Bathtub And Tub Shower Doors In Clawson, MI
Real glass across the tub that is already in the room. Bypass panels that slide or a single swing screen, cut to your alcove and installed by our crew, so the curtain and the wet floor both disappear.
The Curtain Is The Cheapest Thing In The Room
Most Clawson houses from the 1940s and 1950s share the same hall bath: one alcove tub along one wall, a window and a vanity fighting over what floor is left, and a curtain doing the only job that really matters. Curtains stick to your arm. They billow inward. They hold water along the hem and drip it out onto the floor when you push them aside, and they hide a whole wall of tile behind a sheet of vinyl. Putting glass across the tub opening fixes every one of those at once, and it does it without touching the tub, the tile, or anything behind the wall. The tub stays. Only what stands in front of it changes.
There are two honest ways to close off a tub opening. Bypass panels ride a track at the tub deck and slide past each other, so nothing swings out into a room with no floor to give. A swing screen is a single panel at the faucet end that stops the spray while leaving most of the tub open, which makes bathing a kid or scrubbing the tub far less of a wrestling match. Which one suits your bathroom depends on the alcove width, where the fixtures sit, and how the room actually gets used. We work that out with you on site, tape in hand, before anything is cut.
Bathtub & Tub Shower Doors, measured and built for Clawson.
Cut To Your Alcove
Tub openings are narrow and rarely square, particularly in houses of this era. We measure your alcove at the deck, at mid height, and up top, then build the panels to fit that exact space. No filler strips, and no gap at one end that somebody hopes a fat bead of caulk will cover.
Water Stays In The Tub
The tub ledge is where most leaks start, so that is where the detail work goes. The track or seal sits down on the deck, the panels overlap where they should, and spray runs back into the tub instead of out onto the floor. Dry floor, dry bath mat, no puddle by the vanity.
The Room Gets Brighter
Vinyl blocks light and clear glass does not. In a small bath with one window, trading the curtain for glass lets daylight reach the far wall and puts your tile back on display. The room did not get any bigger. It just stops feeling like a closet with a tub jammed into it.
What Changes The Day The Curtain Comes Down
The first thing people notice is quiet. No rings dragging across a rod, no liner peeling off the wall and grabbing at you. The second is the floor. Once water stays where it belongs, the mat stops soaking through and the baseboard stops taking a beating, which matters in a bath this size where the tub sits close to a wood door casing. The third takes longer to register. You stop buying liners. A curtain liner is a consumable that goes cloudy and mildewed and gets thrown out again and again. Tempered glass is not. Our standard heavy glass is 3/8 inch tempered, and over a tub it feels solid every time you move it.
Hard water is the one thing worth planning around. Metro Detroit water leaves minerals on every surface it dries on, and a tub panel takes direct spray daily. Ask us about easy-clean glass when we come out, and hang a squeegee at the end of the tub. Half a minute after a shower keeps the glass looking like it did the week we set it. If you would rather see panel styles and hardware finishes in person before deciding, the showroom is at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, open Monday to Friday 9-5 and Saturday 10-2. Ask about the full range of finishes while you are standing there.
- Built to your alcove
- Sliders or a swing screen
- Sealed at the tub deck
- Heavy tempered safety glass
- Easy-clean glass on request
- Your tub stays put
Common questions.
Can I put glass on a tub that came with the house?
In most cases yes. What matters is the condition of the tub ledge and the walls around it, not how old the fixture is. Plenty of original alcove tubs in Clawson are still solid and absolutely worth keeping. We check the deck, the tile, and the alcove width during the free in-home measure and tell you straight what will work in that space.
Sliding panels or a swing screen. Which is better?
It comes down to floor space and habits. Bypass panels never swing into the room, so they win in a tight bath where the vanity or the doorway sits close to the tub. A screen leaves most of the tub open, which people with young kids or a lot of tub scrubbing tend to prefer. We will show you both against your own alcove.
Will glass make my small bathroom feel bigger?
It will feel more open, and that is not a sales line. A curtain is a wall you cannot see through hanging in the middle of a small room. Clear glass keeps the whole space visible from the doorway and lets the window light carry all the way across. The square footage does not change. The way the room reads absolutely does.
Do you take out the tub or redo the tile?
No. Tile and plumbing are other trades, and a tub enclosure does not require either one. The panels mount to the alcove walls and sit on the tub ledge you already have. If the tub and tile are in decent shape, glass is the only change the room needs to stop looking dated and stop putting water on the floor.
Do you install tub shower doors in Clawson?
Yes. Our showroom is at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, and Clawson is part of the Oakland County area we serve. Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 to set up a free in-home measure and a no-pressure quote. We measure your tub, build the glass to it, and our own crew installs it.
Trade The Curtain For Glass
Free in-home measure on your Clawson tub, no pressure attached. Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 and we will bring the options out to you.