We fabricate and install glass shower doors in Winnetka. We can provide Frameless, Semi-Frameless, or Sliding glass doors. Glass is the only trade we work in.

Winnetka homes come in all ages – century-old Georgians and Colonials, postwar traditionals and Tudors, and newer builds mixed in throughout the village. No matter your home’s age or style, we’ll custom-fit your glass doors to match.

Older homes shift and settle over the years, so bathroom walls that were once square rarely stay that way. A standard, off-the-shelf shower door often won’t fit right — it’ll bind on one side or leave a gap on the other. That’s why we come out and measure your exact opening before we cut any glass, so the door actually fits your bathroom.

We measure, fabricate, and install frameless, semi-frameless, and sliding glass shower doors, custom enclosures, and mirrors for homes throughout Winnetka and the surrounding communities.

Bungalows and Cape Cods share a feature that complicates glass work: the upstairs bathroom sits under a roofline. Whether it was original or added when the attic was finished, the ceiling slopes and the walls are short at one end.

Those openings need panels cut to the angle, and that cut is made before tempering along with every other cut. There is no adjusting it afterward. We template the slope precisely, note where the knee wall sits, and fabricate to it.

• Panels cut to the true ceiling slope and knee wall height, not a standard rectangle
• Frameless configurations for renovated, squared-up bathrooms in newer or updated homes
• Semi-frameless recommended where lakefront homes have settled and openings have drifted

The complaint we hear before arriving is usually one of three, and all three trace to the same cause.

The door drags at one corner. Or water escapes at the bottom no matter how the sweep is adjusted. Or it swings into the vanity every single time. None of these is a defective product. They are what happens when a rigid item goes into a room that has moved.

Tempered glass cannot be trimmed, planed, or scribed the way wood trim can be fitted to a wavy wall. Whatever is fabricated is final. So the answer is not a better catalog door, it is measuring the alcove as it exists today. Where the drift is significant, semi-frameless framing spans it and holds a seal. Where clearance is the real constraint, sliding glass shower doors keep the panels inside the opening and remove the collision entirely. We identify which at the visit.

Most repair calls in Winnetka come down to hardware, not tracks – hinges that have loosened on frameless doors, seals that have failed on semi-frameless framing, or a panel that needs replacing while the surrounding frame and anchoring are still sound.

The failure sequence is usually gradual. A hinge works loose from years of door swing, or a seal that once held a drifted opening starts letting water through. Some of these are fixed with adjustment or a new seal. Others need new hinges or hardware, still a small cost next to replacement. We also handle sweeps that have hardened, sliding track issues in homes that have that configuration, and single-panel glass replacement where the frame and anchoring are still sound.

Two situations call for replacing instead. Anchoring that has pulled out and damaged the wall behind it, and hardware from a discontinued line where parts genuinely cannot be sourced. We tell you which you are dealing with before you spend anything.

Custom shower doors start at $999. Glass thickness, hardware finish, and the complexity of the opening determine the final number. Semi-frameless enclosures fitted to a settled or drifted opening sit at that entry point, which covers a large share of Winnetka’s older homes. Frameless costs more because the glass is thicker and the hardware carries the full panel weight — the common choice in renovated or newer Winnetka bathrooms that have already been squared up. Angled panels for bathrooms under a roofline cost more again, since the cuts are more demanding and there is no margin once the glass is tempered. Cut-to-size mirrors are priced separately by square footage and edgework. You get one firm written number after the measurement.

Call and we schedule a free on-site measurement at your home. We check the opening top to bottom, look at clearance around the tub, capture any ceiling slope, locate structure for anchoring, and talk through which configuration genuinely suits the room and the budget.

Once you approve the quote, your glass goes into fabrication cut to your template. We call to schedule installation when it is ready. Most enclosures are set within a few hours. We remove the old shower door or curtain rod, take it away, clean up, and walk the finished enclosure with you before leaving. Silicone needs to cure before first use, and we give you the exact wait time.