Installing Shower Door In Fiberglass Shower

Attach the seal strip to the bottom of the door and cut it to the required length.

Installing shower door in fiberglass shower.

How to install a door on a fiberglass shower. Put on your safety glasses. Screw in the other side of the door frame image 3. Put the finishing touch on your shower door installation.

For the frame you ll need to install tracks at the bottom sides and top of your shower opening using sealant and screws. Prepare the doors by installing roller and if applicable handle towel bar hardware. On the side of the shower opening that will support the door hold a jamb piece against the wall so that its lower end fits into the base track. Attach the door handles and any towel bars.

Place the rollers on the top frame flange of both door panels and secure them with lock washers and machine screws. Fiberglass gelcoat is short for gel coat fiberglass reinforced polyester more popularly known as fiberglass. Secure the sides of the door. Screw one side of the door frame into place on one side of the shower doorway image 1 and then dry fit the other side of the frame image 2 then the top of the frame into place.

Hanging the door panels. Place end caps on the tops of the wall channels. If you have separate pieces spread construction adhesive on the bottom of the pan and set it in place. Stick a pencil through the jamb s screw holes to mark the wall.

Place the door track in the middle of the bottom door frame of the shower. Place the shower enclosure in place in your bathroom. Installing the door panels is easiest from outside the shower. Acrylic shower walls that install by gluing panels to drywall are not an appropriate substrate on which to install any shower door.

Measure the base of the shower doorway so that you can determine the length for the bottom shower door track. Even if the insert is installed on top of hardiebacker concrete anchors will give you the support you need for hanging a frameless door of a reasonable size and thickness. Drive screws through the pre drilled. There are some who would suggest that you should never install a frameless door in a fiberglass shower insert but i have done this in the past with good results.

Place the glass clamp sweep into place on the door s bottom edge and secure it at the door clamp.