SHOWER GLASS REPAIR

WHAT WE REPAIR

Leaking doors

Water escaping under the door, or through the closing edge, is the repair we are called to most — and the one most often misdiagnosed. A leak can come from a worn lip or bottom seal, from perished silicone, from a door that has dropped on its hinges so the seals no longer meet, or from a previous installation that was never sealed properly in the first place. Each cause has a different fix, and resealing over the wrong one just buys a few dry weeks. We find the actual cause first — our guide to a shower door leaking at the bottom shows how the diagnosis works — then repair that. Mechanical checks are completed on the day; where new sealant is involved, water testing and first use follow the sealant’s curing time, confirmed in writing at handover.

Dragging and sagging doors

A door that touches the floor, scrapes as it swings, or needs lifting by the handle to close has usually slipped on its hinges. Left alone, the dragging edge chips, the seals tear, and a hinge under uneven load wears faster every week. In most cases the fix is adjustment or hinge replacement and a re-seal, and the door swings clear again. The causes and the tests that separate a simple drop from tired hardware are in our guide to a shower door dragging or touching the floor.

Broken hinges, handles and hardware

Hinges carry the full weight of a glass door every time it moves, and they are a wearing part: they loosen, corrode, go stiff, or crack. Broken or worn hinges are a speciality of ours — replaced with hardware matched to your glass thickness and your existing finish, in chrome, black or gold, and the door re-hung and aligned afterwards.

Loose or broken handles and failed magnetic closers are repaired the same way, without damaging the glass. Our guide to broken or worn shower hinges explains how we judge adjust, repair or replace.

Seals and silicone

Seals are the consumables of a shower enclosure: the flexible profiles that meet the floor, the wall and the closing edge, and the silicone lines behind them. When they perish, shrink or peel, water escapes even though the glass and hardware are sound. Renewal means the old material comes out completely — new silicone over old, failed silicone is a repair that fails — and the new profile is matched to the gap it has to close. The full picture is in our guide to shower seals and silicone.

Sliding doors off track, rollers worn

A sliding door that sticks, judders, scrapes or jumps its track is announcing a running-gear fault: worn or seized rollers, a track packed with scale and debris, or a panel that has dropped out of line. In hard-water bathrooms the mundane version — a track channel full of grit — feels exactly like worn gear, so the diagnosis comes before any parts are ordered. Rollers are renewed as a matched set and the panel re-hung level; a damaged track is a different conversation, and we will have it honestly. See our guide to a sliding shower door not sliding, and if the whole system turns out to be finished, our sliding shower glass doors page covers its replacement.

Damaged and shattered panels

Cracked or shattered glass is the one repair that starts with safety, not diagnosis: keep people and pets away from the area, do not keep using the door, and send us a photo from a safe distance. Toughened glass that has failed is not repaired — it is replaced with a new made-to-measure panel, cut and toughened to the opening and matched to the existing installation as closely as the surviving panels allow. What to do in the first hour, and how the replacement works, is in our guide to cracked or shattered shower glass. When the glass itself has failed, our shower glass replacement service covers doors, panels and bath screens.

HOW A REPAIR WORKS

Step 1 — Send a photo on WhatsApp. A few wide shots of the enclosure, a close-up of the fault — the hinge, the seal, the roller, the leak point — and your emirate. Most diagnoses start there, and a short video of a door moving is worth a paragraph of description.

Step 2 — Honest assessment: repair or replace. Before anything is booked, we tell you which it is, and why. If the fault is an adjustment, we say so. If the enclosure has reached the point where repairs stop making sense, we say that instead — the reasoning is set out in our repair or replace guide.

Step 3 — We visit, repair and re-seal. Parts and seals are matched to your existing glass and hardware finish wherever possible, the door comes down only if the job genuinely needs it, and the work is done in one clean pass wherever the diagnosis allows.

Step 4 — Checked before we leave. The door is swung, closed and aligned, and all mechanical checks are completed on the day. Where new sealant is involved, water testing and first use follow the sealant’s curing time, confirmed in writing at handover.

CONVERSIONS

Some repairs are really the shower asking to be changed. The two conversions we are asked for most: a fixed panel with an open gap can gain a hinged door in the gap — wall-to-glass, so the open section that lets water and draughts through becomes a proper closing door; and a fully fixed screen can be converted to half-fixed plus an openable door, keeping a fixed panel where it works and adding a door where access matters. Both are judged from your photos and the existing fixings before anything is promised — if the panel or its hardware will not take the conversion honestly, we will tell you what will work instead.

REPAIR OR REPLACE? THE HONEST ANSWER

Repair wins when the glass is sound and the fault lives in the hardware, the seals or the alignment — which is most of the repair work we do. Replacement starts to win when a panel is cracked or shattered, when several systems fail at once (hinges, seals and rollers together is an enclosure ageing as a whole, not three coincidences), when the same fault returns after a correct repair, or when a previous installation was fitted so badly that repairing it means repairing someone else’s shortcuts forever. We will show you the weighing either way. And because no honest repair price exists before diagnosis, this page publishes none — what drives a repair bill, factor by factor, is explained in our guide to shower repair costs, and the figures for new glass are on the shower glass price guide.

SHOWER GLASS MAINTENANCE

Hinges, rollers and seals are moving, wearing parts — like anything mechanical, they last longer with occasional attention. Three habits cover most of it.

Rinse seals regularly: soap and scale sitting on a seal perish it from the outside in, so a rinse-down after showering genuinely extends its life. Keep tracks clear: a sliding door’s channel collects grit and scale exactly where the rollers run; cleared out periodically, the gear lasts — left packed, it grinds. Check silicone yearly: look along the seal lines for peeling, gaps or mould staining that will not wipe away; caught early, renewal is a small job, and caught late it is a leak.

If your door has started to feel different — heavier, noisier, slower to close — that is the right time to message us, before a small adjustment becomes a panel replacement.

GUIDES & ADVICE

• Shower Door Leaking at the Bottom? How to Find the Real Cause — the five real causes of a leak, and how to tell them apart before anything is resealed.
• Shower Door Dragging or Touching the Floor? Causes and Fixes — why a door drops, the tests that prove it, and when adjustment is enough.
• Broken or Worn Shower Hinges: Adjust, Repair or Replace? — how hinge faults are judged, and what each route involves.
• Shower Seals & Silicone: Stop Water Escaping Under the Door — what each seal does, how they fail, and how renewal stops the escape.
• Shower Door Maintenance: The Small Checks That Prevent Big Repairs
• Sliding Shower Door Not Sliding? Rollers, Tracks and Alignment — worn rollers, packed tracks and dropped panels: how a sticking slider is diagnosed.
• Loose or Broken Shower Door Handle: Replacement Without Damaging the Glass — tightening vs replacing, matching fixings to the holes already drilled in the glass, and the over-tightening damage to avoid.
• Cracked or Shattered Shower Glass: What to Do, and How Replacement Works — safety first, then how a replacement panel is measured and matched.
• Shower Door Won’t Close Properly? Alignment, Magnets and Gaps — why a door stops closing true, and how alignment brings it back.
• Paid for a Shower Before — and It Still Leaks: Fixing Bad Installations — how a bad previous installation is diagnosed and rescued.
• Repair or Replace? The Honest Decision Guide for an Old Enclosure — the framework for deciding when a repair stops making sense.

WHERE WE REPAIR

We repair across Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah — the same four emirates we install in, no wider and no narrower. Repairs start with photos on WhatsApp wherever you are; the visit follows the diagnosis. See shower glass in Dubai, or our Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah pages for local coverage.