Frameless shower doors in Wayne hang from one of two places: the wall beside the opening, or the fixed glass panel next to it. Which one we use sets the pivot line, and the pivot line decides how much floor the door sweeps as it opens. We work in 3/8 and 1/2 inch tempered safety glass, template the opening by hand, and pick the hinge to suit the room rather than the other way around. There is no charge for the in-home measure, and the glass is cut and edged at our Lodi shop.
Hinges sit at set heights on a frameless door, and each plate needs a flat face of tile waiting at exactly those heights. That is what we check at the jamb before anything else, because a recessed niche, a decorative band or a return too narrow for the plate can each take the wall out of the running. When the wall qualifies, the hinges fasten through the tile and the pivot line sits tight against it. When it does not, they fasten to the fixed panel, and the pivot moves inboard by the width of the hinge and the gap, which shortens the reach of the door across the aisle in front of it. Neither is the better hinge. One puts the pivot where the wall is, the other where the glass is, and which you get is settled standing at the jamb rather than from a photograph.
The strike side is the one you live with longest. The leading edge of the door meets a jamb or a fixed panel, and between them sits a clear vertical seal that closes the gap without gripping the glass hard enough to mark it. Against a wall that seal is usually a soft fin. Against another panel it is often magnetic, and the two pieces have to be planned to the same line or it will meet at one end and not the other. A magnetic pair also gives the door something to close onto, so it comes to rest with a soft catch instead of bouncing off the glass beside it. Because the hinge choice decides what the door closes against, the two get settled together at the template, standing in your bathroom.
When a primary bath in a mid century split or a hi ranch gets opened up, the tub comes out and a wider shower goes in along the outside wall. What rarely moves in that plan is the vanity, so the room ends up generous in one direction and tight in the other, and the door has to be worked out in what is left. The long direction looks after itself, since glass can run the full length of the new shower. The short direction is the aisle between the curb and the front of the vanity, the strip of floor where you stand to dry off, and every decision about the door has to respect it. We would rather stand in that aisle with you than take a width over the phone.
Sometimes that aisle will not take an arc at all, even with the hinges moved onto the glass. Then the better answer is a door that does not swing. A frameless slider hangs heavy tempered glass from a rail across the top of the opening and rolls it over a fixed panel, so nothing ever moves into the room. Sliding frameless doors are on the list of what we build for Wayne, and in a widened bath they deserve a look before anybody settles for a door that clips the vanity. The trade is plain enough: a rail line runs along the top of the glass, and the way in is never the full opening, because the door parks over the panel beside it. The rail also wants a sound fixing at each end, which the measure checks. Where the room will take either, the written quote can carry both.
Frameless doors from Wayne bathrooms, with a few from Oakland and Franklin Lakes nearby. Each was hung for the room around it: the wall it meets, the floor in front of it, and whatever has to stay clear of it when it opens.
More custom glass in Wayne: sliding & bypass shower doors, semi-frameless shower doors, shower door replacement, custom mirrors, custom glass shower enclosures. See everything on our Wayne, NJ page. Frameless Shower Doors nearby: Paramus, Ridgewood, Hackensack, Fort Lee, Lodi, Midland Park, Englewood, Teaneck, Fair Lawn, Mahwah, Wyckoff, Tenafly, Franklin Lakes, Ramsey, Glen Rock, Montclair, Carlstadt, Paterson. Learn more about our frameless shower enclosures statewide, or read the How much do frameless shower doors cost in NJ? and Frameless vs. semi-frameless: which is right? guides.
Wayne has no showroom of ours, so it is one of those two. Midland Park at 108 Greenwood Ave is about sixteen minutes out and runs by appointment only, so book ahead and the glass, hardware finishes and samples will be waiting. The main Lodi showroom at 80 Industrial Rd is roughly eighteen minutes away and you can walk in without calling ahead. Its weekday hours run 9 to 5, plus Saturday 9 to 4. The floor there has full enclosure displays and the glass and finish selection wall.
Usually nothing. The door hangs from the jamb, and the fixed panel beside it is held at the wall and on the curb, so the floor itself is left alone. The exception is a shower with no curb, where the foot of the panel has to be anchored into the floor. If that is the plan, ask whoever lays the heating mat to photograph it before the tile goes down, and bring the picture to the measure so the anchors land where the wire is not.
Plenty of people do, and the decision belongs at the template rather than after. The two holes are positioned to the exact centers of the bar you intend to use, so bring us that piece or its dimensions and we place them then. Weight is the other half of it. A loaded towel bar is dead load the hinges lift every time the door swings, so a heavy bar on a wide door is worth talking through first.
Rust on a framed door starts where water sits: in the bottom track and the corners of the frame, which stay wet long after the shower is off. A frameless door has no track and no frame, so there is nowhere for water to pool against metal. What is left is the hinges and the pull, mounted on upright surfaces that shed water the way the glass does. A wipe now and then, the way you would treat a faucet, is most of what they ask for.
Usually, and the curb gives a little room to work with. The glass does not have to stand on the outer edge of the curb. Setting it back toward the shower side keeps water shedding inward and buys a finger or two of space beside the toilet. The metal on that side is the clip at the wall, and its height can be chosen to clear the tank rather than sit beside it. If the toilet is not in yet, bring its dimensions to the measure.
It is. Every exposed edge leaves our Lodi shop ground flat and polished, and on a frameless door that edge is on show all the time, since nothing covers it. Run a hand along one and it should feel smooth from end to end. The top of the fixed panel gets the same treatment, and it is the edge people tend to notice later, when light from a window catches it from the side.
In a split whose primary bath was widened around a vanity that stayed, the answer usually shows itself once somebody stands where the door would open. Call (201) 507-5918 and tell us whether the door would close against tile or against glass; the rest gets decided in the room at the free in-home measure. The written, itemized quote is yours to keep either way.
In a split whose primary bath was widened around a vanity that stayed, the answer usually shows itself once somebody stands where the door would open. Call (201) 507-5918 and tell us whether the door would close against tile or against glass; the rest gets decided in the room at the free in-home measure. The written, itemized quote is yours to keep either way.
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