Bay Head, Ocean County · Frameless fixed panel
Frameless fixed panel, Bay Head primary bath
An older shingle-style home with a walk-in shower opening that leaned nearly half an inch across its height. The owners wanted no door at all — just glass.
The constraints
- The tiled jamb was out of plumb top to bottom, so a factory-cut panel would have left a tapering gap.
- A swinging door would have blocked the vanity drawer bank in a room with no space to spare.
- The stair turn to the second floor limited how large a single lite could be carried up.
- Configuration
- Single fixed panel, walk-in
- Glass
- 3/8 in. clear tempered
- Hardware
- Slim wall channel and glass-to-tile clamps
- Finish
- Brushed nickel
Finished spec
How we solved it
Templated to the wall, not to a size
The panel edge was cut to follow the actual lean of the tiled jamb, with a slim wall channel absorbing the remaining variance.
Door removed from the equation
A fixed panel with a generous walk-in gap solved the vanity clearance problem and simplified the hardware to two clamps.
Sized for the stairwell
Maximum panel dimensions were set by the stair turn measured during the template visit, before fabrication.
Photos from the job
- Close-up of the slim wall channel where the panel meets the out-of-plumb jamb
- Vanity drawer bank open, showing the clearance the fixed panel preserved
Result
The finished opening reads as one uninterrupted sheet of glass, and the drawer bank opens fully. No door means nothing to fall out of adjustment later.
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Next step
Have a similar opening?
One short form. We come out, template your finished tile, and quote the glass that actually fits.
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