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Frameless shower door bottom seal

last year

Is there a shower door sweep /seal that is one sided & which attaches or sticks to the inside edge of the door only? Or, has anyone ever just not installed the standard two sided slide onto the door because the threshold is wide enough to keep most water from dripping to floor outside shower? I’ve searched but cannot find anything but the standard seal & no advice on leaving it off.

Our 41” x 62” shower has a 3.5” wide threshold & the door, when closed, sits in center of it. We took the old sweep off to clean / replace it which got me thinking about how much easier it would be to squeege & clean door without it & glass looks nicer without it. Also one less edge to gunk up. We've each showered with no seal on the door to try it. Results after my shower, no water on outside of threshold; after DH showered, a few drips mostly caused by not pulling door inward when cleaning but also maybe because he's a larger mass for water to splash against. The floor outside the shower is ceramic tile, we do use a bathmat & are consistent with wiping down shower after use. It just seems like a streamlined door seal would be out there - just a single piece to adhere to door glass with an angled extending piece to direct water into shower floor.

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Fori
last year
Well, if you don't need it, you don't need it!

I'd keep not using it, but pay really close attention to where leaks might occur. And if someone else uses the shower, really watch it because they might bounce water around differently than you and your DH.

Strategically placed paper towels can help confirm it's not leaking.
KW PNW Z8 thanked Fori
KW PNW Z8
Original Author
last year
@Fori Thanks for your opinion! Still haven’t put the door sweep on & still managing to get the drips inside the shower. It is only the two of us using this shower & we’re both pretty diligent about wiping things down after using shower. I just had wondered if it’s so odd not to install a door sweep because absolutely everything I found about shower glass door installs has putting a sweep on to prevent water from getting out as the last step.
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I don't see anything in either code that prohibits it. P2705.1 of the IECC Residential code (2015) doesn't appear to mention it at all, and the UPC 412 (from 2018 at least) is about Urinals (whether or not a shower constitutes a urinal if you pee in the shower is out of scope of the UPC). :) UPC 408.9 mentions it this way: "Control valves and shower heads should be mounted on the sidewall of shower compartments or otherwise arranged so that the water does not discharge at the entrance of the compartment so that so that the bather can adjust the valves before stepping into the shower spray" So nothing to do specifically with the thing pointed at the door, moreso can you turn on the water without being sprayed by it, which is a good idea anyway since that first blast is likely to be quite cold.
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