Count the open sides of your shower. One means a door and a panel. Two means a corner or a neo-angle with the door on the cut. Three means a full walk-in run. That shape drives everything after it, so we settle it standing in your Englewood bathroom with a tape in hand, then cut every panel in our Lodi shop to the opening you actually have.
Look at the pan before you look at the glass. Where the curb stops, where the plumbing wall sits and which way a door can swing without hitting a vanity: those three things narrow the layout down to one or two honest choices. A cut corner wants a neo-angle. A long straight run takes a fixed panel with a door beside it. A deep pan with the head aimed inward can go open, no door at all. We work that out on site, out loud, before anything gets ordered. Nothing is picked off a catalog page.
Templating is the unglamorous part, and it decides whether the door still closes right in five years. We take the finished opening corner to corner and top to bottom, and we check every wall for plumb, because tile gets set straight more often than the wall behind it is. Panels are cut from 3/8 or 1/2 inch tempered safety glass in the Lodi shop, with hinges, clips and a header bar when the span asks for one. Low-iron ultra-clear glass drops the faint green cast if that bothers you. Fabrication usually runs one to two weeks, and most installs take a single visit.
Englewood does not have one kind of house. Up on the East Hill there are estates and Tudor Revival landmarks where a primary bath renovation gets the heavy treatment: 1/2 inch panels, a long walk-in run, hardware picked to match everything else in the room. Head down toward Palisade Avenue and the streets fill with colonials from the early 1900s whose bathrooms were carved out of whatever the floor plan could spare. Both are our work. The difference is not the care, it is the geometry we find when we show up with a tape.
In a century-old in-town colonial nothing is square, and that is not a complaint, it is just the starting condition. Walls lean, floors settle, and a tiled niche or a boxed-in chimney eats into one wall. We measure the opening in front of us rather than the one the plan says should be there, then cut panels that follow it. On the East Hill the problem flips: bigger rooms, longer spans, heavier glass, and a header bar or a brace so a tall panel stays rigid for good. Same shop, same crew, either way.
A look at corner, neo-angle and walk-in glass from bathrooms in Englewood and the towns around it.
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No showroom in Englewood itself. The closest one is our main shop and showroom in Lodi, 80 Industrial Rd, about fourteen minutes west, open Monday through Friday 9 to 5 and Saturday 9 to 4. Enclosure layouts, glass thickness and all fifteen finishes are set up there to compare. Midland Park, 108 Greenwood Ave, is farther northwest and runs by appointment.
Nobody can answer that over the phone honestly. The number moves with the size and count of panels, whether you go 3/8 or 1/2 inch, the layout, the glass type and which hardware finish you land on. We measure at no charge and then put the whole thing in writing, line by line, so you can see what each choice is doing to the total.
Usually quickly. Lodi sits about fourteen minutes west of Englewood, so getting a measure on the calendar is rarely the hard part, whether the address is up on the East Hill or down near Palisade Avenue. From the template, glass is fabricated in one to two weeks and the install is normally one visit. What we cannot start against is unfinished tile.
It is the normal condition in a house from the early 1900s, and it is why we template instead of ordering to a drawing. We measure the real corners, the real plumb and the real height, then cut panels that follow the room. Out-of-square walls change the glass, not the answer. What we do need is tile that is finished and grouted before we template.
Glass and hardware are ours. Tile, the pan, the plumbing and anything structural belong to your contractor, which is the normal split and it works cleanly. Tell us who is running the job and we will set the template date with them, so the enclosure lands right after the tile is done rather than a month behind it.
Yes. That is heavy glass work: half inch panels, longer spans, a header bar where the run calls for one, and hardware finished to match the rest of the room. Weight is exactly why the template has to be exact. We hand measure the opening, fabricate the panels in Lodi, and bring a crew that has been setting glass like that in Bergen County homes for years.
Call the shop or text photos to Jessica, whichever is easier. We will get to your Englewood address, measure the opening at no charge, and walk the layout with you before a single panel is cut.
Call the shop or text photos to Jessica, whichever is easier. We will get to your Englewood address, measure the opening at no charge, and walk the layout with you before a single panel is cut.
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