Glass shower doors for Smyrna baths

Smyrna’s water still carries minerals after treatment, and they leave white spots on clear glass every time a shower dries. The Town of Smyrna’s plant draws from J. Percy Priest Lake on the Stones River, and its 2025 water quality report says it targets finished water at 55 to 75 mg/L of hardness.

Left alone on uncoated glass, that spotting builds until it won’t come off. Hard water works on the surface together with heat, humidity, soap and cleaning products, and the glass slowly turns dull. Shower Doors of Nashville is a registered Guardian ShowerGuard dealer, and ShowerGuard coated glass is made to protect an enclosure from exactly that for years. For a Smyrna shower, raise it at the consultation, since it’s chosen along with the glass before anything is ordered.

If the tile is white or very light, UltraClear is worth pricing. Ordinary glass has a slight green tint, and white tile seen through it takes on a faint green cast.

UltraClear low-iron glass has less iron in it, so it’s optically clear right to the edge whatever the size or thickness of the panel, and white tile still looks white behind it. The glass and hardware options page sets UltraClear beside clear, Rain, Satin and Obscure glass, so you can weigh how much you want to see through the door against how much you want hidden.

Smyrna went from 53,106 residents in April 2020 to 60,302 in July 2024 in Census Bureau estimates, and the same handful of choices comes up in each Smyrna bath we measure: clear or UltraClear, coated or uncoated, 3/8″ or 1/2″. Steve prices them at the free consultation.

Bypass sliders, barn door sliders and a frameless slider. A bypass slider has two glass doors rolling on concealed rollers inside a metal header, a metal jamb on each wall, a “stay clean” track along the bottom and either two towel bars or a towel bar and a knob. Its glass edges are polished rather than wrapped in metal.

A barn door slider moves one heavy panel past a fixed one on exposed rollers, and the frameless slider runs two glass doors past each other on exposed rollers. The sliding shower doors page compares them. Smyrna is 24.2 miles from the Hendersonville showroom, and a slider goes in about two to three weeks after the final measure.