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How to Fix Leaks in a Frameless Shower Door

Frameless shower doors provide a clean design for your bathroom, but without a seal around the door water can leak out easily. A frameless shower door is not designed to be exposed to the shower head’s direct spray, which can escape between the door and the adjacent glass panels. A frameless shower door also needs doorstops to keep the door from swinging into the shower, allowing water to leak out, as well as a drip rail and door sweeps to keep water from escaping under the door.

Things You'll Need

  • Shower doorstops
  • Glass cleaner
  • Microfiber cloth
  • Door sweeps
  • Measuring tape
  • Utility knife
  • Hi-bond tape
  • Scissors
  • Door drip rail
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Instructions

    • 1

      Turn on the shower and examine where the shower’s spray lands. If the spray hits the shower door, swivel the shower head so it does not spray the door, pointing the shower's spray toward another portion of the shower.

    • 2

      Install doorstops on the glass panel opposite the door’s hinges, keeping the shower door from swinging into the shower stall. Clean the glass where you wish to install the doorstops on the inside of the shower.

    • 3

      Peel off the protective strips on the back of the doorstops, exposing the adhesive. Press the doorstops onto the glass panel so they extend beyond the glass, contacting the door and stopping its progression into the shower.

    • 4

      Add sweeps, or clear vinyl strips, to the bottom of the shower door, both inside and outside of the shower stall. Measure the width of the shower door, and then trim the vinyl sweeps to the same length, using a utility knife. Cut pieces of hi-bond tape that measure the same length as the sweeps, using a pair of scissors.

    • 5

      Peel off the protective paper from one side of the hi-bond tape and press it against the top end of the sweeps. Peel off the other side’s protective paper and press the sweeps onto the bottom edge of the door.

    • 6

      Mount a drip rail onto the inside of the shower door, just above the sweep. Cut a piece of hi-bond tape that measures the same length as the drip rail. Peel off the protective paper from one side and press the hi-bond tape onto the backside of the drip rail. Peel off the protective paper from the other side of the hi-bond tape and press the drip rail against the shower door to mount it in place.