How to Install a Pivot Shower Door
The most common types of shower doors are sliding doors. Sliding doors can work well depending on the situation. Sometimes, the doors can become hard to slide on their track. Pivot shower doors offer the ease of being opened like other basic doors in your home and also function properly for a longer duration of time, thanks to their design.
Items to Gather:
- Measuring tape
- Threshold track
- Hacksaw
- Pivot brackets
- Silicone caulk
- Caulking gun
- Screwdriver
- Screws
- Pivot wall channels
- Pencil or Pen
- Carpenter's level
- Masking tape
- Masonry drill bit
- Drill
- Wall anchors (if applicable)
- Rubber mallet
- Magnetic door jamb
- Utility knife
- Seal strip
- End caps (for wall channels)
- Door handle
- Measure the correct length of the shower threshold and match the same measurement against the threshold track.
- Cut the threshold track at the appropriate measurement using a hacksaw.
- Put some silicone caulk onto the back of a pivot bracket and insert the bracket into the bottom edge of the threshold track.
- Put the pivot bracket on the bottom ledge of the shower and position it into place. Screw the pivot bracket secure using a screwdriver.
- Align your caulking gun with the threshold track and apply caulking along the bottom of the track.
- Install the threshold track in the appropriate position, while verifying that the high side of the threshold track faces the outside of the shower.
- Squeeze some caulking along the outside and inside edges of the threshold track. Ues your finger to smooth the caulking against the track. Allow the caulking to dry overnight.
- Position the pivot wall channels onto the bottom track to test fit them. Align each pivot wall channel so that they are straight up and down.
- Verify that the pivot wall channels are level by using a carpenter's level. Place the level against the pivot wall channels so that the level is straight across with the pivot wall channel. If the bubble in the carpenter's level is centered between the middle lines, it is level.
- Use a pencil or pen to make markings where the pivot channels are located to position them correctly later. Also, look for the drill holes in the pivot channels and mark them as well.
- Tear off several pieces of tape to cover the markings you made. Apply the tape over the markings.
- Attach a masonry drill bit into your drill and make holes over your drill marks.
- Place a wall anchor over each drill spot and lightly hammer it into the spot with a rubber mallet, if the shower frame is ceramic.
- Place the top pivot brackets at the top of the shower doors, where the doors meet the wall jamb.
- Use a screwdriver to secure the top pivot brackets to the wall jamb.
- Enlist someones help to assist you in positoning the shower door into place. Lift the door onto the pivot brackts.
- Use a screwdriver to secure the magnetic door jamb onto the opposite wall.
- Use a utility knife to cut the appropriate length of seal strip you will need for the shower door. Apply the seal into place.
- Install the end caps on to the tops of the wall channels.
- Install the shower door handle using a screwdriver. Your have now successfully installed a pivot shower door.