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Hi There Chris
This is helpful and answers my question around use of silicone without clamps or clips to hold the glass. My only final question is, when you are installing the glass and applying the wet silicone to the tile vertical edge, the ceiling horizontal edge and the shower sill horizontal edge, on both sides. The silicone is wet and if the glass shifts couldn’t it fall out? How do you hold the glass in place long enough for the silicone to dry and harden so it will stay firmly in place?
thanks
chris
Hi Chris,
Thanks for your question – I’m glad you asked. Let me start by saying that I never practice this, and would never recommend it. In my blog post I was simply pointing out that it is possible to do this safely – not that I would do it myself. The point you make about holding the glass in place while the silicone cures is a good one… That would be a problem that would need to be solved in order for this to work. The only situations where I have ever installed shower glass using only silicone (and no hardware) have been in applications where a slot has been engineered into the substrate. In other words, the tile may have been installed in such a way that the glass was able to set into a recess made to hold it in place. In those cases we used silicone in addition to the slot provided to secure it.
I hope this clears things up,
-Chris