New Shower enclosure issue

[rick]

I have a Neo-Angle shower tray, … imagine an oblong with corner cut at

45 degree It’s 1.2m x 0.9m

The ‘Roman’ shower door has failed, the only shower door that fits this tray is a now a ‘Roman’ glass frameless style. Ordered it and I have hit a problem

Installation is by fixing the vertical channels to the wall and you slide in the 2 glass panels (they have bonded on ends that slot into wall channel.

Then you fit a door opening bottom bar (fixed size) and slide panel ‘out of channel until tight on this bar .. and then fix everything up, (see pic 1)

The issue is the enclosure assumes the edge of tray is tight against the wall .. and then wall is tiled on top … effectively moving wall in another 10mm or so over the tray edge

My shower room has no tiles the wall is boarded floor to ceiling with Respatex shower panels. The shower tray pressed tight up against the panels, but the tray (due to the way it is manufactured) slopes in so the top is set forward by aprox 10mm. (marked in Red on sketch attached) (see pic 2.)

This means that when I try to fit the glass panels they are almost coming out of the wall profile, and could not be fixed. They have only small adjustment. This is the way room has been finished … I know fitting tray first then panelling would have been option, but the Respatex dealer advised against that.

I can't just fit glass panels further back as the glass ends of panels have to fit snug to the centre spacer bar, as this sets the door, seals, hinges etc. The manufacturer does not offer a deeper wall profile or a spacer.

I could resolve by fitting a spacer bar between wall profile & the wall … would need to about 20mm thick and as the wall profile is 1.25” wide, at least the width of that. Height around 2.0m

Anybody have a suggestion for a spacer, that would be unobtrusive (within reason) and waterproof

Alternatively, I would have to take the tray out and cut the wall to inset the tray, as it’s all plumbed in and sealed …. A damn big job.

[TimW]

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(Without examining your drawings in detail) when I last fitted an awkward shower and needed long spacers I used some strips of white UPVC such as is sold for fascias and soffits, door frames etc in various profiles. Regular thickness, totally waterproof, needs no painting, easy to cut and drill. I don't know what thickness you would find.

TW

[rick]

That is my best thought as well. My only concern was once cut is the 'core' an issue,I suppose I could silicone over the edge

[SteveW]

How far do you need to offset it? The 10mm gap shown, 15mm to give more overlap?

You can buy 25mm wide uPVC strips, with 3 sides smooth, in various thicknesses.

Alternatively you can buy rectangular section aluminium tube, which you can definitely get 20mm x 10mm and 25mm x 15mm, but I'm not sure what other sizes.