Structural Requirements For Shower Glass Door

If your shower includes a knee wall it is better to include in line panel in your design.

Structural requirements for shower glass door.

The other frameless shower option is 3 8 inch thick glass. The irc states that stair rails must be made from safety glass as well as structural baluster panels and nonstructural infill panels. Utility meets luxury with the nautis gs completely frameless hinged swinging shower door. Inline glass shower door.

That way you can modify the fixed panel to accommodate the knee wall instead of trying to modify the door. The top of a knee wall will be made of glass. It is this arrangement that causes the glasses to form an inline design. 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 top of your shower glass should be at least as high as the shower head. The strongest glass we offer for frameless showers is 1 2 inch architectural glass. 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. These locations include tub and shower enclosures door sidelites large lites of glass and glazing near stairs ramps and pools.

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. Tempered glass must be used for all glass adjacent to stairs. In other words the swinging shower door cannot be notched to accommodate the knee wall. 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. Most inline shower doors consist of a glass door panel which is usually connected to one or multiple glass panels at 180º.