Wyckoff's colonials and Cape Cods were built with the tub set into an alcove, and no two of those alcoves measure quite the same. Our part is the glass and the hardware that carries it. The tub stays, the tile stays, and the plumbing is nobody's to move. What changes is what spans the opening: two bypass panels riding a track along the deck, or one fixed screen at the shower end, cut to your alcove rather than to a box size.
Start with the glass. A bypass slider puts two tempered panels on a track, so nothing swings out into a room that may have no space for a swing, and you can reach the tub from either end. A single fixed screen leaves the rest of the opening clear, gives you one uninterrupted piece to wipe down, and suits a tub that gets filled for baths as often as it gets used for showers. Thickness follows that choice, since a screen standing on its own edge wants more glass than a panel supported along a track.
Then the metal, which is the part most people underestimate. On a tub door the hardware sits at eye level, it is what your hand lands on every morning, and it is the only piece of the assembly with moving parts in it. Track, rollers or hinge, the handle and the wall jambs all arrive in one finish, and that finish is worth matching to what is already in the room: the tub filler, the towel bar, the fixture over the mirror. Oil-rubbed bronze, matte black, brushed nickel and polished chrome are what we hang.
In a house here there is usually a second bathroom with a tub still sitting in it. The primary may have gone to a walk-in shower years ago while a second bath and a guest bath kept theirs, and they usually kept the same rod and liner along with them. Because we are measuring at the house anyway, taking both openings on the same visit costs you nothing and saves a second appointment. The two doors are then cut together, delivered together and set the same day, which is one morning of the house being busy instead of two.
The openings are almost never twins. Alcoves in one house can differ by half an inch, tile thickness differs when the baths were done in different decades, and the faucet can sit at opposite ends. So each one gets its own set of widths and its own layout even though they go in as a single order. Worth saying plainly: we supply and install the glass and its hardware. We are not pulling the tub, retiling the walls or touching the plumbing, and where a bath is being converted, the glass is still where our scope ends.
Sliders and screens fitted over tubs that were staying put, in Wyckoff and the towns next to it. Look at where the jamb meets the tile, because on a tub door that joint decides whether water stays in.
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It changes what you clean rather than adding to it. A curtain and its liner hold water, grow things along the hem and eventually get thrown away. Glass gets wiped. The parts that want attention are the bottom track on a slider, which should be rinsed so it drains, and the seal along the wall jamb. A squeegee on the panels after a shower takes about ten seconds and heads off most of the rest.
Both are available on tub glass. Standard clear carries a faint green cast in its edge that shows most on a large panel, and low iron takes it out, which reads cleaner against white tile. A protective coating is applied to the surface so water beads and leaves instead of drying in place. On a tub door the whole family uses, the coating is usually the option that earns its keep.
Two of them, neither inside the township, because we have no Wyckoff location. The Greenwood Ave showroom in Midland Park, number 108, is seven minutes or so away and works by appointment, so call (201) 507-5918 and a time gets held. Samples and hardware finishes are kept at both, and the Lodi shop at 80 Industrial Rd, closer to twenty minutes, is open six days without an appointment.
No. If there is a door on the tub now, removing it is part of the install and it happens the same morning the new glass goes on. The old jambs come off the tile at the same time. What is left behind is usually a line of hardened sealant and a few anchor holes, and those get cleaned up and sealed as the new jambs are set. Nothing needs prepping for us.
Three things working together. The panels overlap where they pass on a slider, so water running down the inner panel is carried back over the tub. A vinyl sweep along the bottom edge closes the gap down to the track. And the track is set with a slight pitch, so anything landing in it drains back inside rather than pooling. Set correctly, the water is left with no path to the floor.
Yes, and it is a common ask on a tub in a bathroom that opens onto a hallway or shares a wall with a bedroom. Obscure and textured glass is made for that. It costs you some light, so on a slider we will often suggest it on the panel that needs it and clear on the other. The trade is much easier to judge with the glass in front of you than described.
Send a photo of the tub and the width across the opening to (201) 507-5918, and say whether there is a second bath in the house we should look at. The measure is free, Wyckoff is a short trip for our crew, and you get the layout and the number before anything is ordered.
Send a photo of the tub and the width across the opening to (201) 507-5918, and say whether there is a second bath in the house we should look at. The measure is free, Wyckoff is a short trip for our crew, and you get the layout and the number before anything is ordered.
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