Residential glass
This is the service for a cracked shower panel
Roxy Glass measures, supplies and installs frameless, semi frameless and framed shower doors and enclosures in tempered safety glass. Bathroom openings are rarely square, so the glass is measured after tiling and cut to the real opening. That is what keeps a frameless door closing properly and the seals working.
Free estimates, no obligation. Request a free shower doors and enclosures estimate.
If any of the following describes what you are looking at, this is the service that handles it.
Choosing
All three use tempered safety glass. What changes is the thickness of the glass, how it is supported, how it looks and how much it costs.
| Type | How it is built | Best suited to | Things to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frameless | Thick tempered glass carrying its own weight, fixed with hinges and clamps into the wall, no metal along the panel edges. | Open, uninterrupted look. Small bathrooms where a frame would make the space feel closed in. | Heaviest glass, so the wall fixings must go into solid backing. Needs the most accurate measuring. Highest cost. |
| Semi frameless | Slim frame around the fixed panels, free edge on the door itself. | Most of the frameless appearance at a lower cost, and more forgiving of an imperfect opening. | A visible frame remains on the fixed sections. Middle of the range on price. |
| Framed | Metal frame around every edge, thinner tempered glass inside it. | Budget conscious work, rental property, and openings that are noticeably out of square. | Frames collect water and need cleaning. Least expensive and usually the quickest to fit. |
Getting the order right
If you are managing a remodel, this sequence saves you the most common and most expensive mistake in the whole job.
All of it complete, including the shower base or tray set in its final position.
Every surface the glass will touch or sit against must be in its finished state.
Now the opening is real, we measure it including how far out of square and out of plumb it actually is, and confirm what the wall fixings will go into.
Every panel is cut, the edges are polished and any hardware cut outs are made before tempering, because tempered glass cannot be worked afterwards.
Hardware is fixed, panels are set, the door is adjusted so it closes evenly, and the seals go on.
Hardware cut outs and edge polishing are done before the glass is tempered, and tempered glass cannot be cut, drilled or trimmed afterwards. A panel measured from unfinished walls that turns out to be wrong cannot be adjusted on site. It has to be made again.
The work itself
These are the stages the job actually runs through, from the first look at the opening to the finished glass.
What happens next
Call the line for your area or send the estimate form. A photo of the damage and a rough measurement lets us tell you straight away whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement.
Glass is cut to the opening, not to a catalog size, so the measurement has to be exact. For most jobs we measure on site. For a simple pane you can measure it yourself and we will tell you how.
The estimate is free and it sets out the glass type, the thickness, whether safety glazing is required and what the work involves. Nothing is ordered until you approve it.
Standard glass is usually cut at our Newark shop. Sealed double pane units, tempered glass and made to order shapes are fabricated to your measurements, which is what sets the lead time.
We fit the glass, check that it seals and operates properly, and take the old glass and packaging away with us.
Cost
Roxy Glass does not publish a fixed price for this work, because the price depends on the opening in front of us. Estimates are free, so the fastest way to get a real number is to send the measurements and a photo, or to have us come and measure.
Where we do this work
This work is carried out from our Newark shop across Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco and southern Marin County.
Santa Clara County from San Jose out to Los Gatos and Cupertino.
San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas.
San Mateo County and the northern Santa Clara Valley.
Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Atherton, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, Foster City, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Bruno.
The Tri City area, the Hayward and Oakland corridor and the shoreline cities.
Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Alameda, Richmond.
Inland Alameda County and central Contra Costa County.
Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, Sunol, San Ramon, Danville, Alamo, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Concord, Martinez.
San Francisco, northern San Mateo County and southern Marin County.
San Francisco, South San Francisco, Daly City, San Rafael, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Corte Madera, San Anselmo, Tiburon.
Send your details on the free estimate form and the team that covers your address will answer. You can also call the Newark shop on (510) 400-7788, which is where every Bay Area job is dispatched from.
Questions
After the tiling is finished and the shower base is set, and never before. Glass is cut to the finished opening, so measuring over bare studs or unfinished tile produces glass that does not fit. This is the single most common cause of a shower door that has to be remade, and it is entirely avoidable by sequencing the trades correctly.
Frameless uses thick tempered glass that supports itself, with hinges and clamps fixed into the wall and no metal around the edges of the panels. Semi frameless keeps a slim frame on the fixed panels but leaves the door edge free. Framed has metal around every edge. Frameless costs the most, because it uses much heavier glass and needs the wall fixings to be into something solid.
It matters a great deal, and it is normal. Very few tiled openings are perfectly square or plumb. That is precisely why the glass is measured on site after tiling and cut to the real opening rather than to a nominal size. A frameless door hung in an out of square opening without allowing for it will not close evenly or seal properly.
Shower glass is tempered safety glass, which is required by code in a bathing area. Tempered glass is much stronger than ordinary glass, and when it does break it breaks into small blunt pieces rather than long sharp shards. That is why an off the shelf sheet of ordinary glass is never an acceptable substitute in a shower.
Often yes, if the hardware is still available and the remaining panels are sound. We measure the panel and match the thickness, the glass finish and the hardware cut outs. Where the hardware has been discontinued and cannot be matched, replacing the enclosure is sometimes the only route, and we will tell you which situation you are in before you commit.
A correctly measured and installed frameless enclosure controls water rather than sealing it like a submarine, and that is by design. Water is managed by the slope of the base, the overlap of the panels, the door swing and seals at the right edges. Leaks almost always come from a base that does not fall correctly, a door hung in an opening that was not measured after tiling, or missing seals rather than from frameless glass itself.
Wall mirrors, vanity mirrors, mirrored closet doors and full mirror walls, cut to size and installed.
Read about mirrors and closet doors
Sliding patio doors, French doors and bi-fold doors, including tempered glass replacement and rollers that no longer glide.
Read about glass doors and patio doors
Deck, balcony, stair and pool glass in tempered or laminated safety glass, built to guard rail requirements.
Read about glass railings and pool fences
Next step
Tell us the opening size, whether the tiling is finished, and whether you are looking at frameless, semi frameless or framed. We will tell you what your opening can take.
Estimates are free. Tell us what broke, send a photo if you have one, and we will tell you whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement before any work is booked.
Leave a message or use the estimate form and we will reply when we open.
