Every custom frameless shower we build in Miami Beach is one of two things: a frameless hinged door or a frameless bypass door. The choice is usually made for you by the bathroom. Here is how to read yours.
Hinged: the cleanest look
A hinged door is a single panel of tempered glass that pivots on hinges mounted to the wall or to a fixed panel beside it. It gives the most open look, the widest walk-in, and the fewest parts to maintain. It needs one thing: room to swing. If a vanity, a toilet or a door is inside the arc of the swing, hinged is out.
Bypass: for tight openings and tubs
A bypass door is two panels that slide past each other on a header. Nothing swings into the room, which is why it is the answer for tub enclosures, narrow bathrooms and any opening where a hinged door would hit something. Fully frameless bypass systems ride on quality finished rollers and a slim header, so it does not look like the framed sliders of the 1990s.
What Miami Beach bathrooms usually ask for
Miami Beach is condos and high-rises facing salt air and the highest wind-load zones in the county, plus Art Deco and MiMo buildings with strict exterior review. In practice that means primary baths tend to get a hinged door with a fixed panel or a full walk-in screen, and secondary baths and tub combos get bypass.
Free on-site measure
Every shower job in Miami Beach starts with a free visit. We measure the actual opening, answer your questions on the spot, and you hear back within 24 hours of asking. No obligation.
The three choices that come next
- Glass. Clear, Ultra Clear (the industry name for low iron, which removes the green cast so white tile reads white) or Frosted for privacy.
- Thickness. 3/8" or 1/2" tempered glass, decided by panel size and door span at the measure.
- Hardware finish. Quality finished hinges and clamps in Brushed Nickel, Matte Black, or Gold/Brass, brushed or polished.
No standard size kits
We do not sell kits. We field measure every opening, fabricate tempered glass to the exact measurement, set it plumb and seal it. Out-of-plumb walls, uneven curbs and odd angles are the normal condition of a real bathroom, and made-to-measure glass is how they get a tight, straight enclosure anyway.
Castilla Glass is a State Certified Glass & Glazing Contractor (FL Cert. SCC131154602) with 35+ years of industry experience, family-owned since 1991, installing factory-direct V&V Windows & Doors products with our own crews.
