| Many of us enjoy doing projects on our own and | | | | out the frame of the shower door at the bottom or |
| installing sliding glass shower doors may be a rather | | | | the top in order for it to fit properly. If the frame of |
| simple thing to do, provided you are handy. The first | | | | the shower door is not plum, you will have leaks as a |
| thing that you really need to do is to familiarize | | | | result. |
| yourself with every step that is involved in installing | | | | The next step is to install the base track for the |
| these shower sliding glass doors, as many of them | | | | shower sliding glass doors that are going to be |
| will depend on each other in order for the entire | | | | installed. The only time whenever you will not be |
| installation to go properly. This is not only true if | | | | doing this is if you get a trackless bottom, which is |
| you're installing a frameless sliding shower door but | | | | commonly installed in order to allow handicap access. |
| also if you are installing something that is a bit more | | | | If this is true, you may still need to install a track at |
| standard. There are also some sliding glass shower | | | | the bottom, although it will not be a guide for the |
| doors that are customized for a variety of different | | | | door itself. It will simply be something that flattens |
| reasons, and these also need a customized | | | | out as the wheelchair runs over it but it will still be in |
| installation. | | | | place in order to direct the water back into the |
| The first step in installing the sliding glass shower | | | | shower pan. |
| doors is to measure everything properly in order to | | | | The top track also needs to be installed properly, and |
| make sure that you get the doors that you actually | | | | it must be installed directly above the base track in |
| need. This would not only include taking a | | | | order for everything to work properly. If you're |
| measurement at the base of the shower door, it | | | | installing a frameless sliding shower door, you're going |
| would also include taking one every 12 inches as you | | | | to need to check the manufacturer's installation |
| go up the wall. Keep in mind, not all walls are built | | | | instructions, as the upper track will be more of a |
| plum and it may be necessary for you to either shim | | | | guide instead of acting as a frame. |