HInged door with fixed panel I assume? How tall? Local glass shop? What type of hardware? Any surface protectant? But doesn't sound outside of the normal range. I would never use an off the shelf box store shower door setuo myself.

My 60 inch panel and door 1/2 door with hardware and instalation was $2300 by a glass shops in Connecticut, so your quote seems low to me.

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Yes, hinged door and fixed panel. Height is approx 78". Is there a best practice that has it aligned with the shower head, for example? It's basically about 6" from the ceiling, aligned with the bathroom door. Of course they can do whatever I want, but I don't know which way is better than another.

I'm going simple/classic/chrome.

I'm guessing it's a local glass shop. I am not sure about surface protectant (assume not included) - something I should ask for?

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I paid about $3,800 for about 67" with door and a fixed panel (one on a pony wall, so 1/2 height) on each side. Boston suburb. Frameless. Installation included. Paid about $300 extra IIRC for Starphire (sp) glass. HTH.

Our 3/8" frameless with two panels and door came out to be $1800 so I think your estimate is good. There actually is a lot of labor involved. They need to come out and do precise measurements. Walls are never completely square. Also takes some skill to line everything up at installation.

Surface protectant is not included in the price.

After researching on this forum and elsewhere, I opted for Showerguard in my master bath. It is actually impregnated into the glass and is not a surface substance.

So far it is working great as I have no splotches or streaks - I just hose it down when I finish showering to get off any blobs of soap or shampoo. I do use liquid body soap which is supposed to be better at avoiding crap buildup but I have hard water. I knew I was not going to squeegee every time the shower was used so I took precautions.

I did not use any kind of protection on the shower in the guest bath as that shower is never used. Prior to the remodel, it had frosted glass and I used it as an additional storage closet for Costco size packages of toilet paper and paper towels along with anything else I could reasonably fit in there :-). It now has clear frameless glass enclosure and beautiful tile work so it is no longer operating as a storage facility :-).

If you DIY, drilled and tempered glass from a fabricator is about $200 for your size shower. I did that for two showers (frameless). Measured, drew plan (outline, hole locations). CRL glass brackets were another few $ (<$100). Risk was worth it to me. Also fairly easy to install.

Way cheap.

Reasonable price. There are different grades of glass. Given that this is in the basement, the basic glass will be fine. It may darken with age.

Thanks to all for the additional replies! I asked this guy about protected glass and he mentioned the ShowerGuard and gave me the quote for that.

$1540 for 3/8’ and $1770 for 1/2’”

Worth it or no, given it‘s the basement and not used often?

[FYI I am getting another quote.... expecting Monday. He also mentioned the Starfire option for whiter glass.... ]

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I wish people who post 'always' say where they are on here. It can vary dramatically. The NE are union and then you have CA(which might as well be another country)