Custom Shower Doors For Pontiac
Our showroom sits at 42624 Van Dyke Avenue in Sterling Heights, a short drive east of you. We measure, build, and install frameless, sliding, and swing glass shower enclosures for homes across Pontiac and the rest of Oakland County.
Glass Made For Your Home
Pontiac runs about thirteen miles west of our showroom, an easy trip up the connectors that link the city to the rest of Oakland County. We bring the full process to you: a careful in-home measure, glass and hardware you can see and touch in person, and an install handled by the same family that fabricated it. Nothing about your enclosure gets handed off to an outside glass shop.
Homes here cover a wide range, from the older established neighborhoods near downtown and the lakes to the newer subdivisions spreading out along the edges of town. A craftsman-era bath and a recently built primary suite ask for very different things, so we treat each one on its own terms. Whatever the era of your house, your enclosure is cut to the real walls of your bathroom rather than a standard size off a shelf.
A tub is still the shower in a lot of these houses.
Pontiac does not have one kind of bathroom. The housing runs across a wide range of eras, so the room we measure on a Tuesday can be laid out decades apart from the one we walked into the day before. There is no default answer here, and very little that comes out of a box at the right size.
The most common thing we find is a tub doing double duty as the shower, with a curtain on a rod holding the water in. Around it is a room with no floor space to spare. In a tight hall bath the vanity or the swing of the bathroom door often sits inches from the tub, which rules out anything that opens outward before you have picked a finish.
The second thing is that the walls are rarely plumb. A house that has stood a long time settles into its own shape, and whatever tile went up followed the shape it found. Measuring here usually means writing down more than one width for the same opening, top, middle and bottom, then building glass to the numbers actually in the room.
- Tub and shower combos where a curtain is still doing the work
- Tight hall baths with the vanity or the door crowding the tub
- Older houses where nothing in the opening is plumb or square
- Newer rooms with a full walk-in and tile worth showing off
Three Ways To Enclose The Glass
Frameless
Clean panels of 3/8" tempered glass held by minimal hardware, with no bulky metal frame to interrupt the view. It suits both the open primary baths in newer builds and a thoughtfully updated older home.
Sliding (Barn-Style)
Glass that rolls on an exposed top track for a relaxed, modern look that saves floor space. A good fit for tubs and for tighter bathrooms common in the city's older housing stock.
Swing (Hinged)
A classic hinged door that opens wide on solid hardware, simple to use and easy to keep clean. It works beautifully in walk-in showers across a wide range of bathroom layouts.
Pontiac at a glance.
Measured At Home, Built In-House
It starts with a free in-home measure. We come to your bathroom, look at the actual walls and floor, and talk through what will work for the space and how you use it. There is no pressure and no obligation to decide on the spot.
From there you choose your glass and your metal, and the same family fabricates everything to your room's exact dimensions before returning to install it. Because we handle the glass ourselves, the person who measured your bathroom is connected to the panels that go in, start to finish.
- Free in-home measure
- Choose glass and hardware in person
- 3/8" tempered glass throughout
- Matte black, gold, chrome, or nickel
- Clear, low-iron, frosted, or rain glass
- Fabricated and installed by one family
Which glass belongs in a settled house.
Around Pontiac the pick that surprises people is the one in the middle. Semi-Frameless Shower Doors put metal only where the door needs support, and that bit of frame gives us room to work with a wall that is out of true. In a house that has settled for decades, that tolerance is the difference between a door that latches on its own and one you have to push shut. Framed Shower Doors sit at the sturdier end of the same range and earn their keep in a busy family bathroom.
If your tub is still the shower, the question is whether the glass slides or swings, and in a tight hall bath the slider usually wins because nothing travels out into the room. Bathtub Shower Doors are built for that exact opening, and Sliding Shower Doors do the same job on a wider run. Where the floor space is there, hinged shower doors open wide and read cleaner.
When the room is already open and the tile deserves to be seen, Frameless Shower Doors drop the metal box out of the picture and a room that felt cramped reads as one space. For a corner, a neo-angle or any opening that is not a stock size, and most here are not, Custom Glass Shower Enclosures get built to the room rather than trimmed to fit. When the enclosure in there now has reached the end of its working life, Shower Door Replacement keeps the opening you already have, and Glass Shower Door Installation is done by the crew that measured it.
When the old unit is fighting the room.
Hard water is the quiet one. It leaves mineral on the glass, and over enough showers it etches the surface until the panel looks permanently hazy no matter what you spray on it. On a framed door it also collects in the bottom track and along the frame, where it is harder to reach and easier to ignore. The rest of the failures are mechanical. Vinyl sweeps go stiff and stop sealing, rollers wear flat, and the door starts dragging on one corner until you are lifting it to close it.
None of that means the bathroom has to come apart. New glass goes into the opening that is already there, so the tile, the pan and the plumbing stay put, and the old enclosure leaves with the crew. What it does mean is that the replacement has to be measured against the walls as they sit today, not against whatever numbers the last unit was cut to. Plumbing, tile, waterproofing and demolition are other trades. The glass is ours.
Thirteen miles, and we make the drive twice.
Pontiac sits about thirteen miles west of the showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, and there is no Pontiac branch behind that address. Your glass is measured by us, built at that shop by one family, and brought back out to you. The run is short enough that returning to your house is never the hard part.
The first trip is the free in-home measure. Someone puts a level on your walls, writes down what the opening really is, and sets frame finishes and glass side by side in your own bathroom light. The quote covers what is actually there, with no pressure. The second trip is the install. Showroom hours are Monday to Friday 9 to 5 and Saturday 10 to 2. Call (586) 315-8900, text (586) 800-9481, or email [email protected].
Around Pontiac.
Fortune serves Oakland County and the communities around it, so if you are close to the Pontiac line we are already working on your street. Nearby we also build and install in Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Rochester Hills and Troy.
Everything runs out of one showroom, which is the point: the same family measures in Pontiac, fabricates the glass in our own shop and installs it, whichever city the job is in. The full list of communities we cover is on the service area page, and if you do not see yours, call the showroom and ask.
Common questions.
Do you serve Pontiac?
Yes. The city is roughly thirteen miles from our Sterling Heights showroom, and we install regularly throughout Oakland County. We come to you for the measure and again for the installation.
What does a custom shower door cost?
Price depends on the size of the opening, the enclosure style, the thickness and type of glass, and the hardware finish you choose. After the free in-home measure we give you a clear, itemized quote with no surprises.
How long does the project take?
Most projects move from measure to install in a couple of weeks, since the glass is cut to order and tempered before it reaches your home. We will give you a firm timeline once we have measured your bathroom.
Do you install, or only supply the glass?
We handle the whole job: measure, fabricate, and install. The glass is never sub-contracted to an outside shop, so the same family that builds your enclosure is the one that sets it in place.
Do you have a Pontiac location, or do you come from Sterling Heights?
We come to you. The showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights is the only address, about thirteen miles east of Pontiac, and it is where your glass gets cut. We cover Pontiac and the rest of Oakland County from there, once to measure and again to install.
My Pontiac house is old and nothing in the bathroom is square. Is that a problem?
It is normal here rather than a problem. Walls in a house that has stood this long are almost never plumb. We measure the opening at several heights and build glass to those readings. Where a wall is off enough to show, a little frame gives us more to work with.
What does hard water do to a framed door around here?
It collects where you cannot easily get at it: the bottom track, the frame corners, the vinyl. Drying the glass after showers slows the buildup. Once mineral has etched the surface, the haze is in the glass and no cleaner brings it back, and new glass in the same opening is the honest answer.
Our tub is still the shower. What goes in place of the curtain?
Glass built for a tub opening. It holds water better than a liner, there is no plastic to grow mildew, and in a small hall bath that one change does more for the room than paint or a new mirror. Panels that slide are usually the pick, since nothing swings toward the vanity.
Is my shower opening a stock size?
Probably not. Most openings in Pontiac are not, which is why nothing gets quoted before it is measured. The enclosure is built to the room instead of trimmed out of a carton, and that is what keeps the panels meeting cleanly and the water on the correct side of the glass.
Can you do a steam enclosure in an older Pontiac bathroom?
The glass side of it, yes. A steam enclosure runs to the ceiling with a transom and tight seals so the vapor stays in the shower. The generator, the plumbing and the waterproofing behind the tile belong to other trades. We build and set the glass once that finished opening exists.
Ready When You Are
Reach out to schedule your free in-home measure and see your glass and hardware options in person.