When the bathroom is renovated, many families now adopt the separation of dry and wet, which can prolong the life of the sanitary ware and prevent the occurrence of bacteria in the bathroom due to humidity.
Dry and wet separation is to install a shower door to isolate, let’s take a look at which shower door is better?
1. Which one is better for shower door?
According to the way of door switch, shower door is divided into sliding rail type and hinge type. The early shower doors were all sliding rails, and sliding rails were installed at the base and top edge of the shower room, and the shower door was embedded in the sliding rails to slide back and forth to open and close.
Since the sliding rails are easy to accumulate dirt or fall into the hard objects, it is difficult to clean up, which will make the door switch not smooth and cause damage.
Moreover, the slide rail itself has the disadvantages of short service life and large noise when pushing and pulling, so now the higher-grade shower doors have been generally upgraded to hinged.
The hinged shower door generally adopts a frameless design, with a simple and smooth appearance, which is generally welcomed.
The weight of the hinged shower door is completely carried by the hinge. Because the glass door is very heavy, the quality of the hinge is very high, and it is required to be resistant to corrosion, fatigue, and strong bearing capacity.
There are two kinds of hinges on the market: copper electroplating hinges and stainless steel die-casting hinges. Stainless steel die-casting hinges are slightly higher in terms of appearance, strength, corrosion resistance, etc., so more well-known brands often choose stainless steel. The die-cast hinge ensures the safe use of the shower room and prolongs its service life.
2. How wide is the shower door?
It is not that the thicker the glass door, the better it can prevent self-explosion. On the contrary, it is because the glass door of the shower room will move frequently. If it is made too thick, the glass will be heavier, which is not conducive to the bearing and acceptance of the shower door track. For the glass door of the shower room, the general recommended thickness of the glass door is between 6 mm and 8 mm.
If a sliding glass door is installed in the kitchen at home, it must be considered from a safety point of view. The owner of the glass shop will say that it should be 5 thick, and 8 should be too heavy to push. In fact, if it is a framed glass door, the thickness should be 5 mm. There is absolutely no problem. In fact, 6 or more pieces of glass are used. If it is a frameless hanging door, it needs to use 8 mm or 10 mm.
Of course, if the cost is not considered, from a purely safety point of view, 5+5 insulating glass is the best.
The size and thickness of common household glass doors are 900*2200mm (width*height) for a single door, which is also the most commonly used size in home decoration.
But if there are children in the house, we recommend 5+12+5 tempered glass, that is, 5 thick tempered glass, plus 12mm thick aluminum strip for sealing in the middle, plus 5 thick tempered glass, Together to make insulating glass. This is more expensive than the 5+9+5, but it is also thicker, and the broken glass will not hurt anyone.
3. Precautions for installation of shower door
a. In order to ensure the smoothness of the overall shower pulley, lubricant or peanut oil can be added appropriately.
b. When the pulley of the track-type shower room is in a loose or detached state, ask the maintenance personnel to adjust the pulley in time to ensure the effective bearing of the pulley on the movable door, and then use a paper towel dipped in peanut oil to clean the foreign objects in the track to ensure smooth sliding; avoid hard impacting activities door, so as not to cause the movable door to fall off.
c. Do not hit the glass with sharp hard objects, especially the four sides and four corners.
d. The water retaining strip of the shower room is to be attached to the floor tiles when the tiles are to be applied. The reason for this is to have a good water barrier. After the installation is complete, at this time, the entire shower room should be wiped clean.
Do not use it within 24 hours. Remember to let it sit for a while. After completion, you must also pay attention to cleaning and maintenance in future use, so as to create a relaxing bathing environment.
e. Special attention should be paid to the bathroom glass partition, because of the particularity of the bathroom, it is in close contact with water every day. Therefore, before laying the floor tiles, it is necessary to install the sewer pipe and install the floor drain to avoid inconvenience to the future life.
The above is the introduction of which shower room door is good for you, and how wide it is. After reading it, do you have a certain understanding of the shower room door?
