Custom Glass Shower Enclosures in Romeo, Michigan
Corner units, neo-angle, walk-in panels, glass meeting glass. If your shower is not a stock size off a shelf, and most are not, we measure it, build it and set it ourselves, start to finish.
Built To the Opening You Actually Have
A stock enclosure assumes your shower is a rectangle of one particular width with square corners and plumb walls. Real showers are rarely that agreeable. In the established homes near the center of Romeo, a bath may have been reworked more than once and the walls carry the evidence. Out in the newer subdivisions of northern Macomb County the problem flips, because the primary bath was designed around a large walk-in with a bench and a return panel, which is also not something you order by width off a shelf. A custom enclosure works the other direction. We start with the room, record what is really there, and cut the glass to it. Corner units with two panels meeting at the corner, neo-angle units that cross it on the diagonal, single fixed walk-in panels, glass-to-glass joints with no post between them.
Multi-panel work is where in-house measuring earns its money. One panel has one relationship to get right, which is glass to wall. A corner unit has three, which are glass to wall, glass to glass, and glass to the pan or curb underneath. Every one of those is affected by whether the walls are plumb, whether the corner is genuinely square, and how level the curb runs end to end. We measure all of it, note the fixtures and niches the glass has to clear, and take the notch and hole locations off the actual tile rather than off a plan somebody drew before the room was built. The panels are then fabricated together as a set. Tempered glass cannot be trimmed after tempering, so the numbers have to be right the first time. Ours are, because we took them ourselves.
Custom Glass Shower Enclosures, measured and built for Romeo.
Corner and Neo-Angle
Two panels meeting in a corner, or a neo-angle that clips the corner on the diagonal and hands you more elbow room inside a small footprint. Both need the corner angle measured, never assumed, because framing and tile rarely land on exactly ninety degrees. We cut to the angle we find in your bathroom.
Glass To Glass Joints
Where two panels meet with no post between them, the edges are polished and joined with clamps or a glass-to-glass hinge. It is the cleanest way to turn a corner. It also leaves no room for error, so those seams get measured and fabricated as a matched set instead of as two separate pieces of glass.
Fixed Walk-In Panels
A single fixed panel, sometimes with a short return, and no door at all. It suits a larger shower with the depth to keep spray away from the opening. We size the panel and its brace to the room so it stands solid and the entry stays wide enough to walk through without turning sideways.
Big Panels and Long-Term Clarity
A custom enclosure usually means more glass than a single door, and more glass means more surface for Metro Detroit hard water to work on. Minerals dry on the panel, build up, and eventually etch it permanently. On a large corner or walk-in unit that shows up faster than people expect, because you are looking at the whole wall of it every morning. Two choices help. Easy-clean glass treats the surface so water sheets off instead of clinging to it. Low iron glass removes the green cast that thick clear glass carries at the edges, which matters more the bigger a panel gets. Add a squeegee and thirty seconds after each shower and a big enclosure stays as clear as the day we set it.
Everything is fabricated in our own shop. The panels for your enclosure are cut, tempered, edge-polished and drilled as one job by the same people who measured your bathroom, then loaded and brought up Van Dyke to Romeo by our own crew. Setting a multi-panel enclosure takes two people at minimum and it goes in a specific order, with the fixed panels shimmed and anchored before anything hinges off them. Having the measurer, the fabricator and the installer be one operation removes the finger-pointing that happens when a glass shop blames the installer and the installer blames the shop. If something needs a call, you make one call.
- Corner and neo-angle units
- Glass-to-glass joints, no posts
- Fixed walk-in panels
- 3/8 inch tempered glass
- Free in-home measure in Romeo
- Fabricated and set by our own crew
Common questions.
Do you build custom shower enclosures in Romeo, MI?
Yes. We serve Romeo and the rest of northern Macomb County out of our showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave, Sterling Heights, MI 48314. Every enclosure starts with a free in-home measure and a no-pressure quote. Call (586) 315-8900, text (586) 800-9481, or email [email protected]. Showroom hours are Mon-Fri 9-5 and Sat 10-2 if you would rather see options first.
What actually counts as custom?
Anything that is not a stock size pulled off a shelf, which covers most real bathrooms. Openings an inch or two off a standard width. Corners that are not square. A bench or a niche the glass has to clear. A ceiling height that calls for taller panels. A neo-angle shape. If the glass has to be made for your particular room, it is custom work and we build it that way.
Does my tile need to be finished before you measure?
Yes, and this is the detail that trips up remodel schedules. We measure to finished surfaces, because the glass is cut to the tile, not to the backer board. Tile and waterproofing are your tile contractor's work, not ours. Once the tile is set and grouted and the pan is in, call us and we will come take the final measurements.
Can you work around a bench, a niche or a sloped ceiling?
Usually, yes. Notches, angled top cuts and panels sized around a bench are normal custom work for us. What we need is an accurate picture of the real geometry, which is why we come out instead of taking numbers over the phone. Tempered glass cannot be cut after it is tempered, so everything the panel must clear gets recorded at the measure.
How many panels will my enclosure need?
It depends on the opening and on how the glass gets supported. A corner might be two panels. A larger walk-in might be a fixed panel, a return and a door. There is no fixed answer, and more panels are not automatically better. At the measure we lay out the workable options and explain what each one does to the way the room actually functions.
Design Your Custom Enclosure
Send a photo of your opening or book a free in-home measure in Romeo. Call (586) 315-8900, text (586) 800-9481, or visit the Van Dyke showroom Mon-Fri 9-5 and Sat 10-2.