Glass shower walls and tile are the two main ways to enclose and finish a shower, and they solve different problems. Tile is the traditional surface for the wet walls themselves; glass is the transparent enclosure, and increasingly, a wall surface in its own right....
A tub-to-shower conversion is a renovation that removes a bathtub and replaces it with a walk-in shower in the same footprint; typically a 60-inch alcove. It’s one of the most popular bathroom upgrades in Ottawa because it modernizes the room, makes daily use...
A curbless walk-in shower is a shower with no raised threshold between the bathroom floor and the shower floor — you simply walk in, with the floor sloping gently toward the drain. Paired with frameless glass panels, it’s the defining look of the modern bathroom...
Spontaneous glass breakage is the sudden shattering of tempered glass without any apparent impact — a shower door that bursts into thousands of small pieces while no one is touching it. It’s a startling event, but it’s also rare, well understood by the...
A leaking shower door is usually not a glass problem — it’s a worn-out part problem. The flexible sweeps and seals that close the gaps around shower glass harden, shrink, and crack over time, letting water escape onto the bathroom floor. In most cases the fix is...
Cleaning glass shower doors means removing three different kinds of buildup — soap scum, body oils, and hard water minerals — without scratching or etching the glass. The good news: with the right routine, keeping shower glass sparkling takes less than a minute a day,...
