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What I want to do today, is show you how to mount our Drip Rail on a glass door that is
mounted against the wall or against a panel, they’re virtually the same thing.
What I want to start with is letting you know that you can’t really even position the
Drip Rail because you can’t get past this (tiled wall).
But you could actually do it with a panel
but not against the wall. So I guess having a pivot here or having hinges on the wall
is one of the more difficult things to face in
mounting our Drip Rail. But, its not as difficult as it first appears.
All we have to do is figure out how far out we
want it and on this one, about that far. When it comes in (swings in), we want it to be
at least an inch away from the edge of the tub,
so lets take this to about 2”. And so all we’re
going to do is take a pair of scissors, we’re going to flatten this little piece out, right
here, and so I’ll put my finger on where its going
to be, and all I’m going to do is make a straight cut, and I’m going to cut it right
up to the apex that’s going to be mounted against the glass. Unfortunately, when we
mount it, I’m either going to have to leave this
piece of wax paper coating on the adhesive or we’ll peel it off and put a piece of
clear cellophane or something on it, just so it
won’t be sticky any more. We started by cutting
it straight, I’m going to bend that so it makes it go right up to the apex, and the
bottom piece, the short piece, is going to fold and
come under the long piece and it’s a little bit
more difficult to continue the bend, we have to make another cut, I hope you can see this,
but I’m going to make another cut right here.
OK, just pull that out. And now we’ll, we should be able to get right in there and bend
it over. There we are, so if the door swings
in or if the door swings out, we’ve got enough
material here to handle all of the run-off. Now this piece right here is sticking out
a little to far, so now we can go in and we can
trim that back a bit, we don’t have to trim it that much. OK, so we’ve got that piece
trimmed back, now we’ll bend those pieces back, so now there we’re able to.
OK, So if this were against the wall, when the door opens, it’ll still drain everything
to the tub. If you decide you want to swing the
door in, you’ll have ample space to do that as well. Where we bent this, right here, we’re
going to take that beyond the edge by oh about ¼” or so because usually there’s
½” gap between the glass and the wall and there’s
usually ½” gap between the glass and the top of the tub or the top of the pan.
So all we have to do is position this and we’ve got, this piece of material, this
is plastic but it works the same as glass, it’s a little
bit long. So we’ll end up having to trim that off,
we can either trim it now. If we trim it now, it might be easier, so let me just take a
marker and I’ll just mark that right there. We have to always flatten this piece out before
we do any cutting and I’m just going to cut it straight up, for now.
If we had another panel on this end, trim that on an oval like that. And I always like
to make sure there are no sharp edges, this one
we can just trim that sharp edge off right there. So now, all we do is peel the adhesive
off, and I’m going to stop right at the bend
here. This is going to be about ½” or so above the base on one end and a good 1 ½”
above, you don’t have to be precise. I’m just going to tack it down for now. We’ll
put this up. So when this pivots, it’ll pivot straight
open, and when it pivots this way, it’ll allow
that to bend, and it’ll still cover. For those who think that your shower door
should hang on the inside, you can still do that. OK, that’s all we need. And this piece,
I’m just going to tear take off, an leave that
there for now. So, if this were pivoting, you can have it open, and when it closes,
if you want it to close, it’ll close and the whole
door will hang right over the bathtub, like normal. Now, when water comes down this tray,
it’ll just continually catch on to here and
continue to drain off. That’s all we need, and that’ll make sure nothing comes out
on that end. That’s all there is to it. This needs
24 to 72 hours to set and dry. If it had a pane or
something on this side, by trimming that off, it allows this to ach right over, its not
perfectly square. So that’s all there is to it. It opens like this, and when it closes,
it’ll close like that, and cover every bit of it. But
that’s all there is to it. So, at least now, you can
keep the door wide open. Wide open would be about there, if that’s in too far you can
always just move it out a little bit, it not an issue. So there that’s how that’s done.