Ask where the top of the glass should land and most people have never thought about it. That one number changes how a tub bath works: reaching in to run a bath, washing a kid, the spray off the showerhead, the towel bar you are about to lose. We fit tempered glass over the tub already in your Ramsey bathroom, either bypass panels on a track or one fixed screen.
Top of glass is a real decision. Run it low and the tub is easy to reach into, but a tall person turns the shower into a splash test. Run it high and you hold the spray in, then find the rim awkward to lean over when you are filling the tub or rinsing a kid's hair. Where it should land depends on your showerhead height, where the tile stops, and honestly on who uses the room. We ask before we quote rather than after, because the answer changes both the glass size and the hardware.
That answer also steers the layout. Bypass panels ride a track across the tub deck and never swing into the room, which suits a narrow bath, though you give up half the opening at any moment and the track wants wiping. A single fixed screen at the faucet end leaves the rest of the tub wide open, which is easier for bathing a child or cleaning the tub itself, and there is nothing to slide. Neither one requires touching the tub. We set glass on the tub that is already there.
Ramsey is a commuter town with two stations, one down at Main Street and one out by Route 17, and the hall bath is where that shows up. It is the room the whole house needs inside the same half hour, and usually the one that never got renovated, because the budget landed in the kitchen. A tub door is the most useful thing left to change in it. Glass instead of a liner means nothing clinging to anybody at six in the morning and nothing to replace every few months.
The install fits that schedule better than people expect. Once the glass is fabricated, the install is normally a single visit. When an old framed door is coming out, that happens first, and what is underneath is usually a caulk line and tile that has not seen daylight in years. We would rather find that at the measure than on install day. The Country Club colonials and the townhomes near the stations turn up the same surprises, and a tape settles them either way. Whatever turns up goes into the written quote first, not into a conversation on install day.
Tub glass from homes in Ramsey and the towns around it. The detail worth studying is where the top edge lands in each one, because the same tub reads completely differently at two heights.
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There is no single right answer, which is exactly why we ask. A taller panel holds more spray in, and a shorter one is easier to reach across when you are running a bath or washing a child. What we look at is where your showerhead sits, where the tile stops, and who uses the room most. Then the glass gets set to that, rather than to whatever size a box happened to come in.
On the tub deck, in almost every case. The bottom track sits on the rim itself and the vertical jambs fasten into the tile at each end, so what we need at the measure is the width of the rim, whether it is flat or rolled, and what the tile is bedded on. A rolled rim on an older tub is not a problem. It changes the track and the sealant detail, nothing more.
It usually has to move, and it is worth deciding early. A bar on the wall above the tub sits right where a tall panel or a track wants to be, and nobody notices until install day. We flag it at the measure. Some bypass sliders carry a towel bar on the outer panel, which solves it neatly. Otherwise the bar shifts a few inches and the wall gets patched by whoever handles that.
It sits against the tile in a jamb channel at each end, and that joint is sealed with silicone rather than left open. Tile is rarely dead plumb, especially in an older bathroom, so the channel absorbs a small amount of lean while keeping a continuous line. That is also why we take the opening at more than one height. A door built to a single measurement is the one with a wedge of daylight at the top.
It might, so say it out loud at the measure. If the tub is going within a year or two, we would rather know than build you something with a short life ahead of it. If the change is further off, fit the tub properly now. When the day comes and the tub is out, the new pan and tile belong to your contractor, and the enclosure glass over them is ours.
We set both as appointments rather than a window, so you can plan around a train. Someone does need to be at the house to let the crew in and to sign off on the glass height, since that is the one call we will not make for you. If it is easier to talk it through in person first, our Midland Park showroom on Greenwood Ave is about thirteen minutes south and runs by appointment.
Send the width across the tub rim and roughly where your showerhead sits, and we can start. Call (201) 507-5918 or text Jessica a photo of the alcove. The measure at your house in Ramsey is free, and the height decision gets made with you standing there.
Send the width across the tub rim and roughly where your showerhead sits, and we can start. Call (201) 507-5918 or text Jessica a photo of the alcove. The measure at your house in Ramsey is free, and the height decision gets made with you standing there.
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