Gap In Frameless Shower Door

If you find frameless shower door leaks at both the sides of the glass then you will have to seal the gap between the door and the adjacent glass wall.

Gap in frameless shower door.

The standard tolerance for frameless shower glass is plus or minus 1 8. The industry standard is 1 16 but i think even that is pushing it. To my dismay there s a 1 2 inch space between the glass door and the adjoining glass attached to the wall as well as at the bottom of the door itself. I think it is reasonable to reject the 1 4 difference in size of the gap between the door and fixed panel.

Gap spacing in frameless shower doors 09 february 2015. I just had seamless shower doors installed today in my brand new bathroom. We use 1 4 at the hinge side and 3 16 at the strike side. The glass was custom measured but when the door was installed the gap between the door and the adjacent glass isn t uniform.

It is 1 8 at the top and 3 8 at the bottom. I design frameless showers every day and install the complicated ones. Hold the door closed with the handle as your assistant installs wooden shims at the underside the door and the top of the shower dam. Frameless showers are not aquariums i don t mean to be facetious but consumers have somehow come to believe that no water will escape a frameless shower.

Solutions for fixing the leaks on either side of the frameless shower door. The edge seal along that edge is probably there to hide the condition you are describing. Lift up on the handle while your assistant fits the shims as. Unlike a framed shower unit the door in a frameless shower cannot be sealed shut and therefore small amounts of water can escape.

This is a new construction not an existing bathroom. Hinge side gap is 5 at the top 25 in the middle and 25 at the bottom. This is the industry standard. To cover up the space they installed a transparent flap that s supposed to close the gap.

The gap from glass to glass where the strike side of the door meets the fixed panel at the vertical gap is normally 3 16. The gap you are showing is 3 8 that s about 1 8 to 3 16 above the accepted norm. Invest in a shower door side seal to solve the leakage issue from the sides.