How to measure a glass shower door?

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How to Measure a Shower Door Opening - YouTube

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How To Measure for Shower Door - YouTube

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how to measure a frameless shower glass door - YouTube

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Answer

To measure for a glass shower door, follow these steps:

1. Decide on the desired shower door height and write it down.
2. Measure the opening width along the curb or threshold and record the measurement. Repeat this at the middle of the opening and again at the chosen shower door height.
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3. Place a level on the left wall and check if it is plumb (perfectly vertical) from the curb to the top of the enclosure. If not plumb, record the out-of-plumb measurement.
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4. Repeat step 3 for the right wall, recording any out-of-plumb measurement.
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5. Place the level on the curb or threshold. If it is not level, record the out-of-level measurement from wall to wall.
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6. If installing a floor-to-ceiling unit, measure the height at each wall and the center of the opening. Also, place the level on the ceiling and record any out-of-level measurement from wall to wall.
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7. Ensure all measurements are taken from finished surfaces like tile or acrylic walls.
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It's crucial to take accurate measurements, as glass shower doors are designed to accommodate walls that are slightly out of plumb within a specific range, typically up to 3/8 inch.

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Having precise measurements ensures a proper fit and successful installation.

Video Full Text

• 00:00 Hi this is Roger with Alyce quality shower doors. This time we want to show you how to take the measurements for the infernal shower works in case you need to provide the mission is so that we could please come actually cut the glass and shape the unit to you guys. This is a very popular layout on a shower door yoga sleep after three walls and the glasses is going to cover one of the sides different. Basically. We're going to use levels and we're going to use a measuring tape to figure out how we need to take the exact measurements. If you come here. I'm going to make a drawing just to get an idea. Let's say you're going to have one swinging door that has two inches with the handle and then we're just going to have a fixed panel that we could use to hold it either you channels or plans that something has to be discussed with every customer.

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• 01:06 So we have the opening number weather. Star blue is checking with the levels on the walls. If you notice we have different lengths of the levels. That's because it depends on the shape of the shower that we have if you have households you don't want to use a really long level for a short walk. So you want to try to use a level that is proportional to the height and length of the one set of the surface that you're measuring so we're going to do two sides first. We're going to do the bottom. These are the three sides that we need to check the levels and then I used to take to take the measurements in Australian paper. Our gonna bring it up first we want to do is lay. It flat it will be ideal if at the once.

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• 02:00 If the tile of the world are. It's making contact with the level from top to bottom that would be really nice but sometimes you're going to find out that you either have more somewhere here that sticks out and people be more difficult to measure but let's say if you just have flat time. So we lay it flat check obviously the body to see if you screaming if it's clogged or not so I just don't want to cover up with my head. The bubble right now we can tell value is not values that plumb so we need to find out how much we need to move the level from the wall to make it plumb.

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• 02:46 These are going to be about a quarter-inch. We have some plastic chains that we use when we come to take the measurements ourselves that help just make the job easier to find out how big is the gap they're color coded for us. But what you could do is just. I'll find objects that you could tell the thickness of them so you could put them in between the level and the wall and it will make it easier for you to read half is the one in this case. It's a quarter-inch but we need to that we need to put another paper so let's go back to this page. The growing that we have let's say the funnel is going to go on that side.

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• 03:36 We're going to just write down but this glass is going to be wire on the top quarter inch comfort to the bottom. Although it's the first time lecture that we check this gold use other side. This one seems to be plumb actually which is not very common that just makes things easier. This is completely they won't it is on making contact from top to bottom which is a good thing. I'm just going to just give you a brief description of what what could happen Yvonne you have something like. This say is the same shower but then the wall for some reason has a different shape is not completely square. Here say when we put a level. We find out that the level is not making contact on the top and bottom but it is making contact in the center so that means that you have some room to play with a level like this on the wall.

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• 04:39 If that's the case you get a make a drawing similar to what I just did because we're not going to have just one straight cut but maybe two depending on the levels and now just will sugar level to have a more accurate measurement measurement um. You just figure out the the gap that you have right with the write it down if it's an eighth of an inch 3/16 and weak the glass like that as well for you guys to give it a nice people. So we have two sides. We're going to do a lot of very quick which is usually very very simple because this one piece must look of the time series reading one. It's it's level across makes it easier.

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• 05:26 We're just going to put a line here. We're going to check it within the height for any forget about the levels. One thing you want to make sure is that the feature of this step it's reading. The bubble is really the same way we have it now which means that it's tilted towards the inside of the shower floor so when the water runs out from the glass is going to run it to your shower instead of creating wire leak but early because it will get up so. That's a one thing you want to make sure it's filled at the right way. So we have all the levels for this unit which is the spirit very simple program.

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• 06:11 What I mean is like great as possible because if you measure too small then you're going to have big gaps if you measure to bake your glass won't fit and it's tempered glass if you can sue me you should see that this is Reagan 58 in 3/4. You don't have to worry about how much clearance for the door and the panel and the inches because that's something we will discuss. We do take care of the deductions obviously for the hard work and then the height that varies. We have some standard heights for walk in shower 72 76 78 and 80 so all right up and you want to go and we will take it from there. This is house quality again as quality shower doors. Our website is also quality calm. You can find us on Facebook and give us a call if you have any any questions five six one. Three five three zero. Three seven four thank you.

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