How To Remove Old Shower Doors From Tub

This old caulk needs to be removed before new doors.

How to remove old shower doors from tub.

Tile is wonderful just the usual floor cracks to fix. Once the doors and door channels are removed from the shower walls the caulk often remains behind because it is adhered to the shower walls. Tub needs scrub to remove bad caulk job redo. Old sink gone sigh.

I am removing metal shower doors and frame in the process of refinishing my bathtub and have found that the frame is not only held by caulking. Remove screws from the shower door frame my frame had three screws on each side and zero in the bottom track jackpot. Toilet looks like new. There actually was one small screw in the bottom track that was the reason i put off removing the doors for so long in fear of leaving a hole in the bathtub but it turned out to just be a set screw for the guide on the track.

So there were lines of rust around them. It was one of those can t do this soon enough tasks that was at the top of our list. This is the story of removing the sliding shower doors in our bathroom. Not only did they enclose the tub in a way that a soft white fabric curtain wouldn t they had seen better days.

I tried shaving it off with a blade but it is hard and i have snapped 4 blades and only removed about an 8th of the glue. Whether you are looking to update a bathroom or just get more access to the tub and shower this video will walk you through the removal of glass shower doors. Any suggestions would be helpful. Anyway my notes from the day we first looked at this great old house include this about that bathroom.

Shower doors gross says it all. Tired of your old outdated glass shower door. Shower doors maybe original but gross. When you re ready to give up your old and dated bathtub and install a more modern stand alone shower in your bathroom the first step is removing the old tub.

Here s how to easily remove it in 1 hour. How to remove a tub to install a shower.