Custom Glass Shower Enclosures In Lake Orion
Corner units, neo angle, walk in panels and glass to glass returns. If your opening is not a stock size off a shelf, it gets built to the real dimensions in our own shop.
Built To The Opening You Actually Have
A stock shower door is built for an opening that does not exist. It comes in a handful of widths, it assumes your walls are square and plumb, and it expects the curb to be level. Real bathrooms are not like that, and Lake Orion has more odd bathrooms than a town its size ought to. A custom enclosure starts from the other end. We measure what is in front of us, and the glass is cut to those numbers. Corner units where two panels meet at a right angle. Neo angle units that cross a corner on the diagonal. Walk in panels with no door at all. Glass to glass returns that turn ninety degrees on a hinge holding two panels together instead of a wall. If it does not come out of a box, it comes out of the shop.
The houses drive the layouts. Older places near the water were added onto over the years, and additions bring knee walls, dormers and ceilings that slope right where the shower ended up. Enclosures there get notched and stepped to follow the room instead of fighting it. The newer subdivision homes run the other way, with bigger master baths that have space for a bench, a curbless pan or a walk in with a long return panel, and those need glass sized for spans a stock unit does not carry. Both are custom work. Neither is harder for us than the other, because either way we are building from your dimensions rather than trying to make a catalog part fit a room it was never drawn for.
Custom Glass Shower Enclosures, measured and built for Lake Orion.
Layouts Beyond A Box
Corner and neo angle units, inline panels with a return, walk in panels, glass to glass hinges, transoms, and notched pieces that step around a bench or a knee wall. If your shower is not a plain rectangle in an alcove, it is the kind of work we build all the time. We sketch the layout with you at the measure.
Notched Before Tempering
Tempered glass cannot be cut, drilled or notched once it has been through the oven. Every hole for a hinge, every clip cutout and every notch around a curb has to be laid out before that. It is why the dimensions have to be right the first time, and why we take them ourselves instead of trusting a number over the phone.
Set In Sequence
A multi panel enclosure goes in as a sequence, not all at once. Fixed panels first, shimmed and checked, then the returns, then the door hung and adjusted last so it swings true against panels that are already true. Two people carry every piece. Rushing the order is how a job ends up with a door that binds.
How A Multi Panel Enclosure Gets Measured And Built
Measuring one panel is easy. Measuring four that all have to meet each other is the job. We take the width at several heights instead of one, because a wall that is a quarter inch out at the ceiling and dead on at the curb will throw a tall panel visibly off. We check the curb for level and for pitch, since the glass sits on it and the water runs off it. We check the corner for square. Then we look at how those errors stack, because a small variance at one panel becomes an obvious gap by the time it has traveled through three. All of it gets written down on site, in your bathroom, with the tile already on the wall. Nothing is guessed off a floor plan.
From there it goes to our own shop. The glass is cut to the numbers we took, the notches and holes are laid out, and then the panels are tempered. Nothing is ordered in from a supplier who has never seen your house and never will. When the enclosure is ready we load it and drive it out to Lake Orion ourselves, which matters more than it sounds like it should when the cargo is tempered glass. On install day the same family that measured your bathroom is the crew standing in it. If the opening changed since we were there, we know it, and there is no back and forth between a salesman, a supplier and an installer who have never spoken to each other.
- Corner and neo angle layouts
- Walk in panels and glass to glass returns
- Notches and holes cut before tempering
- 3/8 inch tempered glass throughout
- Measured, built and set by one family
- Free in-home measure across Oakland County
Common questions.
Do you build custom shower enclosures in Lake Orion?
That is most of what we do up there. The showroom is at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, MI 48314, about 16 miles from Lake Orion. Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 for a free in-home measure. We walk the opening with you, talk through corner, neo angle and walk in layouts, and give you a real quote with no pressure.
What makes an enclosure custom instead of stock?
A stock unit comes in fixed widths and heights and expects your walls to cooperate. A custom enclosure starts from the opening in front of us: the actual width at three heights, the actual curb, the actual ceiling. Corner units, neo angle layouts, walk in panels, glass to glass returns and anything that needs a notch cut into it all land on the custom side.
Can glass be trimmed after it is tempered?
No, and that is the single most important thing to understand about ordering glass. Tempering locks in the shape for good. Every edge, every hole for a hinge and every notch has to be cut before the panel goes through the oven. If a dimension is wrong, the panel is scrap. That is exactly why we measure your opening in person once the tile is finished.
Do you handle the tile and the shower pan too?
No. Tile, waterproofing and plumbing belong to other trades, and we are straight with people about that. Our part is the glass: measuring it, building it and setting it. We come in after the tile is finished, because that is the only surface the glass can be measured against. If your contractor wants to talk through timing before then, we are glad to. It keeps the schedule clean for everybody.
How does a walk in panel stay solid without a door?
A fixed panel anchors into a wall channel or clips along one edge, and on a tall or wide panel a support bar carries the top back to the wall or the ceiling. That anchoring has to hit solid framing behind the tile. We locate the framing at the measure so the panel is not leaning on tile alone to hold it steady.
Let Us Measure Your Enclosure
Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 to set up a free in-home measure in Lake Orion. We will walk the opening with you and quote the actual job, not a guess.