How To Install Frameless Shower Door On Fiberglass Shower

Fiberglass gelcoat is short for gel coat fiberglass reinforced polyester more popularly known as fiberglass.

How to install frameless shower door on fiberglass shower.

Installing a shower door over a fiberglass shower is the easiest type of shower door to install because there is no need for additional anchors or masonry bits like there is for concrete or tile installation. I purchased online a 3 8 glass frameless swing door with panel for my fiberglass shower insert. I am struggling with hanging the door. Frameless shower doors are all the rage in upscale bathrooms with a tiled or stone shower wall and they re becoming more common in bathrooms with an acrylic or fiberglass shower enclosure.

Installing a shower door is usually a very straightforward project. Acrylic shower walls that install by gluing panels to drywall are not an appropriate substrate on which to install any shower door. There is an exception with a frameless door but it wouldn t be a good idea to try to install it in a fiberglass surround. Most pivot doors are designed to be reversible and can be installed with the pivots on the right or left side of the enclosure.

Some pieces may need to be customized. Showcase shower door reply november 2 2017 at 6 22 am. Make sure all necessary pieces are accounted for in your manufacturer s shower door kit. File it down with a metal file.

With a fiberglass shower all you have to do is screw in the shower door and seal it in place. I put the molly anchors plastic looks like they were designed for tile in the holes i drilled and they just dropped into the insert since they had no lip. They are elegant and easy to clean and they don t provide much real estate for mold colonies. In our project we had to round off the edges of the aluminum molding so they would fit perfectly into the radius of our fiberglass shower.

Place the door hinge gaskets to either side of the hinge. Slide the door hinges that come with the door into the cutouts on the side of the glass until centered with the hinge s mounting base the part that connects to the shower wall positioned so that the hinge swings freely against the edge of the door.