Structural Requirements For Shower Glass Door

If your neo angle shower enclosure includes a knee wall or wall make sure that the shower door meets the structure at a 90 degree angle to accommodate the requirements of the hinges.

Structural requirements for shower glass door.

The top of a knee wall will be made of glass. These locations include tub and shower enclosures door sidelites large lites of glass and glazing near stairs ramps and pools. This is not a restriction when glass meets glass at the 135 degree angle. To maximize water management locate your shower head so it does not spray directly onto the door.

Utility meets luxury with the nautis gs completely frameless hinged swinging shower door. Depending on your shower door configuration will it be attached to a wall or another glass panel we may recommend reducing the glass thickness and thus the weight of the shower door. The strongest glass we offer for frameless showers is 1 2 inch architectural glass. The criteria for these two categories of ansi z97 1 are similar to cpsc 16 cfr 1201 for these applications but ansi z97 1 was updated in 2004 while cpsc 16 cfr 1201 was last updated in 1977.

We recommend door widths from 28 to 36 wide for single doors and double doors where wider access desired. It is this arrangement that causes the glasses to form an inline design. Most inline shower doors consist of a glass door panel which is usually connected to one or multiple glass panels at 180º. The other frameless shower option is 3 8 inch thick glass.

Tempered glass must be used for all glass adjacent to stairs. Inline glass shower door. An inline shower door may be a single swinging door connected to a complete glass panel or full panels on either side of the door. In other words the swinging shower door cannot be notched to accommodate the knee wall.

If your shower includes a knee wall it is better to include in line panel in your design. Available in a multitude of dimensions from 36 to 76 in width the nautis gs consists of a fixed glass panel with a built in two tier shelf storage system and a hinged swinging glass door panel.