How To Install A Shower Door Sweep

Carefully grasp the edge of the door sweep pulling it towards the outside of the door until the strip has come loose from the track.

How to install a shower door sweep. Put the finishing touch on your shower door installation. Step 3 buy your new sweep. Cut new sweep to length if needed. Like the sweeps and weather stripping that keep drafts from coming in around your front door sweeps for shower doors break down with age and use losing flexibility and effectiveness over time.

Open the shower door from the inside and leave it propped open. Slide the vinyl sweep back into the groove in the rail. Place end caps on the tops of the wall channels. Using the old shower door sweep as a guide head to the hardware store to buy a new shower door sweep.

Snap in door bottoms or sweeps. If the new sweep doesn t stop the leak consider recaulking around the shower door area see how to fix a shower door or checking the grout around the shower. Crimp the ends of the groove closed with pliers to hold the sweep permanently in place. The snap in door bottoms come in different designs and sometimes even the heights of the door.

Depending on the type of door sweep that is currently in use it may be necessary to unscrew the door sweep from the track. Pull the thin vinyl sweep out of the drip rail and set it aside. General rule of thumb is to replace your shower door sweeps every 1 2 years but make a point of examining them when you clean your bathroom. Attach the seal strip to the bottom of the door and cut it to the required length.

Tip keep a bathmat in front of the shower entrance to protect the floor from excess moisture and to reduce the chances of someone slipping after a shower. Cut the drip rail with a hacksaw to match the width of the door. Slide on new door sweep. Buy frameless shower door sweeps from dulles glass mirror.

You will notice that the longer the sweep is the more expensive it is as well. Determine which door bottom is needed. Round off the ends of the cut with a file. Attach the door handles and any towel bars.