Installing Shower Door Without Stud

Remove the wall jamb and drill the holes for the mounting screws or wall anchors.

Installing shower door without stud.

Fit the panel into the base track. Take careful measurements dry fit your shower surround to ensure. The shower is a one piece fiberglass pre fab shower. Anyway i couldn t for the life of me find studs behind the shower stall front walls.

They will sit next to the stud but not be on it. Butt the jamb against the wall. Installing a glass shower door is a process that requires a lot of patience. The vertical bar will be in studs but most of the weight is in two collars that site on top and protrude about 1 5 inches from the vertical bar.

I assume i need a stud on at least one side of the door to screw the frame into. Install wall anchors according to instructions where there is no stud available. They had a shower installed a few months ago in their basement but were using a curtain. We show you here how to carefully install the fragile glass on tile without a hu.

Through the shower into the wall into a stud my problem is that i checked both walls and found out that the studs aren t lined up on both sides. 11 check out the finished project a bathtub and shower combo is a great addition to your bathroom and installing a direct to stud shower surround is a project that you can complete in under one day. To install a glass side panel slip the remaining jamb onto one of the panel s edges and the magnetic strike rail onto the other. If you re drilling into ceramic tile use a carbide tipped masonry drill bit.

Neighbor asked if i could help install a shower door. They got tired of the mess. Pull on them a bit to apply the same amount of pressure that the door will when it is installed. Those collars have two anchor screws.

Repeat the drilling in the opposite wall for the other wall jamb. There are studs about 5 into the stall but nothing along the front edge. Finally add a shower curtain or install shower doors to complete the enclosure. You want to make sure that everything is sturdy enough to handle the weight of the door because it is breakable.

Remove the jamb and the magnetic rail from the panel and attach the jamb. They may have something that will work. The concern is i won t really be installing this door into studs. Close the door and mark the wall along the jamb.