Shower glass....to the ceiling or not!

[anto172]

Hi

Does anyone have any input to whether the shower glass should go up to the ceiling or not? there will be a door that will have an opening to allow steam to escape. any ideas?

[hj]

as long as the door is not all the way to the ceiling it should be okay, as long as you can afford the glass panel.

[jadnashua]

IMPO, I wouldn't put the glass to the ceiling unless I had installed a vapor barrior beneath and it tiled the ceiling as well as the walls. Bathing the ceiling in a lot of steam during a (series) of long, hot showers would give any painted surfaces a pretty big stressful hit.

[hj]

The steam is going to end up there anyway, and the opening over the door will give it a place to escape.

[jadnashua]

As long as there's an opening, whether an opening transom, a shorter door, or from the walls not going all the way to the ceiling, you should be okay. You need an opening unless you build it as a steam shower which has a different set of build parameters.

[hj]

Even steam showers NEED a vent for safety purposes. Steam WILL NOT support life, (if it did they could not use steam to extinguish fires), and if the room is full of steam, you WILL die, (as several people in Arizona found out last year during a "steam lodge" ceremony).