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Ensuring Safety With Custom Shower Doors
When you have custom shower doors and enclosures designed and installed by Image Glass, that gets you off on the right foot in terms of quality and safety. But in the long term, you have to play your part in ensuring that the doors are used properly and inspected from time to time to keep that high safety standard.
For example, sliding shower doors usually suffer a little more abuse than swinging doors. Slamming them closed (as some children and teens might do) can cause doors to break, especially older ones. Newer sliding and swinging shower doors have soft-close features like kitchen cabinets do, but you can equip older models with a shower door bumper.
Some frameless shower swinging doors can slam shut, but this is often an installation issue. If your shower doors are a DIY project or the installer was not highly skilled, frameless shower doors can get “out of plumb,” which can make for a safety issue as well as making for an unpleasant use experience. If you experience even the slightest misalignment, contact your Image Glass specialists to inspect it to determine if adjustments or even new hinges are necessary.
If you’re debating between framed and non-framed shower doors, rest easy knowing that both are extremely durable. You don’t need a frame for added security, because frameless shower doors are designed to be extra heavy, but light to operate. All of today’s shower glass is tempered safety glass, so breakage is not only remote possibility, but the manner in which they break into rubble-like pieces rather than shards ensures safety. That being said, Homeowners with children need to consider the use of glass shower doors and the make sure their kids understand how to be safe in the bathroom.
At Image Glass, our expert glass designers and installers work with you to design custom shower doors that not only meet your aesthetic needs, but also your safety needs and how you live. By letting us partner with you on the design, our experienced design professionals can help you to make the best choices without any undue costs or compromises.
To learn more about how Image Glass can help you achieve beauty, efficiency and safety with custom glass shower doors and installations as part of bathroom redesigns, call us at (732) 438-8551
to speak to one of our glass specialists.
We are excited to announce Image Glass has grown & acquired Hillsborough Glass Company! Kurt is the new owner of Hillsborough Glass, which will now be known as Image Glass LLC with 2 locations- Monmouth Junction and Hillsborough. Hillsborough Glass began in 1976 with George “Chip” Christiansen. John Harenza began working for him in 1977. John took over Hillsborough Glass in 2002 and has been in the industry for 43 years. Kurt worked summers at Hillsborough Glass growing up, and started officially working at Hillsborough Glass in 2000 to learn the trade. In 2003 he went off on his own to create Image Glass LLC. in Monmouth Junction NJ. Hillsborough Glass and Image glass have always worked hand in hand over the last 20 years with Hillsborough Glass serving Somerset County and Image Glass serving Middlesex County. Even though our name is changing, you will still see the same friendly faces, as our friend John is staying on board as well as the rest of the team. We are so excited to now be servicing Somerset County with our new name Image Glass moving forward!
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