kelowna shower company

How to Find the Best Shower Company in Kelowna

November 30, 2020
Harison Pyykko

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Make your daily moment of self-care in your shower one of your day’s highlights. You can make this happen with a shower upgrade. There are many options you can choose from to improve your current shower that you don’t find enjoyment in. Do away with your old shower curtain. A shower remodeling to glass showers can make your shower routine a pleasurable experience every time. The change can transform and modernize your bathroom effectively creating an interesting area that could also be one of the major focal points in your home.

Working with a professional shower company in Kelowna is key in making your idea of a dream shower and bathroom a reality. They can guide you in planning and installing one of the best showers you can imagine. You should therefore spend some time identifying the right shower company to make the most out of your shower investment.

Finding the Right Shower Company

There’ll be quite a few glass service providers that will claim they install the best showers. Verify their claim by gathering information about them to confirm their real capability.

You can begin by asking the prospective Kelowna shower company about the following:

  • How long they have been in the business, particularly working with glass and the approximate number of shower projects they have completed
  • Provide you with references, preferably both old and new customers
  • They will likely give you a few names of customers, who you can call to ask about their experience with the shower company and the results of their job.
  • Whether they are licensed and insured
  • Check their liability insurance and workman’s compensation.
  • Their charges and the items that are included
  • The services they provide
  • Their experience with projects similar to yours
  • Give you a written estimate
  • When your project can be completed
  • Any disruptions to your daily household routine, if any

 

Check also if the shower company can work directly with your insurance company if yours is a major home glass replacement or repair. It will help bring down costs for you.

After getting all the important information about the prospective companies, you can limit your choice to the best two or three companies and compare them using your selection criteria.

Kelowna Shower Glass Company

If you are a Kelowna homeowner, you should find it easy to consider New Town Glass in your shortlist if not the leading shower company. For over 25 years, we have been in the glass business installing among other structures Kelowna shower glass. We have dealt with hundreds of projects creating the best showers there are in Kelowna and surrounding areas, providing satisfaction to homeowners, and enhancing the value of their property.

We have the best-qualified glass installers in the industry with many years of hands-on experience. Highly technically competent, they provide excellent service and customer experience. They are licensed and fully insured, friendly, and professional. They undergo specialised advanced training to be abreast of modern glass technology and installation techniques.

You have a wide range of quality glass products and design options to choose from to suit your home’s architectural style. We use state-of-art equipment and tools in executing your installation. You can check that the rates and warranty we offer are among the best in the industry.

Agalite Showers from New Town Glass

While we can install both framed and frameless doors for showers, we take pride in offering Agalite showers. They are frameless doors and shower enclosure designs that can bring out the best in your Kelowna shower glass.

We always recommend Agalite showers to let homeowners get the maximum benefits from a frameless door design. Frameless shower doors and enclosures give you the clean uncluttered look that you don’t get with both shower curtain and framed doors. They are convenient to clean and maintain. It is worth noting the tradeoffs with Agalite showers. While they give your bathroom the charm, airiness, and natural clarity of glass, Agalite showers must be installed with the correct design and accurately cut to prevent water from leaking into other areas of the bathroom. Their cost is higher owing to thicker glass and special hardware required to make the door attachment stronger. There are also intricacies involved in the fabrication of custom heavy frameless shower glass doors and enclosures.

If you can live with the tradeoffs, you get more enjoyment from your Kelowna shower glass by choosing a frameless shower door in your design. Frameless glass shower enclosures from our supplier partner Agalite can create changes in your bathroom to make it a more desirable place for relaxation.

We are committed to providing Kelowna homeowners the enjoyment, safety, and aesthetic upgrade they desire for their homes. Call us to know how we can help you and for a no-obligation consultation.

glass shower enclosure for your bathroom

Your Guide to Choosing Glass Shower Enclosures for Your Bathroom

October 27, 2020
Harison Pyykko

glass shower enclosure for your bathroom

Glass shower enclosures should be designed and installed to suit their purpose. They should provide a stylish and practical showering solution that will freshen up your space and increase relaxation.

With so many options available in the market today, choosing the right shower enclosure is not that easy. Like any other decisions you make involving investments for your home improvement, careful planning and research must be done so you end up with the best solution that will give you the most benefits.

There are many factors you should consider such as your renovation budget, types of shower glass, and finish. The cost of your glass shower will depend a great deal on the style, size, and shape of the enclosure. A custom design tub-and-shower combo and walk-in shower will be more costly than a small en suite. The quality of the glass for showers, the complexity of the shower design, and the cost of installation can impact your budget significantly.

Guide to Choosing the Perfect Glass Shower for Your Bathroom

There are six important factors to consider when choosing the perfect shower enclosure suited for your bathroom.

1. Renovation Budget

The first major consideration in any remodeling or renovation in your home is your budget. No matter what your style preferences are and how grand your plan is, you will be limited by your budget. Align your plan to your budget. This means you need to choose from among the types of shower glass with the price range that suits the amount you are willing to spend. Many glass shower styles fit in your current space. Selecting one of them is cost-effective. You need to consider in your plans not just the cost of the glass shower but also installation, which can depend on the complexity of the job and your location.

You can opt to spend a little more if your shower glass upgrade can bring dramatic transformation to your bathroom and can add value. You can consider glass with a unique texture or pattern or a custom design.

2. Bathroom Space

It is best to maintain a static footprint in your bathroom especially if you are satisfied with your bathroom configuration. You can determine the type of shower enclosure to use in your upgrade by deciding to follow your existing bathroom layout and footprint. You avoid spending more on a different shower enclosure configuration, relocating other fixtures, and extra project completion time.

Depending on your budget, you can renovate to convert your tub-and-shower combo into a walk-in glass enclosure while maintaining the existing footprint. With an added cost, you can improve your home’s value.

3. Shower Glass

There is a lot of variety to choose from when it comes to types of shower glass for your bathroom. Safety glazing should be the foremost consideration when choosing glass for showers, especially for doors. Tempered glass, the most common shower glass used in bathrooms, shatters into small pellets rather than shards when it breaks, avoiding significant injury to people.

Though not common in door glass for showers, laminated glass is a much stronger glass. It is made from at least two pieces of glass and one plastic interlayer forming a glass sandwich. The interlayer material holds the glass in place when it breaks, keeping it from falling out. The disadvantage with a glass shower that utilizes laminated glass is it is prone to lamination over time when exposed to moisture. This makes tempered glass the most preferred choice.

4. Your Decorating Style

You can have your style preference show in your choice of the perfect enclosure. You can adopt different shapes such as boxy rectangles and curved semicircles for your enclosures to highlight your bathroom’s design scheme and your aesthetic taste. If you want to bring moiré light to your bathroom, an upgrade of your existing shower by adding a glass shower enclosure can help you with your objective.

Among the options you can have include sliding, hinged, and pivot doors, bypass shower doors, and framed door options with glass thickness, typically 3/16 or ¼ inch. The common frame material is aluminum that can be painted, coated, or finished in a range of different colours. Frameless doors do not have supporting frames and are therefore made thicker like 3/8 or ½ inch, making them among the most expensive types of shower glass.

5. Shower Hardware

It is best to match hardware for your showers such as cabinet handles, towel bars, and faucets to your shower door for a more inviting space.

6. Your Bathroom’s Functionality and the Foot Traffic

If it is frequently used by many people, your shower must be designed in a way that it can withstand everyday knocks, bangs, and slams. The materials used should be able to resist wear and tear. The shower should also be easily accessible by its intended users, including older people and children.

New Town Glass is the expert that can help you toward a selection of the perfect glass shower enclosure for your style and budget. Call us for a free consultation.