Glass Shower Door Height

We have a rotating piece of glass used to vent out the steam above the door that is 1 tall then the frame of the shower itself is about five and a half inches on both the top and the bottom where you see the travertine face.

Glass shower door height.

Types of shower doors. Depending on the width and weight of the product the average height for shower doors ranges from 72 inches to 79 inches. Here are just a few of the shower doors customized and installed by glass doctor. Sliding shower doors range from 45 inches to 47 inches.

Frameless glass shower doors can hang from an overhead track or from side hinges. Recommended shower door height to have pleasant shower experience. I like a shower that s framed in verses open to the ceiling. Most shower doors are 79 inches high.

In general the width of a shower door should be between 22 inches and 36 inches. Wider sliding shower doors will be 57 inches to 59 inches wide. This frame plus the need for a slight space on each side of the shower door reduces the total shower door width in these 60 inch alcove applications to 58 inches. An accepted minimum is the glass height being at or above the bottom of the shower head.

The next benchmark for shower enclosure height is the glass height in relationship to the shower head. Since they do not have a frame the track or hinges must be attached directly to the glass or at least appear to be. Actually the hardware usually clamps the door when you tighten the screws and a rubber gasket between the hardware and the door prevents damage. There are correlations between widths and heights and glass type sometimes because of weight and sometimes because of what is most common or most generally acceptable by builders and pan tub shower manufacturers.