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Wide shower doors

user-317196 | Posted in General Discussion on January 7, 2003 08:19am

I need a source for a wide shower door, 60 – 72″ high and 60″ wide.  I am replacing a 5′ tub with a custom tile shower and the customer wants a glass door enclosure.

Thanks!

 

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  1. andybuildz | Jan 07, 2003 08:30am | #1

    Mike

           You need to go local for that. "Any" local supplier will carry that. Why are you having trouble finding this product? Just open up your yellow pages and let your fingers do the walking. Most suppiers in the Yellow Pages are expensive.        

           Your best source to find a supplier in ....uh...say, an industrial park area is to ask plumbers. Thats how I found my industrial park supplier. Less then half the cost of HD or the fancy shmancy shower door stores and just as good a quality enclosure. I paid about $400 for a five foot front on my shower with a side panel (on one side) about five foot by four feet. Most people were asking over a grand in the fancy shmancy store for the equivilent.

    Be thrifty and wise

                        Namaste

                                   Andy

    "Attachment is the strongest block to realization"
    http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

    1. user-317196 | Jan 07, 2003 08:50am | #2

      Andy

      Thanks for the response.  My local doesn't have anything wider than 36" and says he doesn't have an order source for anything wider.  Do you remember who make your 5' door. Most all have a website.

      1. joeh | Jan 07, 2003 06:45pm | #3

        Mike, your "Local" is a local lazy "They don't make those" type. You are going to do some research. Where are you? Where is the nearest "big" city?

        Glass is glass. You need glass with whatever holes to mount your hardware & then it's tempered. The shower door guy here (in an industrial complex) takes the measurements and has the glass made in Los Angeles by a glass shop that can then temper it.  Tempering glass is not what the local guy does, and selling shower doors is not what the glass guy in LA does.

        You need to get in touch with someone else if your local guy isn't interested.  Joe H

  2. Scooter1 | Jan 07, 2003 09:46pm | #4

    See a Glass Dealer. They are the ones that usually do shower doors and enclosures. I have seen enclosures that are litterally 10 feet wide, done entirely in glass.

    The good stuff, half inch polished glass, is about $80-100 a square foot installed. You can go as thin as three eights to save some dough. Anything beyond that will have to have an aluminum frame around it.

    Regards,

    Boris

    "Sir, I may be drunk, but you're crazy, and I'll be sober tomorrow" -- WC Fields, "Its a Gift" 1927

  3. Piffin | Jan 08, 2003 06:38am | #5

    Glass shop is it.

    .

    Excellence is its own reward!

    1. edwardh1 | Jan 08, 2003 04:25pm | #6

      agree.

      look for a glass shop in "bidness" for years. but not one with a huge yellow pages ad.

  4. andybuildz | Jan 08, 2003 05:24pm | #7

    Mike

        I think glass shops are extremly expensive for shower doors from my experiances. If you have industrial park areas with different factories like we do here on L.I then try and find a shower door company like I did through my plumbers. The make the entire unit including cutting their own glass. They were less then half the price of the box stores and glass stores for custom made sizes.

    a

    "Attachment is the strongest block to realization"
    http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

    1. Piffin | Jan 09, 2003 06:50am | #8

      A lot depends on the quality you are looking for too. My glass guy came out and priced a shower door for folks showing them pictures and explaining the brochures and what they meant. He could make them anything they wanted from his stock options. for a four foot wide walk in shower he had options from $250 up to $2500 for them to pick from, plus accccessories.

      Maybe your area has the glass shops in boutiques, my glass guy is in an industrial park. Adress doesn't define the job but it might define the price..

      .

      Excellence is its own reward!

      Edited 1/8/2003 10:52:15 PM ET by piffin

      1. andybuildz | Jan 10, 2003 04:04am | #11

        Maybe your area has the glass shops in boutiques, my glass guy is in an industrial park. Adress doesn't define the job but it might define the price..

        That's precisely what I said. Look in industrial parks weather its a glass company or a shower door company. ALL the glass stores in residential shopping areas all over Long Island are very expensive for shower doors, which is why I shop for builder merch in the industrial areas. I thought I was clear about that. Boutiques???? Whaaaa?

        a"Attachment is the strongest block to realization"http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM

        1. Piffin | Jan 10, 2003 04:38am | #12

          I guess it was clear if I put both your posts together.

          Fancy schmancy = boutique.

          Excellence is its own reward!

  5. Frankie | Jan 09, 2003 12:37pm | #9

    Maybe I'm taking this too litterally. You guys have shower doors over 3' wide? Yikes! My guy hates installing a door over 30" wide. These are hinged, not sliding, right?

    I agree with Piffin. You get what you pay for - in materials AND in installation. I have one guy whose turn around time is 1 1/2 wks but his margin for error big and the installation is okay at best.

    Then this other guy has a 6 week lead time but the installation is perfection. You can't see the silicone caulk even when you look for it - I know it's there because I see him applying it - and every screw hole is drilled without any chipping of the tiled or stone walls/ curb. If the opening is out of square by more than 1/16" he compensates for it in the glass sizing rather than using the caulk as his fudge factor. Whenever I can, I use him. More $$ but ZERO headaches. Never a complaint. Only warm smiles.

  6. Novy | Jan 09, 2003 07:46pm | #10

    Mike,

     Check out the trackless tub enclosure bottom left.

    http://www.showerdoorcanada.com/products/bathtub2.html

    I installed a chrome finish one in a bath reno last year ( Tile Surround ) for happy customer. $ 420 CDN

    On An Island By The SEA
  7. cortilet | Mar 22, 2003 04:16am | #13

    Mike

    I do custom frameless shower enclosures in the chicagoland area.  I make mine out of 3/8 polished tempered glass.  Look under shower enclosures in your yellow pages.  Yours is an easy one.  Height is usually between 72-78 inches.  Doors are usually not wider than 30 inches.  I make mine completely frameless and charge around $55 a square foot installed.  If you have any questions email me at [email protected] and I'll give you any help you need.

    Jim

    P.S. If I did it correctly, I attached a picture of one like what you want that also has a bench which required a cut-out in the fixed panel.  If not, just email me.



    Edited 3/21/2003 9:31:29 PM ET by jim



    Edited 3/21/2003 9:32:13 PM ET by jim

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