Glass Shower Door Hard To Close

Many hinges come with two sets of gaskets one for 3 8 or 10 mm and one for 1 2 or 12 mm.

Glass shower door hard to close. The hinge can slide down over time so loosening adjusting and tightening can solve the problem. Unscrew the guide at the lower edge of the sliding door. 3 open the shower door and stand a 2x4 block underneath its outer bottom corner. Like the sticking door the answer to a sagging door is to tighten the screws.

Turn the screws counterclockwise so that they are loose but do not remove them. A door that drags on the lower track will eventually do permanent damage to both the door and the track. 6 drive shims in tight to prevent door from sagging back down. If the installer used the thinner set for 3 8 thick glass the most common thickness then the glass will probably slip in the hinge at some point since the hinge plate can t be clamped down tight enough.

4 slide shims into the space between the 2x4 block and door. Tap up on door corner drive in the shims. If the sliding doors on your shower or bathtub don t glide smoothly repair them soon. Shim the door edge using a two by four and wood shims.

Be sure to brush down both sides of the track as well as help scrub out the dirt that exists in the middle move the door along the track to expose the front scrub move the door back to the closed position scrub and so on. 8 tighten all the doorframe screws and handle screws. 5 hold a wood block against bottom corner of door and tap upward with hammer. Adjust the frame of the door by loosening all of the frame screws including the handle screws.

Then tap the outer edge of the door from.