Shower Glass Door Adjustment - straight again!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- So you've got a nice frameless glass shower. Congrats! But these amazing glass doors may develop problems over time, mostly due to sagging. It might be difficult or impossible to close the door, or it may leak because gaps are not correct anymore.
In all those cases you need to adjust the door and the hinges to make sure you have that perfect alignment with the right gaps. In this video we tackle such a project. You can see how does sagging door look like and the effects of that, and you can see the door adjusted to the extent possible.
Don't forget to like and subscribe if you found this useful and would like to see more. Let me know in the comments what you agree/disagree with, what you liked, what you didn't like, if you have any questions, if you know of a better way of doing it, or if there is something that I absolutely should not be doing or have done ;) All constructive feedback is welcome! ;)
Very nice content. Thank you for doing this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Video was well done! Adding shims inside of the hinges would eliminate sagging permanently though
Thanks for suggestion!
Yes, I'd like to see how that would be done. What would have worn so much as to necessitating swimming the hinge? Not the glass or the metal ... perhaps the gasket. Then why not just replace gasket.
Definitely helped me thanks for the video.
You're welcome!
Thank you for the video. We tried it and it worked for a few days. But the door sags again after a few days. So far we have just been doing this repeatedly. Perhaps the door is too heavy for our hinges.
Hm, interesting. Hinges certainly can be a problem, but before you try to replace them, make sure you tighten the clamps enough, perhaps this is the reason why the door is slipping out. You can also try to put a sharpie mark on the bolts/screws to see if they rotate out a bit after initial tightening (due to vibration perhaps?) This could be an explanation for reduced clamping force, if that's the case you can just add some thread locker to the threads.
All parts of the hinges and any gaskets should have been cleaned with alcohol during installation. If the door does not hold its correct position this was most likely not done. Or an inferior manufacturer was used
Nice, I put french glass doors in mine
Are these the ones with the metal frame? If yes, you probably won't have this issue at all as I assume hinges are connected to metal parts, no need to clamping glass there.
@@JustMakeItNow frameless doors ,didn't want one heavy single glass door ,yours will work with french doors my glass guy idea looks great
How do you tighten the hinge screws when you are outside of the stall
I tighten hinge screws from the inside...
He reached it from the top and screwed it on the inside!
So how did you tighten up the screws on the hinges on the inside of the shower when you were on the outside?
Not sure what you mean, hinge screws are indeed on the inside side, and that's where I was when tightening these ;)
@@JustMakeItNow Starting at 8 minutes in, you are outside the shower shimming it up and down, in and out, left and right, and horizontally and vertically, (you get the idea) , and there is no one inside the shower. What mean.
Oh, I see what you mean ;) The explanation is at th-cam.com/video/ZEZaLRHhJYo/w-d-xo.html, but basically the whole thing (including shimming) was done from the inside, but there was no space to film it properly. Shims on the outside are there just for illustration purposes, in reality the door is already adjusted at that time.
By law all shower doors must swing out
This one is actually able to swing both in and out, made it easier to work on ;)
@@JustMakeItNow oh ok it looked like the strike seal prevented from swinging out
Did you not watch the video?
It would have been much better had you made a higher quality video, properly photographed,produced and edited. I think your view count would have been substantially better and would have paid off handsomely given that this is a very popular topic amongst TH-cam home repairs. Get someone to operate the camera and you can focus on the job at hand. The video should still come in under 5 minutes.
Thanks for commenting!