How To Install A Shower Nz

What Nosotros Do

Over the years nosotros have institute at that place is a lot of defoliation as to what a "Shower Installer" is?
Why do we need one?

Our category sits somewhere between a plumber and a architect. Our company specialises in shower installation and nosotros are good at it.
New shower installations

Acrylic Lined Showers with Framed Shower doors

This is our almost common installation requirement. There is a range of shower sizes and styles for all spaces and preferences, ranging from 750 x 750mm to 1600 x 1000mm.

The shower door configurations can be: hinged, pivot, sliding, stacking, bi-fold or saloon, with heights ranging from 1830mm to 2050mm.

Color options available; white, chrome, brushed satin and black. Many framed showers are sold as a package and include everything you need from the waste to the glue and silicone.

Although acrylic lined showers seem to exist easy to install if they are installed incorrectly they can cause the greatest damage. See training

Acrylic Lined Showers with Frameless Drinking glass

An alternative to tiling your shower is a one-slice acrylic liner. The liner is adhered to the walls and to the upstand of the shower tray ready for glass installation. The acrylic liner would be stock-still to the wall where the tiles would normally be laid and is simply bachelor in white.

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Frameless Glass Showers

There are a range of frameless glass shower packages on the marketplace. Nosotros can install ALL frameless options. Are they beingness installed onto tiles? Whether they are 6mm, 8mm, or 10mm we can brand this installation process seamless. Meet grooming

Custom made Glass Showers

GSI can arrange custom made frameless shower glass for your shower. Total Shower enclosures, special detailed enclosures, designer showers or unmarried panel(southward) of glass. There are the options of chrome or black hardware, foursquare or round handle. Custom frameless shower drinking glass is swell for unusual sized enclosures where the glass tin can be measured onsite to fit perfectly. See training

Acrylic Lining for Baths

Every bit an alternative to tiles around a bath to control the splashing and wet areas y'all tin install acrylic lining around the bath and at the front of the bath chosen a bath skirt. Nosotros can arrange a custom-fabricated bath liner to the pinnacle you require if one on the market does not suit your space.

Acrylic Lining with Bath Screens Framed OR Frameless

If you are going to create a shower over a bathroom the best way to keep water in and avoid too much splashing is a bath screen. They are attached to the wall and top of the outer edge of the bath. The screens come up in framed or frameless options with variations such equally fixed panel, swing panel, sliding, fully fixed or fold back and away options.

Shower tray installations

Installing the shower tray correctly is vital to the function of your shower enclosure. The tray needs to exist level before beingness adhered firmly to the floor. A poorly installed tray means at that place will exist compromises during installation of the acrylic liner and shower doors.

If this is over looked it will touch on the life of your shower.

Technical Advice

Nosotros have a technical adept bachelor to aid with any shower complications that should arise onsite. Getting the right advise prior to purchasing or installing a shower gives you the conviction to make informed decisions. Nosotros can also assist with shower design and planning in bathrooms to ensure your installation is easily achieved. We observe solutions not bug.

Preparation

Acrylic Lined Showers with Framed Shower doors

Acrylic Lined Showers with Frameless Glass

Before we come to site the shower tray needs to be installed and plumbed in.
Your plumber will connect the waste/drainage for the shower tray, fit the piping for the shower rose and mixer on the wall then your builder fixes the gib to the wall.
Brand sure the plumbing outlet pipe is articulate of any acrylic liner shelf mouldings where necessary.
Ensure in that location is fixing in the walls to screw the shower doors to.
There should exist no paint, gib stopping, primer or resins on the gib where the liner is to be glued.
Nosotros suggest painting before we come to site and approximately 100mm inside the footprint of the shower liner and so we have 80% blank wall to glue to.
There should also be a 5 - 10mm gap betwixt the top of the upstand of the shower tray and the gib on the walls, this should not be filled with silicone or fillers of any kind.

Training

Frameless Glass Showers

Custom made Glass Showers

The site builder must set up the wall of the enclosure ready for tilers to waterproof. The floor fix out needs to suit the dimensions of the called shower. When measuring, remember to allow for the wall tile thicknes
Wall Channel installation: This is vital to know BEFORE your tiler is on site.
Earlier THE TILES: If you lot have called a system that requires the channels to be installed onto waterproofing you lot need to book us in BEFORE the tiler tiles the wall but AFTER the waterproofing has been laid.
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CHANNELS AFTER THE TILES: If the called system requires channels laid Later on tiles this means all tiling must be completed, including the silicone and grout of the wall & floor tiles BEFORE we offset installation.

What we do

What else tin we practice?

Repairs to leaking or damaged showers

You accept an existing shower installed and you have noticed at that place is a leak trickling out of your shower, or noticed a spongy wall beside, backside or below your shower. What practise you do? What can you do? Without spending thousands of dollars on renovating your entire bathroom to fix a pesky leak we can assess and repair your existing shower to the same high standards of a new shower installation with a procedure called a "rip-out and reinstall" saving the big upkeep renovations for afterwards downward the track.

If your showers not leaking but needs some TLC to bring it back to life we have variation of the "rip-out and reinstall" called a "reseal" which can involve:

Removing one-time mouldy silicone and resealing the shower with fresh make clean silicone.
Replacing tired, split up door seals with make new seals and baste strips.

If its damaged or broken parts that you require we will need the make and style of shower to source new hardware. If the shower's harm is more all-encompassing nosotros may crave a site visit to appraise repairs and discuss options to fix your shower.

Showerdome

Nosotros are certified installers of the showerdome production. Showerdome is the latest and greatest in steam prevention in your bathroom. A New Zealand designed and fabricated product, information technology is very effective in reducing steam and condensation in your bathroom and tin be fitted to well-nigh shower (existing or new) shapes and sizes. Showerdome tin exist fitted to the top of your shower and you are able to use your shower immediately after the installation. Call usa on 0800 four NO STEAM / 0800 466 78326.

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