight 80 pounds....it's plenty big enough. Don't waste your money. Then I mentioned that I wanted the upgraded glass (because I'd read all the threads on here about green glass and I didn't want green glass), and I got another blank look and a "don't waste your money". The Showerguard was a given...he was surprised we even knew what it was:) In the end, we went with his advice and couldn't be happier. My advice: Don't overthink it. lol

Also, if you do go with the Showerguard, like someone mentioned on the other thread, don't use bar soap. That's what creates soap scum. And if you don't squeegee, it's not the end of the world. Use some ammonia free Windex. The Showerguard people give you a whole list of approved products with the warranty information.

A squeegee every shower and a good cleaning once a week mine look great even with the 2 international students using one.

Thanks everyone! I think I am convinced to go with the showerguard ultra. It is actually the same price as the starphire+ store applied Invisible Shield.

We use Dove Soap which isn't real "soap", so along with our soft water we shouldn't have too much trouble just cleaning on the weekends. It doesn't need to look perfect on Friday as long as it cleans easy on Saturday. Our last shower's regular glass just wouldn't come clean no matter what we did.

So, Robin, how did your project go and do you like your selection? Also, Karrilou, is your shower door 3/8" and the rest 1/2"? And, are you still happy with the Showerguard?

I had Showerguard frameless glass installed in my master bathroom and have been using the shower for approximately five months.

I neither squeegee or wipe down the shower after I use. I use my hand held shower to rinse off the shower to get rid of any splotches of shampoo, conditioner or cleanser and that's about it. I do use liquid soap (always have as a preference).

My water is hard.

I have no drops or streaks on the glass so I think the Showerguard does a great job of protecting from any kind streaking or build up.

sunfeather, I went with the showerguard. I am not very impressed with it. I hoped I would just be able to clean it every 2 weeks with windex and paper towels, but it still has a lot of water spots and streaks. According to our water company, our water is soft. I have a lot of streaks no matter how I clean it.

Wish we had gotten at least something applied to our shower enclosure. Long story but glass order mixup we were happy to just get a replacement done without extra charges and forgot to get any sort of coating. Now, squeeging a 7.75x3.5x7 of glass each day sucks! :)

@Robin - I'm surprised by the problems you are having with Showerguard. My shower door and glass wall are virtually maintenance free - there isn't any way I would be squeegeeing after every shower.

Helen, do you have any other cleaning regiment other than spraying it down with plain water? Also how big is your shower? Ours is on the narrow side, so I wonder if that matters.

Spraying it down gets a lot of water onto my floor, so I really hadn't been doing anything. I also haven't been cleaning it very often or at all the first month or two... maybe I just need to try some vinegar or something a bit stronger than windex to get the build up off since I neglected it for a while.

@Robin. My shower is fairly narrow since it replaced a tub shower combo and it follows the footprints of the original fairly small apartment sized tub. I live in a high rise condo so my master bath isn’t palatial.

I don’t do anything other than spray with the hand held as the last thing I do before turning off water to make sure there aren’t any blotches of shampoo or condItinerary but that’s it. I know my slothful housekeeping wouldn’t squeegee after every shower.

I have no water leakage at all when I spray. I am not an expert but this doesn’t seem to be normal. I do have a curb so theoretically any moisture would be on the curb and not the floor but I didn’t notice any wet on the curb and the bathroom floor is dry when I step out so I think the glass is pretty well sealed in terms of containing water.

i read that there is supposed to be a Showerguard stamp on the glass because the glass itself is impregnated mid it’s not a sealant apples by the fabricator. Have you checked to make sure it’s actually Showerguard.

Also before you use specific coeaning stuff, check the care manual because I think you are supposed to avoid certain stuff. When I moved back in, I restocked with cleaning elements that couldn’t harm any of my surfaces so my toilet bowl cleaner is safe for marble surfaces as is my window cleaner. I also got a silicone toilet brush because the Toto surface is supposed to repel gook but you aren’t supposed to use anything potentially abrasive on it

Doesn't using some products affect the sealant on the shower floor tile?

@sunfeather - Not sure who you are asking regarding cleaning products but I specifically chose cleaning products based on their being safe for all my surfaces. I have marble so I don't use any cleaners - toilet bowl cleaner; glass cleaner or obviously counter cleaner that would damage any marble or other surfaces. I use a steam cleaner periodically on my marble bathroom floors so I don't use any other chemical cleaner on them. I haven't cleaned my shower floor - I am not sure how often one is even supposed to clean a shower floor as it seems more or less self cleaning but I imagine I would use a steam cleaner on that floor.

Our shower enclosure is four years old, has the showerguard application, I wipe it down after every shower and it looks like day one.

Wow Helen... it is weird that you never have to clean your floor. I get pink gunk on my floor around the edges if I don't. I don't have any sealer on my floor or anything to worry about. I use lysol or dish soap on the gunk, but a good brush is most effective. I also have marble on my walls, but nothing seems to etch it. I've tried with a sample tile and for some reason I can't do anything to it, so I'm not worried about it.

I'm sure if I wiped the shower down every day it would still look perfect, but I'm not willing to do anything to it more than once a week or two.

@Robin - Are you saying your shower floor gets pink gunk around it if you don't clean often?

I'm really not an expert at all but it sounds as though there might be issues in terms of water. My shower floor is pretty sloped (again it's not a huge shower because the footprint follows the original tub) but the shower floor gets dry pretty quickly.

I do have a good fan which monitors humidity and I can hear it running for awhile after I shower so I suspect that helps dry up any residual moisture in the bathroom - including the shower floor.

My shower was probably inspected at least three times while it was being built - it had to pass a 24 hour flood test and the plumbing inspectors from the City were really rigorous in terms of the whole process. I know they also had to approve the slope of the shower floor.

I wasn't around when it was inspected while it was being built - although I dropped in at various stages to photograph all of the stages. However, I was back in the home during the final inspection and the inspector spent about 15 minutes inspecting the shower before giving the final approval - and that was after it had been inspected several times during construction.

I know it's a year past this post. Curious, @Robin Morris, what did you choose? My last home had Showerguard on the glass, and we didn't squeegee at all and it was super easy to clean, never or barely showed spots. Now, I'm at a new home, but my contractor's supplier doesn't offer Showerguard. So what glass treatment do you recommend? Their product is applied it after it's tempered. Showerguard is integrated into the glass BEFORE it's tempered at 600 degrees, so it never needs reapplication in its lifetime.

I also don't understand why you are letting your contractor prevent you from getting Showerguard. The glass supplier my GC was using originally wanted to use something else but when I insisted on Showerguard, he was able to provide it. If he hadn't, I would have insisted on using a different supplier. It's not as if a shower door supplier is unique.

Showerguard will be more expensive but it was completely worth it for me to pay the uncharge.

@helen Good for u for sticking to your guns on what u want. I’m currently waiting for the supplier to reply to my GC about Showerguard. We’ll see what happens.

I know they are different, but how much more is Showerguard than Diamon Fusion? I have Showerguard now, and maybe because my bathroom is really bright with a 5x5 window, unless I squeegee every time, water will leave marks. I’m wondering with my new house whether to spend the money on Showerguard again or try something else. New bathroom won’t have as much natural light, so maybe I won’t notice the watermarks.

Cost difference should be about $5-7 a sq ft cheaper for the Diamon Fusion.

Thanks!

@Glee - During my remodel, I used to hum that old Kenny Rogers song - The Gambler - e.g. know when to hold 'em; know when to fold 'em. For some stuff I was flexible - generally when it was something relating to to construction or Code :-) and I just let the normal snafus of construction/remodel go back without throwing hissy fits and just put them in my "favor back" basket but for other stuff when there was no rational reason - especially since I was willing to pay for the differential - I held my ground. Also held out for some aesthetic stuff like making my cabinet maker go back a few times until the stain color was exactly right :-).