Frameless shower doors are thick panes of glass attached to the wall of your shower to shield the rest of your bathroom from the water spray. They are a great investment as will surely add a modern touch to your bathroom. These doors have no metal frame around their edge; it is just clean and beveled. The glass is very heavy duty, ranging in thickness between 3/8 and 1/2 inches. Hinges or a track is used to keep the frameless door in place. The glass can be transparent, clouded, or etched to create patterns of distortion.

The first benefit of frameless shower door is their visual appeal. Minimalism is an elegant style and these doors are the appropriate ones as they have clean lines as opposed to superfluous decoration. There is no other stylish option for your shower than frameless doors. As clear glass goes with any bathroom tiles and flooring, you don’t have to worry about picking from a limited number of framing colors in hopes of matching your tiles and flooring.

While frameless shower doors are a bit more expensive than framed ones, but in the long run they are more cost effective. For one, they increase the overall value of your home. They also last four times longer than a framed door and rarely, if ever, need maintenance. There are more parts to framed door, and therefore more points at which it can fail.

Frameless shower doors are easy to clean and maintain. The easiest way to keep them looking continuously new is to quickly clean them after every shower. Spray the doors with after shower cleanser or a mild solution of water and lemon juice. Then squeeze the condensation and cleanser down the door. This should give you a streak-free finish and prevent hard water and soap deposits from building up. If you are worried about your glass shower doors becoming dirty, you can treat them with TPC surface protector, which fill the small pores that naturally occur in glass. Now, there is less area on which scum can build up.

Easy maintenance of frameless glass doors also comes from the fact there are few metallic parts. In the warm and moist environment of a shower, metal can become corrosive. Because there is so little metal on a frameless door it can be treated with zinc, a metal that prevents corrosion. This option is quite expensive in framed doors. Frameless doors are definitely the one to go in for your bathroom as they are elegant, long-lasting and easy to maintain.

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