A sliding partition is the answer when a hinged door has nowhere to open into. Two full-height glass panels sit side by side. One is fixed. The other slides across it on a track at the top. Nothing swings out into the room. So this works in bathrooms where a normal door would hit the basin or the WC. The glass is toughened, which is safety glass. Prices start at ₹870 per sq ft.
When a slider is the better choice
Whenever the dry half of the bathroom is too tight for a door to swing into. This covers most small flats, and many older bathrooms where the basin sits close to the shower.
It is also worth a look if someone in the house finds a swinging door hard to use. A sliding panel needs no clear space and takes very little effort to move.
A slider needs one thing: a straight run wide enough for the fixed panel and the sliding panel side by side. If your opening is very narrow, the gap you step through can end up too small. We will tell you that at the measuring visit, not after fitting.
The track, the rollers and the glass
Two full-height panels of toughened glass, normally 10mm or 12mm, depending on the size of the opening.
The sliding panel hangs from a track fixed at the top. There is no bottom rail. This matters in a bathroom, because a floor track collects water and dirt and is hard to clean. So we leave it out.
The rollers decide how the door feels for the next several years. We fit soft-close rollers. They slow the panel as it reaches the end, instead of letting it knock against the stop. The track and the pull handle are chrome finished to match.
We seal along both walls and the floor line of the fixed panel, using bathroom-grade anti-fungal silicone.
How we run the job
Send a photo of the bathroom and the width of the opening. We usually come back the same day with a rough range.
We measure once your tiling is finished, because the glass is made to the finished tile face. At that visit we check the opening width, the wall the track will fix to, and how the glass will reach the bathroom.
You get a written price. An advance covers the materials, then the glass takes a few working days to make.
Fitting is normally a day. The track goes up first and we level it with care. A track that is even a little out will make the door drift open or closed on its own. Then the fixed panel, then the sliding panel, then the seals. Wait about a day before using the shower.
What pushes the price up
A sliding partition costs a little more than the same opening with a hinged door. The sliding set and its track cost more than a pair of hinges, and there is more to fit and set.
After that, the same things apply as anywhere else: the area of glass, the thickness, any frosting or tinting, and a black or brushed finish instead of chrome.
A hidden track, where the fittings sit inside a cover, costs more again and gives a cleaner look.
And how easy the bathroom is to reach matters. A high floor with a booked service lift takes longer than a ground floor bathroom.
