Frameless glass shower enclosure in a Mumbai HNI bathroom

Service Profile · Washroom Cubicle

A shower the bathroom doesn’t fight against.

Frameless 12 mm toughened glass on stainless hinges, or a slim 16 × 45 framed cubicle when the brief calls for it. Detailed for the Mumbai bathroom — humidity, salt air, soap scum and the leak no one ever quite seals.

Send the drawing

Or call Suraj — +91 98703 08481

Glass

12 mm toughened

Hinges

SS 304

Height

Up to 2.4 m

Config

Walk-in / pivot / sliding

Frame

Frameless or 16×45

Edge

Anti-leak profile

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Chapter 01 · The Problem

Three answers that
never quite sealed.

Most Mumbai bathrooms still wear a shower cubicle that aged badly. The mild-steel hinges have rusted, the silicone has yellowed, the bottom rail is collecting soap scum, and the door snags on the floor. The designer wants the frameless luxury look — and doesn’t trust the local fabricator to seal it.

In an HNI bathroom, the cubicle is the one piece of joinery the client touches every day.

The market-spec framed cubicle

Mild-steel hinges that rust within two monsoons. Yellowing silicone, a bottom rail full of crud, a door that drags by year three.

ii.

A fixed glass + shower curtain

Cheap to deliver, impossible to keep crisp. The curtain dates the bathroom the day it goes up.

iii.

A walk-in with no enclosure

Beautiful in a magazine, wet floor everywhere in real Mumbai use. The compromise the family lives with for a decade.

iv.

The fourth answer

12 mm toughened frameless glass on SS 304 hinges, with a clear-silicone vertical seam and an EPDM-sealed base. The look the moodboard asked for, sealed for a Mumbai monsoon.

Chapter 02 · How it works

Four parts.
No rust path.

Toughened glass, set on the marble

12 mm Saint-Gobain or AIS toughened glass, heat-soaked. Cut to the as-built opening, edges polished, holes drilled in the workshop — never on site against the marble.

SS 304 hinges and patch fittings

DORMA-class stainless hinges, top-and-bottom pivot or wall-mounted. Every screw, washer and patch fitting is SS — no MS plated to rust within two monsoons.

Clear-silicone vertical seam, EPDM base

No metal vertical trim against the wall — clear silicone keeps the joint tight without rusting. At the floor, an EPDM bottom seal channels water back inside the cubicle.

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No yellowing seal.
No rusting hinge.
No bottom rail full of soap scum.

The parts that fail in a typical market-spec cubicle are simply not in the system. Hand-finished on site, then a wet-test before handover.

Detail of stainless steel shower hinge on toughened glass

Chapter 03 · Material

What it’s made of.
Down to the gasket.

Specified for the Mumbai bathroom — humidity at 90% for four months a year, hard water, AC condensation, and the family that washes the glass with a microfibre every other day. Every fastener stainless. Every seam thought through.

Toughened glass panel in a frameless shower

Material 01

The glass — 12 mm toughened.

Saint-Gobain or AIS 12 mm toughened glass, heat-soak tested to remove the nickel-sulphide failure risk. Clear, low-iron or acid-etched on request. Polished edges as standard.

Material 02

The hinges — stainless SS 304.

DORMA-class wall-mount or top-and-bottom pivot. Every patch fitting, every screw, every washer is SS 304. Sea-facing flats can be specified in SS 316 — same grade as marine hardware.

Material 03

The seal — EPDM, not vinyl.

EPDM gasket at the floor, clear neutral-cure silicone at the wall. EPDM stays flexible through ten Mumbai monsoons; vinyl hardens, cracks and yellows in three. Re-siliconing is a service call, not a refit.

Chapter 04 · Where it’s installed

Real bathrooms.
Real marble. Real water.

Master-bathroom showers in Bandra, Juhu, Worli and Cuffe Parade. Guest baths, walk-in showers, hotel-style spa baths in HNI flats. The most common brief: replacing a five-year-old framed cubicle with a frameless one in a renovation, without disturbing the marble.

Master bathroom with frameless walk-in shower

Master bath · Bandra

The most common install.

Frameless 12 mm walk-in shower against the marble feature wall, replacing a tired framed cubicle in a 4 BHK Bandra renovation. EPDM-sealed base, SS 304 hinges, clear silicone seam.

Compact guest bathroom with pivot shower door

Guest bath · Worli

Pivot door, compact footprint

Spa bath · Juhu

Hotel-style walk-in

Children's bathroom with sliding glass shower

Children’s bath · Powai

Sliding pair, 1.6 m run

Podium villa · Khar

Steam-room enclosure

Rental refurb · Andheri

Slim 16×45 framed cubicle

South Mumbai · Sea-facing

SS 316 hardware specified within 1 km of the coastline

Chapter 05 · Comparison

A direct read on the
seven decisions that matter.

Market framed cubicle

Fixed glass + curtain

Aditi Frameless Cubicle

Glass thickness

8 mm in a steel frame

6 mm fixed pane

12 mm toughened, heat-soaked

Hinges

MS plated, rusts in 2 yr

No hinges

SS 304 — no rust path

Vertical wall seam

Aluminium trim — yellows

Open joint

Clear silicone, re-doable

Floor seal

Vinyl strip — cracks in 3 yr

Curtain hem on floor

EPDM gasket, 10-yr life

Look on the elevation

Heavy frame on every edge

Curtain dates the bath

Frameless, glass-only

Configurations

Sliding only, mostly

Fixed only

Walk-in / pivot / sliding

If the seal goes

Replace whole cubicle

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Re-silicone in a service call

Chapter 06 · Benefits

A bathroom detail that
ages like the marble.

Frameless or slim-framed, by brief.

Frameless 12 mm for the master bath. A 16 × 45 slim aluminium frame for the guest or rental refurb. Same workshop, same hardware standard — only the brief decides.

SS 304 hardware throughout.

Every hinge, patch fitting, screw and washer is stainless. No mild-steel plated parts that rust in two monsoons and streak the marble.

Clear silicone, not a metal trim.

The vertical wall seam is sealed in clear neutral-cure silicone. It re-does in a service call. Aluminium trim, by contrast, yellows and traps soap scum behind it.

12 mm toughened and heat-soaked.

Saint-Gobain or AIS, heat-soak tested in the factory to remove the nickel-sulphide spontaneous-fracture risk. The kind of glass spec a structural engineer is comfortable with.

Anti-leak edge profile.

EPDM gasket at the floor channels water back into the cubicle. The bathroom outside the shower stays dry — even with a child opening and closing the door at speed.

Walk-in, pivot or sliding.

A walk-in for the master bath. A pivot door for compact guest baths. A sliding pair where wall space is tight. Every configuration runs on the same SS hardware.

Detailed for the HNI bathroom.

Compatible with frameless mirror walls, niche shelving, hand-shower wall outlets and rain-shower ceiling fittings. The cubicle finishes around the joinery, not against it.

Hand-finished, site-fit.

Cut to the as-built opening — every Mumbai bathroom is out of square by a few millimetres, and the cubicle is detailed for that, not for a catalogue dimension.

Designer-direct.

Suraj reads the drawing. No franchise, no call-centre, no rep filtering technical questions. The relationship is the brand.

Chapter 07 · Common questions

The questions a designer
asks before the quote.

For an HNI master bath, frameless 12 mm is the brief almost every time. For a guest bath, rental flat or budget refurb, a 16 × 45 slim aluminium frame is the right call — same hardware standard, lower cost. We’ll suggest based on the drawing, not push the more expensive option.

Not when the bathroom slope is correct. We wet-test before handover. The base is sealed with EPDM (which stays flexible for a decade), the wall seam is clear neutral-cure silicone (which re-does in a service call), and the door has a polycarbonate water-deflector strip on the leading edge.

12–16 working days from drawing approval to handover for a typical 2 BHK master + guest bath. Glass cutting is the bottleneck — toughening and heat-soaking adds a week to any out-of-stock size.

Clear neutral-cure silicone — the kind we use — does not yellow. Acid-cure silicone (the cheap one most local fabricators apply) does. If a previous cubicle has yellowing seams, that’s the giveaway it was never the right grade.

Yes — the SS 304 pivot hinges are bi-directional as standard. The leading edge has a magnetic catch so the door closes cleanly without slamming against the frame.

Yes, with a slim aluminium frame at the top to seal the steam in, an EPDM-gasketed door, and a 12 mm toughened roof. Send the drawing — steam enclosures are a different detail, and worth specifying tightly.

Pricing depends on glass area, hardware grade and frame option. Send the drawing or the bathroom dimensions and we’ll quote within two working days. We don’t publish a per-square-foot rate — a 1.2 × 1.0 walk-in costs more per sq ft than a 1.8 × 1.0, so the number is misleading.

Send the drawing

Send the drawing.
We’ll quote by Friday.

No site-visit fee. No call-centre. No quote written before measurement. Suraj reads the drawing himself, walks the site within 48 hours of enquiry, and signs off the shop drawing before we cut a single piece of glass.

Pair the cubicle with a frameless mirror wall, a niche-light detail or matching aluminium glass shutters in the kitchen — same workshop, same finish standard, one fabricator on the snag list.

Phone

+91 98703 08481

surajgudhka@gmail.com

Web

www.aditienterprise.org

Workshop

Santacruz (East), Mumbai

aditi enterprise · Aluminium fabricators for Mumbai's interior designers, architects and HNI residences.