Shower Doors for Sale: 5 Things to Consider When Looking For a New Shower Door

Looking for shower doors for sale?

Today’s options are sophisticated and alluring. Gone are the mouldy old shower curtain or clumsy sliding doors that never worked anyway.

Hands up if you’re a person who measures the standard of a place by the quality of its ablution facilities. We think that every bathroom, whether in a hotel, a vacation spot, or your own home, should express taste and practicality. 

You spend a lot of time in the bathroom. In addition to showering at the beginning and end of each day, teeth brushing, shaving, and skincare routines are also performed there. For many, the bathroom is the only really private place to retreat from the day’s pressure and luxuriate in a hot shower. 

Yet, these rooms are often cramped, lacking natural light, or simply a cluttered utility space.

If you can change nothing else to upgrade your bathroom, choose to look for a new shower door. 

The difference you’ll experience during your time in the shower will seem miraculous. Instead of stepping into a cubicle-like space that’s barely functional, you could feel like you’re stepping into a spa at a luxury resort.

Let’s dig into five vital factors to bear in mind when obtaining your new shower door.

1. Type of Opening

The type of opening you’ll look for when selecting shower doors depends on a few existing factors such as:

• Inline configuration – for shower space with just one opening that can accommodate swing, sliding, or folding doors
• Return configuration – for swing or bypass doors that have to sit at a 90-degree angle
• Corner configuration – either for the ultra-modern ‘rounded look made up of a few narrow panels, or where the door might have to be placed between two other panels.

This is also the point where you consider whether you are looking for a shower door to fit on your bath, or for your free-standing shower cubicle. 

2. Style & Design

This is the fun part where you can get creative and adventurous with the endless possibilities and options available. 

Let’s say you have a narrow shower stall, then you’ll probably want a pivot-style shower door. But if the space is such that there is not room enough for the door to pivot fully, you can explore the stylish folding-door option.

Ordinary baths with shower fitting can take either a sliding door on the tub or the modern simple line achieved by a single frameless glass panel extending less than halfway across the tub. If your tub is a corner unit, the curved shower doors will work as will the rounded panel style. 

The style and design you choose are up to your personal preference but there are a few basic options to keep it simple:

• Pivot/ Swing shower door
• Rolling shower door – requiring a top track
• Sliding shower door – whether one or more panels are needed

3. Finishes

Before you decide that finishes are the least of your considerations, think again. The palette of options is more diverse than when you last looked. To illustrate, here is a list of possibilities for hinges alone:

• Stainless Steel and Brushed Stainless Steel
• Satin, Polished and Brushed Nickel
• Bronze and Brushed Bronze
• Chrome
• Matte Black
• White
• Off-white
• Antique Pewter
• Burnished Copper
• Brushed Gold

That is great news because you could decide to change all the finishes in your bathroom to match the new shower door. At the very least you will be able to find a finish that blends in with what you already have.

4. Resale Value

Since a large portion of people put great store on bathrooms in a home, your selection of a good-looking shower door counts. As pointed out by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry, shower renovations, along with improving the flooring and the vanity facilities provide the highest ROI (Return on Investment).

The value of your home will certainly be increased with frameless shower doors. Buyers are always captivated by their sophisticated elegance and simple lines.

5. Easy Cleaning

Last but certainly not least, consider what will make your life easier in cleaning your new shower door. Remember that framed doors require more fastidious attention to prevent mould from growing on the frames.

Adding oil and water repellants to glass allows glass manufacturers to produce shower doors and frameless panels that are easy to clean and maintain. If you are obtaining upgraded shower doors for the hospitality industry, where cleaning is paramount, then that technology makes a lot of sense.

Whenever possible, aim for simple concepts that facilitate easy cleaning if you are installing a framed shower door.

In conclusion, creating the look you want in the space you have is not impossible. Reputable outlets and experts with solid experience can make getting new shower doors as exciting as redecorating the whole room. 

Contact us with your requirements and ideas and we’ll make a new shower door concept possible for you with state-of-the-art fittings for the finishing touches you need.