Bathtub & Tub Shower Doors in Fraser
Swap the curtain for glass over the tub you already own. Fortune measures your Fraser tub, builds sliding panels or a swinging tub door in house, and sets it with our own crew.
Glass Over the Tub You Already Have
The main bath in a Fraser ranch is usually built around one alcove tub, and that tub is usually still hidden behind a curtain. A liner sticks to your arm, it lets water run down the outside onto the floor, and it looks worn out within months of being new. Glass changes all of that at once. Panels close the opening properly so the spray stays over the tub, and the room stops looking like it is waiting for something better. Best of all, none of it requires giving up the tub. Families in Fraser still want one for kids, for soaking, and for resale, and glass upgrades the tub instead of replacing it.
There are two directions to go, and the tub and the room decide which. Sliding panels, sometimes called bypass, ride past each other across the front of the tub, so nothing ever swings out into the floor space. That is why they are the default in compact postwar bathrooms where the vanity is only a step away. A swing or pivot tub door is the other route, a single panel hinged at one end that covers part of the opening and leaves the rest clear, which a lot of parents prefer for bathing kids. We look at your tub, your walls, and the traffic in the room, then tell you which one actually fits.
Bathtub & Tub Shower Doors, measured and built for Fraser.
Your Tub Stays
The glass mounts to the walls and to the tub deck, so the tub itself never moves and the tile around it never gets touched. For a Fraser homeowner who wants the bathroom to feel new without starting a demolition project, this is the shortest distance between where the room is now and where you want it.
Sliding or Swinging
Two panels that glide past each other keep the floor completely clear, which matters in a small bathroom. A hinged tub door leaves part of the tub open, which is easier when you are leaning over it with a kid. Both come in a full range of finishes. We will show you the difference at the measure.
Cut to the Tub Deck
The deck of your tub is what the bottom of the glass has to land on, and no two are quite the same once a house has some age on it. We measure the deck, the length of the tub, and the walls at both ends, then cut the panels to those numbers so the water stays inside instead of finding the seam.
Small Bathrooms Look Bigger Behind Glass
A curtain is a wall. Pull it across a compact Fraser bathroom and the room visually ends right there, at the edge of the tub. Clear glass does the opposite. Your eye carries all the way to the back wall of the tub surround, daylight and fixture light travel through instead of stopping, and the tile you already paid for is finally something you can see. In a postwar bath with limited square footage, that one change reads as more space without a single wall moving. It is the reason so many homeowners are surprised by how different the room feels after an install that took no tile work at all.
The care side is worth knowing up front. Metro Detroit water is hard, and on a tub enclosure the minerals like to settle where the panels overlap and along the bottom, wherever water lingers. Good hardware that wipes out easily makes a real difference, a quick pass with a cloth after showers makes more, and easy-clean glass helps the surface shed water so fewer deposits ever form. We will lay all of that out honestly at the free in-home measure. Fortune fabricates and installs every tub enclosure in house from our showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, near Fraser.
- Fits your existing bathtub
- Sliding panels or a swing door
- No tile or plumbing work
- 3/8 inch tempered heavy glass
- Easy-clean glass available
- Measured and installed in house
Common questions.
Do you install tub shower doors in Fraser?
Yes. Fortune puts glass over existing bathtubs throughout Fraser, working from our showroom at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights, which is close by. We measure your tub in your own bathroom at no charge, fabricate the panels in house, and install them with our own crew. Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 to set up the free measure.
Do I need a new bathtub to get glass doors?
No. The glass mounts to the tub deck and to the walls above it, so your existing tub stays right where it is. Nothing gets ripped out and no plumbing is opened. As long as the tub and the surround around it are sound, glass is the only part of this job. If we see a problem with the surround, we will tell you at the measure.
Sliding panels or a swinging tub door?
It depends on the room and how you use the tub. Sliding panels never swing into the floor space, which is the safer choice in a tight Fraser bathroom with a vanity right there. A hinged tub door leaves part of the opening clear, which many parents prefer for bathing kids. We walk the space with you and give you a straight recommendation.
How high do the panels go over the tub?
That gets settled at the measure. The glass needs to be tall enough to hold in the spray from your shower head and low enough that the room does not feel boxed in, and the walls above your tub set the practical limits. We take the real measurements in your Fraser bathroom and recommend a height that keeps water inside without closing the space down.
How do I keep hard water off a tub enclosure?
Give the water somewhere to go and do not let it sit. Wipe the glass down after showers, run a cloth along the bottom and where the panels overlap now and then, and pick hardware that is easy to clean out. Easy-clean glass is worth asking about, since it helps the surface release water instead of holding the mineral spots that dull older glass.
Trade the Curtain for Glass
See what glass does for your Fraser tub. Fortune measures free with no pressure at all. Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 and we will come take a look.