We fabricate and install glass shower doors in Beverly. Frameless enclosures, semi-frameless doors, sliding glass panels, custom shapes, and cut-to-size mirrors. Glass is the only trade we work in.

Beverly has some of the most architecturally distinctive housing anywhere in Chicago. The ridge is lined with large single-family homes, and the neighborhood holds a remarkable concentration of Prairie School and early twentieth century architecture, much of it within the Ridge Historic District.

Beautiful houses, difficult bathrooms. Most of these homes have baths that were added or reworked long after construction, tucked into whatever space was available, in buildings that have had a century to settle. We template your opening in the room, then cut the glass to it.

We measure, fabricate, and install frameless and semi-frameless glass shower doors, sliding enclosures, custom panels, and mirrors for homes throughout Beverly, Morgan Park, and the surrounding South Side neighborhoods.

Bathrooms in Beverly’s older housing were rarely part of the original plan. They were carved out of closets, hall ends, and space under stairs as indoor plumbing became standard, then reworked again in subsequent decades.

What that leaves is openings that are narrow, oddly proportioned, or cut by a roofline, sitting in a house that has settled for a hundred years. Add tile laid over original tile in many of them and the dimension shifts again. We template these as they actually are and frequently recommend semi-frameless, since the framing spans variance no frameless panel can absorb.

Two situations turn up repeatedly on our Beverly schedule, and they lead to different recommendations.

The first is a historic home with a bathroom that has never been fully gutted. The framing is original, the walls have moved, and the opening measures differently at the ceiling than at the floor. Semi-frameless glass shower doors are usually the honest answer, because the perimeter framing holds a seal where a frameless panel would leave a gap you would notice every morning.

The second is the same house after a full renovation. New framing, new substrate, walls rebuilt true. Frameless becomes entirely viable, and it is often what people want after investing in the tile behind it. Putting metal framing across a feature wall somebody just paid for makes little sense.

There is also the third-floor situation, which is particular to houses like these. Dormered baths under a sloped roof need panels cut to the angle, and that cut has to be made before tempering.

A good share of our Beverly calls are repairs rather than replacements, often on enclosures installed during renovations done fifteen or twenty years ago.

The usual list: rollers worn through on sliding units, hinges that drifted and dropped a frameless panel out of square, sweeps that hardened and now let water onto the tile, handles pulling loose at the mount. Each of those runs a small fraction of what a new enclosure costs, and most are handled in one visit.

Where we tell people to stop is when the anchoring has pulled out and damaged the substrate behind it, or when the hardware line has been discontinued and parts genuinely cannot be sourced. In an older home, that second situation comes up more than you would expect. Building a workaround around unobtainable parts buys a few months at best, and you should hear that before paying for it.

Custom shower doors start at $999. Glass thickness, hardware finish, and the complexity of the opening set the final number. Sliding and semi-frameless enclosures over a standard alcove sit at that entry point, which describes many secondary baths in these homes. Frameless costs more because the glass is thicker and the hardware carries the full panel weight. Angled panels for dormered or sloped-ceiling bathrooms cost more again, since the cuts are more demanding and there is no margin for error once the glass is tempered. You get one firm written number after the on-site template, and it holds through installation.

Call and we schedule a free on-site measurement at your Beverly home. We template the opening, check how far the walls have drifted, locate structure for anchoring, and talk through whether frameless, semi-frameless, or sliding glass shower doors suit the room. In a historic home we will often recommend semi-frameless, and we will explain exactly why rather than just quoting it.

Once you approve the quote, your glass goes into fabrication cut to that template. We call to schedule installation when it is ready. Our crew sets and levels the panels, seals the perimeter, removes the old enclosure, and walks the finished shower with you. Silicone needs to cure before the shower gets used, and we give you the exact wait time.