Can I attach a shower door to a nib wall?

CorkBhoy

We are in the process of building a house and the builder is suggesting not constructing a nib wall, which are in the plans and which runs about 8 inches over one side of the shower entrance. It doesn't bother me except I was hoping that it would mean less shower door to purchase, by attaching to the end of the nib wall. He (and others) has told me however, that the shower door will still need to be the whole length of the tray and run inside the nib.
Anyone know if this is correct? Hope I'm making sense?

tabby aspreme

You may get away with a narrower door if the nib is 100 or 200mm wide, but the door usually runs 10 to 20 mm from the outside edge of the shower tray so the nib would cover part of the tray which may not look right

CorkBhoy

tabby aspreme wrote:

You may get away with a narrower door if the nib is 100 or 200mm wide, but the door usually runs 10 to 20 mm from the outside edge of the shower tray so the nib would cover part of the tray which may not look right

Thanks for that. Tbh I never realised shower doors were so bloody expensive and am dreading the price of the bigger ones. Have 3 to get. Looks like I'll have to suck it up...

antoinolachtnai

Well, any wall costs money to build, whether it is timber-and-plaster or glass. The glass is probably not much more expensive than anything else when you add everything up (timber, plasterboard, plaster/filling, tiles, labour).

A bigger glass door isn't necessarily going to cost an awful lot more, providing it is all one piece. My suggestion would also be to see if there is a way to do this without glass doors and just have immobile panels. It might suit or it might not, depending on the space you have available.