Daniel Snow from Glass.com talks with Dustin Anderson from Anderson Glass about different shower door options. There are advantages and disadvantages to each, as well as features and options you may not have known about. We talk through these so you can make an informed decision when choosing the perfect shower door for your bathroom.

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Daniel:
So Dustin, when customers are shopping for a new shower door for their bathroom one of the first things they should probably considers is whether they're going to go with a framed shower door or a frameless shower door.

Dustin:
Ultimately, the goal obviously is to move everyone to a frameless shower. It's the cleanest look; it's the best look. But, it doesn't always make sense for the customer economically. The framed showers are historically just a less expensive product. It's not as clean; it doesn't take as much fabrication to get to that point. So it's really difficult for us to guarantee that a frameless shower not leak. So we typically don't We tell our customers that there may be some residual water outside the shower. Framed showers however, do give you the option to get pretty leak-proof.

Daniel:
So Dustin, if someone does decide that they want to go with a frameless shower door over a framed shower door, it looks like there's a lot of different hinge options for that. Can you talk about some of those?

Dustin:
Right, so from the frameless perspective we've got to determine whether a swinging door is best for our customer, or a sliding door. In frameless doors you can do a single door with a sidelite, we can do a pair of doors, we can do doors with transoms. The opportunity and options really are limitless.

Daniel:
So right here though, we do have a swinging door? And this actually goes both ways.

Dustin:
Yes sir, correct. So in a shower, because of safety code, the only way to make a door swing in is if a door swings out. Framed doors can't swing in because they have a strike. But its nice because when you're done with your shower, swing it in and let it drip dry. Done deal.

Daniel:
So we've talked hinged shower doors, but we also have sliding shower doors as an option too. And it looks like we have a pretty cool example right here.

Dustin:
You have options from header shower to glass header showers now, to even headerless showers. So this basically one of the very few headerless sliders. This is a fixed panel, so it's actually mounted to the wall. And all the weight is just basically down at the bottom. It's just a gravity piece. But it rolls really well. The wheels are great. Functionality is good. And it does have a track across the bottom but the track isn't nearly as wide as these old school ones are. And it doesn't really collect. It's designed to usher the water back into the shower. And for the most part, bypass doors and sliding doors are a little bit easier to waterproof than a hinged door because we have less to work with on these edges.
So usually what folks are after- they don't want to take away from the appearance of the bathroom itself or the shower itself. So minimal hardware has kind of become a thing. Or see through hardware is kind of becoming a thing.