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Do you love or hate your glass shower walls?

jlhug
9 years ago

We are in the planning stages of a master bath remodel. I love the way glass shower walls look but fear the maintenance. How do they work in the "real world"? I doubt I could convince my DH to squeegee it.

What is your experience with keeping them spot free?

Thanks

Comments (16)

  • Babka NorCal 9b
    9 years ago

    I love ours. We have frameless, patterned glass. It gives more privacy w/o sacrificing light. I use a daily shower spray so I never have to clean them even with hard water. (same for the porcelain tile). It has been over a year now. No Squeegees, no scrubbing ever. I put my fancy glass/marble mosaic on the outside of the shower.

    Here are views from outside and looking out from inside.

    -Babka

  • Swentastic Swenson
    9 years ago

    I love ours but we do squeegee every time we shower. I haven't actually used glass cleaner on it in about a year (only because we're lazy) and it still looks fine. You actually get pretty good at it once you've been doing it awhile - squeegee now only takes about a minute extra which is nice because it gives you chance to drip dry a bit before using a towel. Towels dry faster now too! haha added bonus I guess.

    This post was edited by Swentastic on Thu, Jul 24, 14 at 9:48

  • Bunny
    9 years ago

    I squeegee every time, no exceptions. It takes me maybe 30 seconds. I've tried shower sprays and feel like I'm gassing myself inside the shower chamber. I love clear glass.

    I do grab a towel first though, even before using the squeegee.

  • lisadlu
    9 years ago

    We had glass doors in our last remodel that had Shower Guard baked into them. They stayed nice and clean but we did squeegee.

  • sochi
    9 years ago

    Love ours. We only squeegee from time to time, no problem with spots. Perhaps our glass has shower guard as well.

  • enduring
    9 years ago

    I just got new shower doors for my new remodel. I squeegee the walls and the doors, and I wipe all the caulking with a micro fiber towel after every shower. OR I just use the micro fiber towel to wipe everything down. I am at about 4 minutes. Everything stays nice and clean. I don't wipe down the shower pan thought. Its cast iron and will get periodic cleaning with a spray product.

    Hi Sochi, how is your new vacation house coming along. I don't get to the other forums much, and I haven't seen you posting on the BR forum. Glad to see you :)

    This post was edited by enduring on Thu, Jul 24, 14 at 20:37

  • sjhockeyfan325
    9 years ago

    . I am at about 4 minutes

    That's 24 hrs a year spent wiping down the shower!

  • enduring
    9 years ago

    LOL sj!

  • bbstx
    9 years ago

    I love mine. We squeegee after every shower and I also wipe down places that the squeegee misses. Our squeegee is about 16" wide, so a couple of swipes on the door and a couple more on the stationery glass and we're finished.

    I tried the spray in the last house. It wasn't effective, IMHO.

    DBIL refused to squeegee the shower door in his new house. After about 4 months it looked awful.

    If DH won't squeegee, I'd find a different material.

  • pprioroh
    9 years ago

    We have plain glass, no pattern. I never squeegee. We do have soft water and use only liquid body soap in shower. Never had a problem with deposits or issues with the glass.

    Love it as it makes shower feel much bigger, but we only have a 1 wall of glass (big swinging door and side panels) the other 3 walls are tile.

  • piscesgirl
    9 years ago

    I love it! I won't lie...they are a bit more work, however I wouldn't change my decision. Our bathroom is extreamly small and the frameless glass shower just opens the space up so much.

    Ours:
    - Plain glass
    - No "shower guard" treatment (although I did buy an aftermarket product that I put on the glass to help repel water...similar to RainX)
    - We have semi-hard water (no softener...yet!)
    - We both squeegee every time we shower (if we didn't ours probably would be spotted with water marks)
    - Timing - never timed myself, but 4-5 minutes sounds about right. Husband is quicker, but I have to admit I am more detailed...taking the extra time to wipe down with a "ShamWow' type of towel. It may be a minute more but the shower just looks "clean" when all the chrome fixtures are shiny!
    - Our shower has marble floor so we use very mild cleaning products
    - We use liquid soap (this is very important!)

    We have had our shower for 1 year. No issues although we did get some mineral build up along the plastic strip at the bottom of the shower door. I just took the plastic strip off used some liquid bar keepers friend and it was as good as new. Once we get the water softener I think that issue will hopefully go away.

  • musicgal
    9 years ago

    We have always had glass shower walls/ doors since 1986. Our new house will not have glass. No door... shaped like a squared off spiral to contain the shower sprays.

    This post was edited by musicgal on Fri, Jul 25, 14 at 16:27

  • anitaladyrose
    9 years ago

    We currently have glass sliding doors on our shower. I am not a fan. When we build, we plan to have a shower with no door, no glass. We love the walk-in showers with the design that musicgal mentions above.

  • divotdiva2
    9 years ago

    agree with AnitaLR, if you are in the planning stages, you might want to look at a curbless/doorless design. That's what we did and I LOVE it. We do squeegee the walls and dry off the fixtures to keep it looking nice, it goes really fast.

  • whoopdedeaux
    9 years ago

    Hate. Serious hate.

    HOWEVER...we have extremely hard water and I have a neurological condition that makes it difficult for me to reach overhead to squeegee each time I shower. Using body wash gels instead of bar soap helps keep things cleaner longer, but we are remodeling to get rid of the glass enclosure.

  • sjhockeyfan325
    9 years ago

    FWIW, we had a glass door (just door, everything else was tiled) in our previous home. It had the factory-installed "miracle shield". We most definitely did not (ever) squeegee. The door got cleaned bi-weekly when the cleaning lady came. We never had a problem with streaks or drips.

    Even if we did, though, I'd do a door again because before that we had a doorless shower and I'd never do that again - I was always cold.