So I'm redoing the bathroom with a tub surround and some bypass doors for showering. I had figured on using obscured glass doors, but I might have a bead on a good deal for some doors with clear glass.
My concern is that clear glass shower doors will reveal any soap scum on them a lot quicker than obscured glass versions.
So, what kind of cleaning routine will be necessary with clear glass shower doors vs. obscured glass shower doors?
I have clear. Generally they look like obscured. I did have a maid for a while. Once she figured out they were clear she did do a good job of keeping them clean. I have no idea how. I am content with them looking obscured.
Lime away or another acidic lime removal product used often is the best way to keep them clean, but mine are frosted and the maid hasnt been her in 3 years, they are still frosted.
Shower curtains are better than sliding glass doors. No scummy tracks to deal with, and unlike a door, the curtain moves easily and completely out of the way.
I hear ya. But Dow Scrubbing Bubbles would make cleaning the glass a snap. If I had to have shower doors again I'd get the clear glass, myself. I really hate the old style glass doors.
After my builder installed glass shower door shattered into 3 million pieces when it slipped from my wet grip as I opened it (it flew into the tiled wall towel bar), I went to a local plastics shop and had them cut me a piece of plexiglass to replace it.
I chose a mottled pattern from several offerings on the display floor -
1/4 inch thick, and it was reasonably priced.
I'd never again have glass shower or tub enclosure doors - too much potential for disaster.
On Wed 21 Oct 2009 09:03:24p, Jon Danniken told us...
Use one of the various brands of "after shower" cleaning spray on your entire shower. Just spray on, no hands on cleaning, and you won't be scrubbing again, and clear glass stays clear.
When I was a child I saw the man next door being given first-aid. He had fallen through the glass doors above the bathtub. That image is still in my mind 62 years later.
Yep. I have a couple or three of the silicone squeegees and they are great.
The recommendations to use chemicals I find odd. Cleaning is a mechanical process unless you let it go, then it becomes a chemical process. I try not to use chemicals to overcome my laziness. Hmmm, that could be taken a lot of ways! ;)
A few years ago I slipped in the shower and fetched up pretty hard against the shower doors. I thought sure I was a goner, but I just bounced off of them. I'm no lightweight (250 lbs), but those doors just rang like a bell and shrugged me off. I believe they were installed in 1992, and the previous owner of my house paid $800 for them, which was a ton of money IMHO.
They're clear. I hate them. (We used to have a well, and I'm not sure I've ever seen them clean.) But I don't hate them enough to replace them, or to make a lot of effort to clean them. We squeegee and when I feel like it I scrub them.
The track, however, is not too bad, being L shaped rather than U shaped.
A few years ago I slipped in the shower and fetched up pretty hard against the shower doors. I thought sure I was a goner, but I just bounced off of them. I'm no lightweight (250 lbs), but those doors just rang like a bell and shrugged me off. I believe they were installed in 1992, and the previous owner of my house paid $800 for them, which was a ton of money IMHO.
They're clear. I hate them. (We used to have a well, and I'm not sure I've ever seen them clean.) But I don't hate them enough to replace them, or to make a lot of effort to clean them. We squeegee and when I feel like it I scrub them.
The track, however, is not too bad, being L shaped rather than U shaped.
Cindy Hamilton
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tempered doors can withstand a golfball or baseball bat hit, or running into them pretty hard. it takes something sharp like a knife or nail, or a blow to an edge, before they'll blow.
62 years ago, they didn't have laws about tempered doors or windows.
There is a difference between tempered glass and safety glass, although safety glass is also tempered.
Tempering makes it so the glass shatters into thousands of "pebbles", rather than into large pointy shards, which can be deadly.
Safety glass is tempered, but is also a sandwich with a layer of plastic in the center so that the pieces stay mostly in place, rather than flying. Auto windshield glass is like that.
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