Early Saturday evening the better-half asked if I wanted to go to Lowe’s to buy a new shower door. Um yeah, let me put on some shoes.
We have had a problem with the shower door since we’ve lived in the house. It leaks and as you’ll see in one of the pictures below, the wood trim is ruined. Fixing the trim is a project for another day. Soon. Just like installing a new tub and kicking the always-broken-very-disgusting-jetted-tub-that-wasn’t-installed-correctly-to-begin-with-and-is-really-just-a-breeding-ground-for-creatures-from-the-black-lagoon-when-the-jets-run to the curb. I digress, but that tub sucks and I know you’ve heard it before, but I really hate that tub. It is useless.
While at Lowe’s we discovered we could install a by-pass door instead of the craptastic and quite useless hinged door model. Wow. What a concept. The by-pass door is designed to NOT leak. We purchased a Kohler and it has some sort of coating on the inside of the glass so it doesn’t get funky. I’m thinking of buying a shower squeegee so we can wipe it down frequently.
I will say that Kohler designed their shower door kit wisely. The parts were laid out well. They were all marked and we didn’t have to sort the thousands of screws, bolts and thingys. Their installation instructions were clear and written in English with accurate drawings. Nicely done. And, you know what I mean about written in English, right? Not written in some other language and translated by machine into what turns into some hackneyed version of English. Which is generally amusing, but not really something I have time for when we’re trying to install something so it doesn’t leak.
Before:
It is very hard to take pictures in our bathroom. The room is long but narrow and the above is about as good of a shot as I could get of the door.
Mid-point:
You can see that we’re in the midst of cleaning the other caulk off the horrible shower surround. Next house: tile in the shower, not plastic. I’ve complained for years that I could never get the shower clean because the dimwits who spruced the house up before we bought it caulked over mold and mildew. We chipped out all the old caulk and I cleaned as well as I could. Even though it isn’t perfect at least there aren’t huge ribbons of black funk.
Finished door:
That little tag on the outside of the shower base? Should have been removed when it was installed. We were finally able to get it off of there. Mineral spirits not only breaks down old caulk, it also makes tags very easy to remove.