We repair shower doors across Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Doors that sag, stick, leak, or will not stay closed, plus glass replacement when a single panel breaks.

Most of what fails on a shower enclosure is not the glass. It is the hardware doing the work: hinges that drifted out of alignment, rollers off a track, a sweep that dried out and cracked, a handle pulling loose from its mount. Those are repairable, and they cost a small fraction of a new enclosure.

We service enclosures regardless of who installed them. Frameless, semi-frameless, and sliding, ours or somebody else’s.

We repair hardware, seals, tracks, and glass on frameless, semi-frameless, and sliding shower enclosures throughout Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.

Most repair calls trace back to a handful of failures, and the symptom usually points to the cause.

A door that drags at the bottom corner is almost always a hinge that has drifted or a clamp that loosened, letting the panel drop. Water on the bathroom floor after every shower is typically a failed sweep or seal, not a design flaw. A slider that jumps or sticks is a roller or track problem, often just built-up soap scum. A door that swings open on its own has lost hinge tension.

We will tell you when a repair is not worth doing, because taking the smaller job twice does not help either of us.

Repair usually makes sense when the glass is intact, the frame is solid, and the anchoring is still holding. Hardware, seals, rollers, and single-panel glass are all straightforward fixes on an otherwise sound enclosure.

Replacement is the better call when the frame is corroded through, when the anchoring has pulled out of the wall and the substrate behind it is damaged, when multiple panels are compromised, or when the enclosure is old enough that replacement parts are no longer manufactured. That last one catches people off guard. Hardware from a discontinued line can be genuinely unobtainable, and at that point a repair means fabricating a workaround that will not last.

You will get a straight answer at the visit, not a quote for whichever job is larger.

Tempered shower glass does not crack and hold. When it fails it goes all at once, breaking into thousands of small blunt fragments across the bathroom floor.

That is the safety design working as intended, and it is far better than the alternative, but it is alarming when it happens. If it happens to you: keep people and pets out of the room, wear shoes, and do not try to pull remaining fragments out of the hardware, since the pieces still in the clamps are under tension.

Spontaneous breakage is rare but real, usually caused by a nickel sulfide inclusion in the glass or by an edge chip that has been quietly stressing the panel for months. More often something struck it. Either way, we can template the opening and fabricate a replacement panel to fit the existing frame and hardware if the rest of the enclosure is sound.

Repairs are quoted per job, because the range runs from a ten-minute hinge adjustment to fabricating and setting a replacement panel. Hardware and seal work sits at the low end and is a small fraction of what a new enclosure costs. Track and roller service falls in the middle. Single-panel glass replacement costs more, since the panel has to be templated, cut, edged, and tempered like any custom piece. Parts availability affects it too, as hardware from discontinued lines can be difficult to source. We look at the enclosure, tell you what it needs, and quote it before any work starts.

Call and describe what the door is doing. Dragging, leaking, sticking, swinging open, or broken outright. That usually tells us enough to know whether it is a hardware call or a glass call, and what to bring.

We come out, look at the enclosure, and give you a quote before starting. Many hardware and seal repairs are done in the same visit. If a panel needs fabricating, we template it then and schedule the install once the glass is ready. Either way you get the assessment first, including whether repairing it is the right move at all.