Frameless hinge Shower Enclosures—-The New Rising Star:
According to the opening style of shower doors, shower enclosure can be divided into sliding doors shower enclosure and hinged doors shower enclosure. The traditional shower enclosures are mainly adopting the sliding opening style, which are installed with slide rails on both top and bottom edge of the door frame. However, one crucial shortcoming of these sliding doors is that, the filth and dropping objects cound be easily accumulated within the rails at the bottom slide rails, which would result in poor opening conditions and even further damage to the shower enclosure. Moreover, the slide rail itself has many problems, such as it requires more intense matinence than other types of doors and not to mention the annoying noise it made while the door is slided open, etc.
Luckly,the launch of the new generation hinged doors can help you to resolve these problems. The latest design of the hinge door shower enclosure has developed into the age of frameless hinge door style, which presents a more simple and noble out look, therefore, it has enjoyed a lasting popularity amount urban users.
The frameless hinged doors required the entire weight of the glass door to be carried by the two small hinges installed aside the door itself. Hence, the hinges need to be made to meet a very high quality standard, including the capability to prevent water corrosion and resistances to external impact. Currently, there are mainly two kinds of hinges available within the market: copper electroplated hinges and stainless steel security locked hinges. The stainless steel hinges has the best effect in terms of extenal appearance , strength, or corrosion resistances compare to the formal copper hinges. Therefore, many well-known brands normally adopt stainless steel hinges to ensure the safety of shower enclosure as well as to extend its operational life span.