Shower door problem

jakdublin

Hi, I've got a odd shaped shower. The tray is fine but the housing around the toilet overlaps it a bit. I don't know much about DIY stuff, but when I've looked in DIY stores, there isn't a shower door that looks like it would do the job. I've posted some pix to show what I mean. If anybody has any suggestions or knows where I can go to get the job done I'd really appreciate it.

Joey the lips

Jack i see your problem now. Perfectly understandable why its an issue.

There is a crowd in south dublin called la beck shower doors that make shower doors for such a situation. They are not cheap

What you will end up doing is buying a bifold door for the front and they will modify a side panel to fit the side.

Altenatuvly you can have a plumber modify the toilet setting to insure a normal door fits.

However if it were me i would get the door made.

I will give you a buzz to explain better tomorrow but all are free to add there suggestions.

quietsailor

QUOTE=jakdublin;70018406]Hi, I've got a odd shaped shower. The tray is fine but the housing around the toilet overlaps it a bit. I don't know much about DIY stuff, but when I've looked in DIY stores, there isn't a shower door that looks like it would do the job. I've posted some pix to show what I mean. If anybody has any suggestions or knows where I can go to get the job done I'd really appreciate it.[/QUOTE]

I had a similar problem fitting the shower door in my brother's house, in his case the tiles on one wall way overlapped the shower tray for some weird reason, it looked like someone hadn't brought the plasterboard down to floor level and then shoved the tray in under the lip of the board. Once it was tiled over it made a difference in length from that side to the corner of 14-18mm (it was a few years ago - the brain cells aren't as good as they used to be).

This particular door was a 2 sided frame had a sliding door on each side that was half the length of that side and came together at the corner. I was able to cut and modify the brackets so that one side was shorter than the other. It was a big job though, not only did I have to modify the corner brackets I had to cut off and make new door stops. The new stops had to have holes drilled and tapped for them to make it look neat. If your not an intensive DIY'er I wouldn't advise doing this.

The other thing I can suggest is to get a seperate side panel to suit one side and a door to suit the other. Depending on the color of your tiles you could buy plastic coated aluminium box/rectangular section to make up any gap in betwen the side panel and wall - remember that shower panels/doors usually have a track attached to the wall into which you push the panel, there is usually eg 10 mm here that you can use to make the side shorter or longer. Maybe you could get some different wall track that gives you more adjustment. take a look at the link below (its an english company), something like these frames, finished in white can usually be gotten in specialist plastic/aluminium suppliers. Ask a mate who is into DIY/Machinery about shops in your area
Alu frames

hey OP I came across this site trying to find a picture of a 2 sided double door frame. They are talking about being able to adjust the length of the sides to fit "troublesome installations" - sounds like yours!
http://www.flairshowers.com/capella.php["]Adjustable side panel showers[/URL]

tipperary

Looks like there might be enough room to fit a side panel against the side panel of the toilet without it intruding over the upstand on the tray. You could put a sliding door on the front. The frame of the sliding door would probably have to be cut a small bit to make it fit.