How To Seal A Shower Window

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Every month, I get a few emails request how we handled the window in our shower…

I'd like to reply—oh, la la la… that's and so slow… Wouldn't you rather ask me what I'm planning to be for Halloween?

Why is no one curious virtually that?

But instead of grilling them well-nigh their failure to ask me the truly important questions, I cobble together a response about the window.  And I promise that Soon I'll exercise a real post.

So—to the people I told that to, and never did it? I'm sorry.
At present you know what my husband deals with every day.
What takes other people one hour?  Takes me 49 years.

It causes all kinds of problems…  About of which are way more serious than unwritten web log posts.

Anyway. We have a big window in our shower…  it's not unusual in old houses.

Below is the bathroom before we began the remodel… the layout was awesome.

You can see that our ever-artistic, previous-owner applied his signature make of totally-impractical-I-found-this-in-the-trash-and-couldn't-pass-information technology-up-solution.

He covered the window with shutters. Wood shutters… because they're so easy to clean?

I will give him credit for I thing, though.  Take annotation, because this may be the Simply affair in this house that always prompts me to say anything nice about him. He used a luxury ledge tub… The side of the tub that'southward against the wall has a ledge 4″ wider than normal.

That doesn't audio like much, but it really is… especially if you're concerned with being too shut to a shower window.

Incidentally— when you commencement a blog, yous have NO IDEA that y'all need to accept 12,000 pictures of EVERYTHING.

I would forgot to take pictures for entire days, and therefore am missing huge chunks of the project… Then if this is the one thing yous most needed detailed, footstep-past-step instructions on? Sorry.

As we planned the new bathroom layout, (which involved gutting the room down to the studs, and moving the sink over to the same wall every bit the super-fancy concealed trapway toilet,) we tried rearranging the shower location.

Only the room is actually narrow, and nosotros decided there was no expert way to marshal the tub with some other wall.

Here's the window before.  Information technology was the original one, and trimmed out in wood… Please don't enquire me about the sill.  I DON'T KNOW.

We also considered putting in a smaller window…  and moving it well above the shower area.

Just in the end, I didn't want to give up the natural lite.  For some reason, I like my bathrooms to be BLINDINGLY vivid.

I'1000 actually not kidding…  I would put floodlights in, if Paul didn't stop me.

Plus?  By the time we began the bathroom remodel, I had decided that having a behemothic window in your shower is a full luxury.

What initially felt like a design-challenge is one of my favorite elements of this bathroom…  In the summertime, it feels like an outdoor shower.

If you don't have 1?  I suggest yous go hack a pigsty in the side of your firm Correct NOW.

I should say that privacy is not an issue for us, and so I get this may not work for you, merely either style, here is my not-very-technical summation of how we waterproofed the window in the shower.

I do not pretend to exist an skilful on any of this. At all.

Mostly I held things.  Or handed things…  Or provided valuable commentary that Paul could not have lived without.

I have so many good suggestions ALL THE Time.

Like what?  I'm and so glad you lot asked!
Like: all grout should be PERFECT.

And?  Guess who is the grout-inspector.
That is right.  I was Built-in FOR THIS Task.

• We (Paul) backed the subway tile in the shower with Wedi lath.
• He cut and installed the Wedi boards around the sill, continuing it effectually the window edge, right up to the frame.
• Then nosotros tiled correct up to the window.
• Nosotros used a narrow marble sill on the lesser lip.
• Remember to caulk, not grout the alter of planes.

We ordered a window with vinyl interior trim, and pebbled privacy glass.

Theoretically the water wouldn't hurt the window– information technology's but vinyl and glass.  Plus the whole matter pops out for cleaning…

Only Paul wanted to keep the water from hitting the window direct, and then to go far REALLY classy— we cut a piece of plexiglas to cover just the bottom half of the window.

It's held in identify with iv small dots of caulk. It's actually swell, because you tin can pull it out to clean it, information technology doesn't block the calorie-free, and the window stays remarkably dry.

If you lot don't have an one-time firm, you may not sympathise that sometimes the ultimate solution is unconventional…

And, there is really no mode to make plexiglas sound like anything other than how you might gear up a window in your Appalachian shack… so I won't try to convince you.

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