uPVC window as bespoke shower panel?!

[Ian Stirling]

Call round the glaziers in your area, and ask about it. Odd shapes can be done not too expensively, and then the panel sent out for heat-treating. (or you can use laminated glass.)

[Bob Minchin]

Years ago when I needed something like this, I bought a diy kit for secondary double glazing which gave me lengths of H section aluminium and corner fittings. I used this with acrylic sheet plastic in.

The resulting screen is still in my bathroom today.

It may well be more difficult to find secondary DG kits these days but I might give you another option.

Regards

Bob

[Mark]

If cost is an issue. I had to build something similar some time ago, I used those square glass blocks that you can now get in different colours from most diy stores.

[Lobster]

I'm fitting a new 760mm shower door to a 900mm-wide shower tray. For the remaining 140mm of width, I'd idealy like a glass panel but unfortunately the roof line passes down diagonally through this area, so the only realistic option is a customised panel; ie arm-and-leg job. I'd therefore resigned myself to building a short bit of stud partition to fill the gap instead (attempted rough diagram of panel profile is below).

However, I just got to thinking; would there be any mileage in trying to use a bespoke uPVC window in this space instead, on the basis that suppliers of these are geared up to routinely producing customised windows. I'd need to find a suitable-looking frame profile which would match the door (= white-painted aluminium); the outside of the window would need to face inwards; it would need special glass etc.

Can anyone tell me if this is a complete non-starter; am I missing the obvious? If not, what spec of glass would I need? Or d'you reckon would it end up costing as much as a customised shower panel (surely not)?

Thanks David

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[Mark]

No they cant be cut, I had a gap wide enough to take 3 full blocks luckily, I filled the top ceiling angle with tiles.

The edge between showerdoor and glass I fitted a piece of wood embedded into tile cement, and fixed the frame to this then silicon sealed the edges. Its been up, watertight for about eight years now.

HTH

-- Mark

[Lobster]

Definitely!

Cracking idea - never thought of that one! Might well do that. I've never used those blocks - is it possible to cut them or are you stuck with using 'whole' blocks? Also - assuming you used them adjacent to a shower door, same as I would be doing; how did you attach the vertical edge of the doorframe to the glass blocks, so it was firm, safe and waterproof|?

Thanks David