Most of these homes have one or two bathrooms serving a full household, which means the enclosure is used many times a day and cannot be out of action. Both facts push the specification in the same direction: simple, robust, and quick to put right if anything fails.
A bathroom used before work by four people
A family bathroom in the morning sees heavy, rapid use, and anything that has to be operated carefully will not be.
So a door that needs lifting slightly to close, or a catch that has to be lined up, fails quickly in this setting.
The answer is a design with nothing to align: a sliding door that cannot be mis-latched, or no door at all. It is a less refined specification than we would suggest for a rarely used guest bathroom, and it is the right one here.
Hot water, and what it does to seals
Seals and gaskets in a shower used many times a day spend far more of their life hot and wet than in an occasional bathroom.
Heat is what ages a seal, so the same part fails considerably sooner in a busy household.
So we fit better seals here as standard rather than as an upgrade, and we tell you which part will need replacing first and roughly when. Knowing that a seal is a wear item, and cheap, stops it being treated as a fault with the enclosure.
Keeping the rest of the flat dry
In a busy bathroom water leaves the shower area constantly, and in a flat that means it reaches a passage or a bedroom door.
That is usually a threshold problem rather than an enclosure problem.
So we look at what happens at the bathroom doorway as well as inside the enclosure. A small threshold strip and a floor that actually falls to the drain do more to keep a flat dry than any upgrade to the glass, and they cost a fraction of it.
How the job works
- Tell us about the jobSend a few photos, rough sizes and what you need. Use WhatsApp or the form. For a repair, a short video of the door moving helps a lot.
- We call you back in about 2 minutesWe confirm what you need and a time to visit. Where we can, we give you a rough price on the call.
- We come and measureWe measure the opening and check the walls, floor and ceiling around it. Anything made to size is made to these measurements, so they must be right.
- You get a written priceIt lists each item, with GST as its own line. If anything about the job changes, we tell you before we go ahead.
- We fit itYou approve the price and pay the advance. Our own team fits the work, checks that every door and window opens and closes properly, and clears up. Most jobs are done in 3 to 4 days.
