How To Remove Shower Doors
A shower that uses a normal swinging style uses hinges to allow you to open and close the door.
How to remove shower doors. Removing the shower door requires disengaging the upper pivot from the door and frame so that you can remove the door from the lower pivot hole. Each door may lift out of the bottom or the entire door assembly and top rail may need to come out as one piece. Their actual attachment is usually at the top.
Once the upper pivot is out of the way the door removes from the opening with little difficulty. In some door types you can lift the doors up and out of the frame with the top rail still in place. Start at the top and keep a hand on them or lots of tape.
Check to see if your doors fall into that category and if so remove the doors and proceed to step 4 below this rail will be caulked to the wall or the tile and most likely not be otherwise anchored. Remove the top rail from the shower doors. Locate the hinges and use a screwdriver to remove them from the metal frame.