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

Palos Park is the quietest and least dense of the Palos villages, with large wooded lots and a lot of homes that were designed one at a time rather than pulled from a subdivision plan. Bathrooms in custom-built houses follow no standard footprint, which is precisely why a catalog enclosure so rarely works here.

Every panel we install is cut for one opening. We template it in your bathroom first, because tempered glass cannot be trimmed or adjusted after fabrication.

We measure, fabricate, and install frameless and semi-frameless glass shower doors, sliding enclosures, custom panels, and mirrors for homes throughout Palos Park and the surrounding southwest suburbs.

In a tract subdivision you can predict the bathroom before you walk in. In Palos Park you cannot. A shower tucked beneath a dormer, a wall that meets at an angle, a bench set into a corner, an enclosure wrapping a tub that was chosen before the room was framed.

Those are the jobs a stock enclosure has no chance at, and the jobs where the template does nearly all the work. Every cut, including any angle or notch, has to be finished before the glass goes through tempering.

• Every panel and angle recorded separately during the template
• Cuts made for dormer slopes, angled walls, and built-in seating
• Anchor points confirmed in the wall before hardware is laid out

There is a common assumption that a spacious bathroom is a simpler glass job. It is usually the reverse.

Start with weight. Glass thickness is a structural call rather than a matter of taste, since a frameless panel supports itself with nothing framing its edges. Widen the opening and the same design needs half-inch glass where three-eighths would have sufficed, and a half-inch panel of any real size runs past a hundred pounds. That load reaches the wall through a handful of hinges, which is why anchoring into studs or purpose-set blocking is not something we treat as optional.

Then there is the number of pieces. A walk-in with a fixed panel, a door, and a corner return is three separate fabrications that have to meet cleanly where they join. Introduce a bench or a sloped ceiling and the count rises again. Nothing is adjustable once tempered, so each element gets measured on its own rather than derived from a single overall figure.

On a heavy frameless enclosure, the glass almost never fails first. The hardware does, because it is the part carrying the load every day.

The sequence is predictable. A hinge gradually drifts under panel weight and the door starts sitting low at one corner. A clamp loosens and the panel shifts a fraction out of square. A sweep hardens and water begins reaching the tile. A handle works free at its mount. Catching any of those early is cheaper, since a panel hanging out of alignment loads the remaining hardware unevenly and accelerates the next failure.

We also cut replacement glass for a single broken panel when the frame and anchoring are still sound. Where we stop is anchoring that has torn out of the wall, or hardware from a discontinued line that cannot be matched. Improvised parts holding a hundred-pound panel are not something we are willing to install.

Custom shower doors start at $999, though Palos Park projects often sit above that because of the layouts involved. Glass thickness moves the number first, since wider spans require half-inch rather than three-eighths. Panel count moves it next, because a walk-in with a fixed panel, a door, and a return is three fabricated pieces rather than one. Angled cuts for dormers and custom shapes add cost, since the fabrication allows no margin for error once tempered. Guest and secondary baths with sliding or semi-frameless enclosures land nearer the entry point. You receive one firm written figure after the on-site template.

Call and we arrange a free on-site visit to your Palos Park home. We template each panel separately, capture any ceiling slope or wall angle, verify the wall can carry the glass weight, and go through thickness, hardware finish, and edge treatment with you.

After you approve the quote, the glass is fabricated to that template. We call to schedule installation once it is ready. Our crew sets and levels each panel, seals the perimeter, takes away the old enclosure, and walks the finished shower with you before leaving. The silicone needs time to cure before first use, and we tell you exactly how long.