I have never seen this. Hopefully the pros will weigh in.

What tile did you use? It’s lovely.

Thank you

60" wide and 84" tall, one piece of glass? You definitely need something to brace it, 100% agree with your contractor. As far as $200 additional to take it to the ceiling, I think that may be a stretch but.

I agree it needs support. It is why the original design is being changed to a floor to ceiling wall of glass to support it at the ceiling. However, it is a $2500 change order which is prohibitive so we are stuck with ugly braces unless we can find out how to avert the design dilemma of ugly braces .

$2500 sounds ridiculous to me as far as a change. The $200 I said above was a typo and should have said 2500.

We have 30in glass in our curbless shower which is braced with small brackets on the side and at the bottom. We also have a shower door that is only braced on the side. The work was done by a local company that specializes in shower doors. Our shower is the reverse of what you pictured with the bench and shower head on opposite walls.

Glass shower walls, even "heavy" glass and frameless and I ASSUME you are using that? Has a height tolerance at about 80 - 84 max as any reputable custom glass shop will tell you.

The 2500.00 over ten years in a house, is 250 per year to avoid UGLY and go to the ceiling as you want.

The other choice is use a door, and keep your height as is and just be frameless and hinged door at one wall.

You pay for the look you want, or you pay for the guarantee of safety.

Thank you Jan for your input. Bench removed in the shower, and the entry needs to be curbless for ADA compliance, and wheelchair/ walker accessible. We had hoped to rid ourselves of the weird hanging pole from the ceiling. It's ugly. Perhaps $2500 more is what it'll take to avoid ugly. And thanks for the amusing $250 for 10 yrs scenario. Pretty long subscription to "notugly .dot com" Wish there was another way around avoiding that hanging ugly ceiling pole besides $2500.

What do you spend on pizza take out in a year? coffee drive through.......haircuts........,manicures.....?

I'm sorry, either bite the bullet or do a DOOR to the curbless shower. You arent showing your bath layout, the shower dimensions or anything. Hard to advise beyond this true statement:

It should hurt ONCE. When you pay. It should not hurt every day you enter the bath or wherever.

Do you need a 60in wide glass? If it was 30in or maybe a bit wider it can be installed with small brackets on side and bottom.

So, don't do it frameless. Do it framed. That adds strength that wobbly framelss doesn't have. Or do a shower curtain, because glass is not friendly to ADA requirements, at all. If you ever actually need that curbless, the glass will be in the way.

The bench was removed? How did that happen without affecting the waterproofing?

I don't do manicures. Not that fancy but I value safety.

Glass is actually dangerous with an accessible shower. You can easily break it. You will never find it in a hospital or care facility.

thanks for all your opinions. We will tackle this with our glass fabrication expert. But interesting how varied the answers are here. Our designer is also an expert at ADA compliance etc so we'll get this nailed down. But I doubt it'll be what I expect.

Can you live with it until the contractor is done and call in your own glass company? For 2500, I would think your could do the whole thing in glass with a door. Also, if you didnt already, ask for the glass that doesnt leave spots.