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Your shower door
If you have a shower, you probably have a
shower door or a curtain. The curtains work well, but are not that
attractive, and they have a tendancy to acumulate water and mold and to
need extra cleaning, whereas the doors tend to fit better and they tend to
be easier to clean and less prone to needing to be washed. In order to
have a door on your shower, you will likely have to have the special kind
of shower made to accomodate a door entry, and these are usually designed
such that the rails, brackets, or hinges that support the door are built
into the body or frame of the nearby walls or sections of the shower, to
enable the door to fit perfectly.
For that reason, most shower door kits come with the shower itself, or if
you are building a custom shower, they come with the additional framing
required to hang them. That means that when you begin to decide on how you
want to redo your bath, you will need to make choices regarding whether
you want to have a shower with a door on it, or whether you will be
content to use a shower with no door and instead install and use a
conventional shower curtain arrangement.
In some exceptional or non traditional arrangements, you will not actually
need a shower door. For example if you have an outdoor shower at a
swimming pool or a beach house, where people bath to wash off the sand or
chlorine after swimming, and they do so in a bathing suit, you may not
have an enclosed shower. Or you may have an outdoor shower with a standard
enclosure of wood slats, with a simple hinged door like the kind you might
but on a closet in the garage or outdoors, for storing tools or something.
When you get ready to install your shower door, be sure to do it
accurately or to have a pro help you with the installation, because if you
install it correctly you will have no problems with it not fitting exactly
right, and you will be able to use it for years with no need of repairs or
adjustments.
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