It was very straightforward.
Removing sliding shower door with bottom glides.
Stand inside the shower.
They are plastic and aprox 3inches by 3inches in the shape of an l.
I need to replace the shower door guides that keep the shower doors from swaying.
It is an extruded aluminum rail.
Look at the bottom track.
To remove them one simply lifts the glass swing the door out of the track unhook the top rollers and bob s your uncle.
How to remove shower doors step 1.
How to evacuate swinging doors.
Step two add command strips to the back of the new shower guides.
This is the story of removing the sliding shower doors in our bathroom.
Over time the guide can crack and break due to its mainly plastic composition and the frequency that the shower is being used.
Replacement is the reverse.
I just unscrewed it with a phillips head screwdriver.
This usually small piece docks against the metal track on the sides or in the bottom.
Grasp the near door with both hands.
Look at the top track.
So i made one.
The top of the door should have wheels that ride against the top shower rail.
Step one remove the old broken door guide.
Take down the immovable.
I couldn t find a tutorial that addresses how to take off a sliding shower door that has retaining clips on the bottom track.
I headed to our local hardware store and picked up this tub and shower door bottom guide for a couple bucks here s the same one on amazon.
It s no hard task to take out a sliding door from its bracket as it doesn t take much to.
Not only did they enclose the tub in a way that a soft white fabric curtain wouldn t they had seen better days.
I bought my house 3 years ago.
This is how to r.
On my glass shower doors the bottom track simply restrains the glass from swinging.
A sliding shower door guide is a piece that fits in the bottom groove.
They re hung from rollers at the top.
This is the easiest step because removing a shower door from the frame is an uninvolved process.
Step 1 remove the moving shower door.
It is made out of aluminum with the edge that faces the inside of the shower being shorter than the one on the other side.
It was one of those can t do this soon enough tasks that was at the top of our list.
So there were lines of rust around them.