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Glass Shower Doors, Tracks, and Handles

Tom Memory of Coastal Doors joins Bob to complete the installation of the glass shower doors. The heavy, safety-tempered glass doors are bolted on a track rather than hinged to eliminate mildew points in the shower. The track itself is designed to shed water with jambs that are installed over the track to eliminate leaking to the outside, and tracks that are single-surfaced and pitched to the interior so that water runs back into the shower. Elliptical, brushed-metal handles complete the look and the installation.

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" Tom memory is here from coastal doors shower door manufacturers up in Jacksonville Florida can I help you -- going to hold this while you think they're finding -- up. This has some weight to it. So this isn't nice shape. Grab bar for these shower doors has kind of like a -- radiates. Yes. Elliptical shape it screws through the glass so that it hasn't a lot of stability. Doors frameless. You don't have all the mildew points to keep clean that's interesting -- as a frameless door as secure and safe as one it's in a crane. One thing about this stores it's got three eighths inch thick heavy glass it's rigid. And it's very -- what kind of glasses safety tempered glass all right -- have to worry about crashing into it and having it break what about it falling off of attracted given -- is that -- don't think about this story shoes. Bolts that screw through the glass so that it there is no possibility of the glass slipping out of the frame gotcha so it truly is hanging in there. And then the other thing that's of interest is ease of installation is very often -- do it yourself -- will want to buy one of these things and put -- in themselves very easy to install you cut the track for the opening and jams -- so that they fit down over the track it eliminates the possibility of it leaking. And also that's nice radius on the track as well so that. All the water is going to drain back into the shower. Oh I see what you mean down at the bottom yeah because very often what you'll have down here. Is the of the channels weren't actually -- And you can get mildew growth in there with this is all just one surface. Yes very nice -- water's not gonna remain on the track and stagnate. And this is several hundred Vacek. -- this sure. Believe retails at about 350 terrific."

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