New Construction Shower Doors In Chesterfield Township, MI
In a Chesterfield Township build the enclosure goes in near the end, which means it inherits every tolerance the trades ahead of it used up. We measure the opening as it was actually built, cut the panels to those numbers in our own shop, and set them in a finished room.
New Does Not Mean Square
The assumption that costs a builder the most on this trade is that a brand new house is plumb. Framing moves as it dries. Board goes on over it. Mortar, membrane and tile each add a thickness of their own, and by the time the bathroom is finished the opening is rarely the dimension that sat on the plan. That is ordinary construction, not poor work. It only becomes a problem when somebody orders glass off a drawing and then finds the difference at the walkthrough, with the buyer standing in the doorway.
So nothing gets cut until the room is real. Tile up, grout in, curb set, threshold done, and then we measure the walls as they exist and plan the panels around what is actually there. For you that puts one date ahead of all the others: the day your tile setter walks out of that bathroom for good. Send it as soon as it firms up, and send it again if it moves. The measure hangs off that date, and everything after the measure hangs off the measure.
In a new primary bath the usual specification is frameless shower doors in Chesterfield Township. Where the footprint stops behaving like a rectangle, which in newer builds around here it often does, it becomes a custom glass shower enclosure in Chesterfield Township rather than a stock unit wedged into a space that will not take one. Either way the glass shower door installation in Chesterfield Township is done by the same family that took the measure, so nobody turns up on your site holding a work order for a room they have never stood in.
Where Your Schedule And Ours Actually Touch
A Finished Opening, Not A Rough One
We measure what the panels will seal against, so the tile, the grout, the curb and the threshold all have to be complete in that bathroom. Tiled except for the bench does not count. Curbed but not grouted does not count. A measure taken over unfinished work produces glass built to a room that will not exist by the time we come back to set it.
The Secondary Baths Are Not An Afterthought
A house is not one shower. There is the primary, and then the hall and secondary baths, where a tub sits in an alcove and needs an enclosure of its own. Specify them together. Baths chosen months apart end up with hardware that does not quite agree, and a buyer notices that on the walkthrough even when they cannot name what is bothering them.
Install Day Wants The Room To Itself
Panels arrive finished and they go in finished, so we need the bathroom clear, the floor protected, light and power in the room, and nobody working over the top of us. On a build running several trades against one deadline, that is worth writing on the schedule rather than assuming.
Where A Build Loses Its Glass Date
It is almost never the glass that stalls a job. It is a question nobody answered. Who picks the hardware, you or the buyer. Is the tile finished, or finished except for the niche. Is the valve trim in, or still in a box on the vanity. Is the site open on install day and is there power in that wing of the house. Those are five minute conversations at the measure and real problems at the walkthrough, which is why we would rather ask them early and be told we are being fussy.
Scope is the other thing worth saying out loud once. Demolition, framing, waterproofing, the pan, the tile and the plumbing are all other trades' work, and all of it lands before us. Our part begins when there is a finished opening to measure. In hall and secondary baths that a family will use hard, a slim frame around the door holds it square through that use, and semi-frameless shower doors in Chesterfield Township spec well in that role. The full range we build for the township sits on the Chesterfield Township shower doors page.
- Field measure taken after tile, grout and curb are complete
- Tile completion date passed along as soon as it is set
- Primary and secondary baths specified in one pass
- One person named to approve glass, hardware and swing
- Solid backing behind the tile wherever hardware anchors
- Room clear, floor protected and lit on install day
Common questions.
Is a brand new house square enough to order glass against?
Usually not exactly, and that is normal. Walls that sit out of square turn up in houses finished this season, not only in old ones. It is why we measure the built opening instead of the drawn one and plan the panels around the lean we find. A quarter inch nobody would notice in framing is very visible in a glass door.
What has to be done in the bathroom before you can measure?
Tile up and grouted, pan and curb complete, threshold set, valve trim in, and the room clear enough to work in. If one item is outstanding, tell us which one and we will time the visit around it. Measuring over unfinished work is the most reliable way to end up building a panel twice.
We have three baths in this house. Do they all have to match?
They do not have to, but a house reads better when the hardware agrees with itself. Specify them at the same time, even if the primary is getting frameless glass and the hall bath is getting something simpler. Choosing them together also means one visit covers the house instead of a separate trip per bathroom.
Our buyer wants to change the glass after the tile is in. Can they?
Up to a point, and the point is fabrication. Before anything is cut, the style, the glass and the finish are all still open. Once panels are cut to that opening, they are cut. What we ask for is one name on the approval, because two people approving different things after fabrication is the version of this that hurts.
Who is responsible for the backing behind the tile?
The framing carpenter, working from a layout that already knows where the glass goes. Hardware anchors into solid backing, not into tile and the mortar under it, so the wall has to be built for it before the board goes on. Tell us the layout at framing and we will tell you where that backing needs to land.
Our tile date moved. What does that do to the glass?
It moves the measure with it, which is why we would rather hear about it early than arrive to a room that is not ready. Nothing gets fabricated off an assumption about when tile will be finished. Give us the new date and we book the measure against the room rather than against the calendar.
Send Us Your Tile Date
Call (586) 315-8900, text (586) 800-9481, or email [email protected]. Tell us how many baths are in the house and when the tile setter expects to be out of them. Free in-home measure and a no-pressure quote, out of the family showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights.