Glass Shower Door Installation in St. Clair Shores, MI
The people who measure your shower are the people who cut the glass and hang it. Family owned in Sterling Heights, installing custom enclosures in St. Clair Shores homes. Free in-home measure, no pressure.
Your Walls Are Not Straight
Here is something every glass installer knows and almost no homeowner thinks about. Your shower walls are not plumb. Not exactly. Tile follows the framing behind it, framing follows a house that has been standing and shifting for decades, and when you put a level against a St. Clair Shores bathroom wall you will usually find it leaning a little one way or the other. That is not a defect in your house. It is what houses do. What it means is that a boxed enclosure off a shelf will fight the room, because it was built for an opening that only exists in a catalog. Custom glass starts from the other end. We measure the opening you actually have and cut to that.
So the measure is really the whole job. Somebody stands in your bathroom with a tape and a level, reads the opening at the top, the middle, and the bottom, checks the curb, looks at where the vanity and the toilet sit, and writes down numbers that describe your shower and nobody else's. Those numbers go straight to our own shop. Glass is unforgiving about this, because once a panel is tempered it cannot be trimmed to fix a bad figure. When the same family measures, fabricates, and installs, nothing gets lost in a handoff. There is no outside installer walking into your bathroom for the first time on the day the glass shows up.
Glass Shower Door Installation, measured and built for St. Clair Shores.
Measured In Person
We come to your house, not the other way around. The opening gets read in three places, the curb gets checked, the swing or slide gets thought through against the real room, and you get a clear quote before anything is ordered. The visit is free and there is no obligation attached to it.
Cut To Your Numbers
Nothing comes off a shelf. Your panels are fabricated to the measurements taken in your bathroom, with 3/8 inch tempered as our standard heavy glass. Hardware gets matched to the weight of the panels and to the rest of the room, and there is a full range of finishes to ask about.
Set By Our Crew
Install day is our own people. They set the glass, fit and adjust the hardware, seal what needs sealing, check that the door lands true, and clean up behind themselves before they go. One company owns the result from the first measurement through the last piece of hardware.
Where Glass Fits In The Schedule
If you are in the middle of a bathroom project, the timing question is easy to get wrong, so here it is straight. Glass goes last. We measure after the tile is set and the walls are final, because the enclosure is cut to the opening as it finishes, not as it was drawn. Measuring a wall that is still going to move guarantees a fit nobody is happy with. Call earlier than that if you want to talk through styles and glass, that is fine and we like those conversations. Just know that the measurement that counts happens once the shower is genuinely done. Your tile setter finishes. Then we come in and do the glass.
St. Clair Shores sits on Lake St. Clair, and anyone who has been through an August here knows what that does to a closed-up bathroom. Humid air is slow to leave a small room, and a bathroom that stays damp is hard on everything in it. Glass handles that far better than a vinyl liner ever did, but only if it is set correctly. We seal the joints that need to be sealed and deliberately leave the gaps that let the enclosure breathe and dry out. An enclosure caulked shut on every side traps water inside itself, which is the opposite of the goal. Getting that balance right is quiet, unglamorous work, and it is exactly what a crew that does this all day is for.
- Free in-home measure
- Opening read top, middle, bottom
- 3/8 inch tempered heavy glass
- Fabricated in our own shop
- Installed by our own crew
- Sealed where it should be
Common questions.
Who actually shows up to install the glass?
We do. Fortune is family owned, and the same family that measures your shower fabricates the glass and installs it. We do not hand your bathroom to an outside crew that has never seen the opening. That means one company is accountable from the first measurement to the last screw, and you always know exactly who to call. It is the entire reason we work this way.
When in my remodel should I call you?
Call once the tile is set and the walls are final. Glass is cut to the opening exactly as it finishes, so a measurement taken before the tile goes in is a measurement of something that will change. Call earlier if you want to talk through glass and hardware options, that is welcome. The measurement that gets built from happens when the shower is truly finished.
Do you install glass shower doors in St. Clair Shores?
Yes. Our showroom is at 42624 Van Dyke Ave in Sterling Heights and St. Clair Shores is squarely in the area we cover. The free in-home measure comes to you, so there is nothing you need to do first except pick a time. Call (586) 315-8900, text (586) 800-9481, or email sales@fortuneshowerdoors.com. We are open Mon-Fri 9-5 and Sat 10-2.
Why not just buy an enclosure at the store?
Because a boxed unit is built for a perfectly square opening and very few real bathrooms are. Older St. Clair Shores homes have settled, and tile set by hand rarely finishes dead plumb. A stock enclosure meeting that wall leaves gaps that get filled with caulk and hope. Custom glass is cut to the numbers we take off your actual opening, so it closes true without the guesswork.
Do you handle the tile and plumbing too?
No. We measure, fabricate, and install shower doors, tub glass, and enclosures. Tile, plumbing, and steam generator work are separate trades, and we are not going to claim them to win a job. Your contractor or tile setter finishes the shower and then we do the glass. Being clear about that up front keeps the project moving and keeps everyone in their lane.
Ready To Book Your Measure?
Call (586) 315-8900 or text (586) 800-9481 to set up a free, no-pressure in-home measure in St. Clair Shores. Custom glass, installed by the family that built it.