8 Bathroom Shower Mistakes to Avoid

We only sell and install quality glass bathroom showers. Safety and structural integrity is our number one concern. And yet, over the years, we continue to be amazed at the various problems that arise after we leave a client's house. To help homeowners steer clear of trouble, we've rounded up the eight most common (and often devastating) bathroom shower mistakes you can avoid.

• No. 1. "It Was Trendy Last Year..." Classic quality never goes out of style. Before including an unalterable design element into your bathroom shower investment ask yourself if it has staying power. Funky, frosted patterned glass styles might be fun at first but then you're stuck with it forever.
• No. 2: "My Bathroom Shower Door Leaks!" Our glass bathroom showers are carefully constructed and sealed to resist water leakage, but we don't build home aquariums. That shower door will never be 100% watertight. Aiming showerhead spray at a shower door, hinge, or metal clip, especially at full pressure will quite logically produce unfavorable results. Just don't be alarmed when you discover a wet bathroom floor. Under the circumstances, this is perfectly normal.
• No. 3: "But I Used Commercial-Strength Cleaning Products" Heavy-duty cleaning agents are one of the surest ways to damage your bathroom shower glass. And they can't be good for your lungs, either. Abrasive and acidic bathroom cleaners eat into glass and corrode any glass protection application such as ClearShield. Then, your once-smooth glass surface becomes etched with porous openings that trap bacteria and stain-producing limescale.
• No. 4: "I Didn't Slam the Shower Door That Hard!" Never unleash your temper on tempered safety glass. And it probably doesn't matter if you slam in and out of the shower lightly or with the force of the Hulk, you can still achieve the same unwanted result: a broken door. Keep those showers hot and soothing, and your glass doors will thank you.
• No. 5: "I Protected the Glass When I Bought It" Our glass protection application is not an excuse to stop cleaning your bathroom shower. To preserve the "like-new" sheen of your bathroom shower glass, clean with a simple squeegee following daily use; and wipe down with a gentle cleaner every two to three weeks.
• No.6: "That Was a Towel Bar Installed Next to My Showerhead?" Towel-bar and door-pull combination handles are extremely popular and come with almost every sliding shower door kit. But they aren't installed for well-being or safety. Grabbing the towel bar or letting your wee ones hang from it can bring the whole house of cards crashing down. Not really, just the door and the handle. Towel bars and its fastening mechanisms were not manufactured to hold human weight. (And your grab bar always secures into a wall.)
• No. 7: "The Crash Came After Three Measly Chin-Ups" Your bathroom shower, even if made from architectural-quality glass, is not a piece of gym equipment, despite the handy header over the bathroom door. Our bathroom shower blueprints are meticulously constructed to safety code based on careful weights and measurements of the assembly products only. It is not to be used as support for any form of weight-bearing recreational exercise.
• No. 8: "I Didn't Know It Was Too Late to Add a Robe Hook" Accessories that mount to your glass shower panels cannot easily be changed out and absolutely can't be added on. After we temper shower glass, it can never be cut again. As soon as you try to drill the smallest hole into your bathroom shower panel, glass will shatter into a thousand oval pieces.

Now, take a look at all the things our bathroom showers can do... to transform the second most important room in your house.

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