Steam Showers · 8 installations.

[ About steam showers ]

What goes into a steam showers project.

A steam shower is not a taller ordinary enclosure — it's a sealed room, and its glass has to be engineered as one. Where a normal shower welcomes a gap at the top for airflow, a steam unit needs to trap heat and vapour, so the glass runs floor to ceiling and is sealed on essentially every edge. We close the space above the door with a fixed transom panel, and in most builds we add an operable transom vent so the enclosure can be aired out and dried after use. The performance lives in the details: door sweeps, jamb seals, and gasketed glass-to-glass and glass-to-wall joints that keep vapour off the surrounding cabinetry, mirrors and drywall. Hinges and hardware are specified for constant high humidity. Glass is ⅜″ or ½″ tempered in clear or Starphire low-iron; done right, the enclosure still reads as clean frameless glass even though it's fully sealed. The single most important thing a homeowner can do is involve the glass fabricator early — while the layout is still on paper — so the transom, ventilation cutout and header seal are coordinated with the steam generator and the waterproofing rather than fitted around finished work. We detail and fabricate every steam enclosure in-house at the Carrollton shop, and they're among our most-requested projects in Dallas, Allen and Frisco, where larger master baths increasingly build the steam unit in from the start.