New Construction Shower Doors In Harrison Township, MI
Glass is cut to a finished bathroom, so the enclosure lands after tile and before the punch walk. Fortune Shower Doors measures what you actually built, fabricates in our own Sterling Heights shop, and installs with our own family.
The Glass Is Cut To The House You Actually Built
The print says one thing and the finished bathroom says another. Board, mud, tile and the setter's own hand all add thickness, and a stud wall picks up a lean nobody notices until something straight is held against it. By the time an opening is grouted it is rarely the number that was drawn. That is fine, because every panel is cut to the opening as it finally exists. It stops being fine when somebody orders glass off plan dimensions to get ahead of the schedule. Nothing gets trimmed in the field.
Two things belong to you long before anyone arrives with a tape. First, settle which opening gets which enclosure, because that is a framing decision before it is a finish decision. A swing door loads one wall hard, a slider wants continuous backing along the header, and a fixed panel puts its clips somewhere else again. Once an opening is known to be getting frameless shower doors in Harrison Township instead of semi-frameless shower doors, the framer can put wood where the hardware will land. Second, name the one person who approves.
That second one is what quietly stalls bathrooms. On a spec house you specify it like any other finish and sign off yourself. On a presold house the buyer picks, and that selection has to reach us before fabrication begins, which means somebody has to tell them it is theirs to make. Every job runs out of the same Sterling Heights showroom, with no branch office and no local yard behind shower doors in Harrison Township. The glass is cut in our own shop and set by the same family that measured it.
What A Builder Has To Get Right Before We Arrive
Backing Goes In Behind The Drywall
Hinges, header brackets and clips all have to land in wood. Mark the hinge wall and the header line for the framer while the studs are open. Once tile is on, the only way to add backing is to open up finished work that is already signed off.
One Opening List, One Measure
Hand us every shower in the house at once: which openings are stalls, which are tub openings, and what each one is getting. Openings measured together get fabricated together, so the house carries one consistent set of hardware instead of choices made bathroom by bathroom.
A Room That Is Ready On Measure Day
Tile complete and grouted, curb and pan finished, floor clear, light in the room, site access sorted. If the tile crew is coming back for a niche edge or a return wall, the measure waits for them. We take numbers off the surfaces that stay.
Where A New Build Loses The Bathroom On The Punch List
Most glass items on a punch list started as a decision another trade made weeks earlier. A curb tiled flat, or pitched so water runs at the track instead of the pan. A niche that moved after layout and took the panel line with it. A tall wall that leans just enough to open a wedge. A shower head aimed square at the door seam. A switch sitting where a hinge wants to go. None are glass problems, and all of them surface the day the glass arrives.
The rest is sequencing. Book the glass shower door installation in Harrison Township after tile is signed off, and keep the flooring, paint and trim crews out of that bathroom while panels are carried in and set. Anything that is not a plain rectangle, a corner, a neo-angle, a run around a bench, is where custom glass shower enclosures earn their keep, so flag those openings at the measure. Framing, waterproofing, the pan and the tile are other trades and all come first.
- Enclosure type chosen per opening before framing closes
- Solid backing behind hinge, header and clip lines
- Curb tiled with the pitch running into the pan
- Tile finished, grouted and clean before the measure
- One name approving every selection and every change
- Bathroom closed to other trades while glass is going in
Common questions.
We are still framing. What do you need from us right now?
Two things, and neither is glass. Settle which opening gets which enclosure, so the layout is known, and put solid backing behind every hinge wall, header line and clip location while the studs are open. Glass and finish can wait for a selection meeting.
Can you measure the rough opening so glass is ready when tile is done?
No, and this is the one place we will not bend. Board, mud, tile and grout all move the numbers. A panel cut off framing dimensions arrives with a gap at one jamb and a bind at the other. Call for the measure the day the grout is in.
Who signs off on the glass, the builder or the buyer?
Whichever you tell us at the measure, and it has to be one person. On a spec house that is usually you, and on a presold house the buyer often picks glass and finish, which has to reach us before fabrication starts. Two people picking separately is what stalls a bathroom.
The buyer changed the hardware finish after the order went in. Now what?
Tell us the moment it happens rather than at the walkthrough. Panels are cut to one opening and hardware is ordered against one spec, so a change caught early is a phone call and a change caught late is new material. That is the argument for one approver.
Does every shower in the house have to use the same enclosure type?
No, and usually it should not. A primary bath, a hall bath and a basement stall each ask for something different. What holds a house together is the glass and the hardware finish, not the door style. Pick those once and every opening can still suit its own room.
Put Us On The Schedule Early
Call (586) 315-8900 with your opening list and where the house sits in the build, or email [email protected]. Free in-home measure and a no-pressure quote, out of the showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights.