Structural Requirements For Shower Glass Door

Tempered glass must be used for all glass adjacent to stairs.

Structural requirements for shower glass door.

Inline glass shower door. This is not a restriction when glass meets glass at the 135 degree angle. We recommend door widths from 28 to 36 wide for single doors and double doors where wider access desired. An inline shower door may be a single swinging door connected to a complete glass panel or full panels on either side of the door.

If your neo angle shower enclosure includes a knee wall or wall make sure that the shower door meets the structure at a 90 degree angle to accommodate the requirements of the hinges. Depending on your shower door configuration will it be attached to a wall or another glass panel we may recommend reducing the glass thickness and thus the weight of the shower door. These locations include tub and shower enclosures door sidelites large lites of glass and glazing near stairs ramps and pools. Utility meets luxury with the nautis gs completely frameless hinged swinging shower door.

To maximize water management locate your shower head so it does not spray directly onto the door. The top of a knee wall will be made of glass. If your shower includes a knee wall it is better to include in line panel in your design. Most inline shower doors consist of a glass door panel which is usually connected to one or multiple glass panels at 180º.

The irc states that stair rails must be made from safety glass as well as structural baluster panels and nonstructural infill panels. Available in a multitude of dimensions from 36 to 76 in width the nautis gs consists of a fixed glass panel with a built in two tier shelf storage system and a hinged swinging glass door panel. The other frameless shower option is 3 8 inch thick glass. The criteria for these two categories of ansi z97 1 are similar to cpsc 16 cfr 1201 for these applications but ansi z97 1 was updated in 2004 while cpsc 16 cfr 1201 was last updated in 1977.

In other words the swinging shower door cannot be notched to accommodate the knee wall. The strongest glass we offer for frameless showers is 1 2 inch architectural glass.