Structural Requirements For Shower Glass Door

Utility meets luxury with the nautis gs completely frameless hinged swinging shower door.

Structural requirements for shower glass door.

If your shower includes a knee wall it is better to include in line panel in your design. The strongest glass we offer for frameless showers is 1 2 inch architectural glass. This is not a restriction when glass meets glass at the 135 degree angle. The other frameless shower option is 3 8 inch thick glass.

We recommend door widths from 28 to 36 wide for single doors and double doors where wider access desired. The top of a knee wall will be made of glass. The irc states that stair rails must be made from safety glass as well as structural baluster panels and nonstructural infill panels. These locations include tub and shower enclosures door sidelites large lites of glass and glazing near stairs ramps and pools.

That way you can modify the fixed panel to accommodate the knee wall instead of trying to modify the door. The top of your shower glass should be at least as high as the shower head. 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. 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.

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. In other words the swinging shower door cannot be notched to accommodate the knee wall. 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. It is this arrangement that causes the glasses to form an inline design.

To maximize water management locate your shower head so it does not spray directly onto the door. Most inline shower doors consist of a glass door panel which is usually connected to one or multiple glass panels at 180º.