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Frameless Shower Screen Cost Saving Tips

Congratulations on your decision to renovate your bathroom with a frameless shower screen! Your new enclosure is sure to add beauty to your bathroom and value to your home.

01

Standard Shower Screen Packages

Purchasing a standard pre-made shower screen package will save you lots on your renovation budget compared with ordering a custom made-to-measure screen which is a more costly and lenghty process.

02

Angles to Use

Plan for your shower to be built using 90°, 135°, or 180° angles. Most frameless shower screen hardware is designed to accommodate these angles, so planning your shower with this in mind ensures a more cost-effective installation and a properly functioning enclosure.

03

Plumb Walls & Level Floors

Walls need to be completely vertical or "plumb" and floor need to be completely horizontal or "level". In order to prevent large silicon gaps, uneven joints, and hinge "bind" the walls can't lean in any direction, be "bowed" or "bellied".

To ensure the most cost-effective outcome use pre-made panels. These panels are all cut square and is recommended that walls and floors are less than 5mm out of square.

Otherwise for the best outcome you should consider getting a custom-made panel which will be cut to follow the slopes of the walls and floors. Also, custom panels can also be made with intermac "CNC" cuts for bowed, bellied or uneven walls.

YesWall & Floor Square
NoWall Not Plumb
NoWall Not Plumb
NoFloor Not Level
NoBellied Wall
NoBowed Wall
NoUneven Wall
04

Shower Door Swing

When planning your shower design, keep in mind that Building Code states that all hinged shower doors must open outwards. If a shower doors that swing inwards only are not permitted. The shower enclosure must permit unobstructed access to a showering person in case of a fall.

Check that the shower door will not be obstructed by anything, like a toilet or vanity. If your bathroom is not suitable for a hinged shower door, consider choosing a sliding shower door.

Meets CodeInward & Outward Swing
Does Not Meet CodeInward Only Swing
05

Pre-Plan Your Renovation

Choosing a pre-made shower screen package before you start renovating your bathroom will allow you to build the shower area to suit a pre-made package and save you on ordering custom panels.

06

Mixing Custom & Pre-made Panels

We realise this is not always possible to purchase a standard pre-made shower screen package for a pre-existing bathroom and you will need to order a custom (made-to-measure) shower screen. We specialise in mixing custom panels with our pre-made panels to ensure you continue to save money.

There are couple of ways to keep the pricing of a custom-made screen down:

  1. use our standard height of 2m
  2. use our pre-made doors of 600mm wide

07

DIY Online Quote

Getting an online quote is not as hard as you may think, all you need to do is get approximate measurements of your shower area and it doesn't need to be exact. Our technicians can work with the approximate measurements and give you a estimated quote, if applicable they will try to give you options in reducing your shower screen quote.

The below tutorial will show you how easy it is...

Design Wizard Tutorial

01

Shower Screen Model

We have the most common and popular shower screen models available for selection on our online quote system, the online quote system has a limited the number of models to keep the custom shower screen quote process as simple and as user friendly as possible.

If you can't find the right shower screen model for you, please feel free to contact us and talk with one of our technicians, they have many more models available on their advanced quote system.

02

Glass Type

Choose from various glass types: standard clear glass, frosted glass, or starfire glass.

03

Upgrades & Accessories

Choose from our different shower screen accessories: handles, shelf, floor brackets, etc...

04

Size Settings

If you are not confident about technical details regarding your shower screen, than the quick size settings is best suited for you. All you need is the height of shower screen, the base measurements and let program do the rest for you.

05

Advanced Settings

Here you can change every aspect of the quote to tweak the shower screen to your technical specifications. If you are not confident about technical details skip this step and move onto the next.

TIP: Need a panel to go on top of a bath edge or short wall? Above each panel is a drop down list called Panel Style for short or dogleg panels.

06

Bathroom Wall, Floor & Tiling

To help our technicians make informative decisions regarding your quote, give us some background information regarding your walls and floors.

Plumb walls and level floors allow the use of pre-made panels which will reduce the cost of your quote.

07

Pre-production

Once a quote has been accepted and a deposit has been made, we enter into the pre-production phase of the order. In this stage we will make sure all the technical aspects of the order is confirmed before starting production.

For your order you would have choosen either: a) installation with a measure service, or b) do-it-yourself.

Measure Service

  • An installer is assigned to your order to measure your bathroom.
  • Once YSS receives the details of the measure, one of the follow may happen:
    1. there are no changes to the quote, production of the glass can begin; or
    2. there are changes to the quote, for example: a model change from a hinge door model to a sliding door model or a height change from 2000mm to 2100mm. A revised quote will be emailed to you outlining the difference between the original quote verses the installer's measurements. Once acceptance of the revised quote is received, production of the glass can begin.

Do-It-Yourself

  • A technician will draft a production drawing which will be emailed to you for confirmation.
  • If there are any changes to the production drawing you will need to advise YSS of any amendments.
  • Once the final confirmation of production drawing is submitted, production of the glass can begin. Important note, once production of the glass has began there can be no further amendments.