Shower Door Repair — Dallas–Fort Worth
Shower Door Leaking at the Bottom — Repair Across Dallas–Fort Worth
A shower door leaking at the bottom is nearly always a sweep, a seal or a slope problem rather than a glass problem. Water finds the lowest gap it can, and on a frameless enclosure that gap is under the door.
Which of the three it is changes the repair completely, so it is worth establishing before anything is replaced. We look at where the water lands, not only where it escapes.
Three places the water is actually getting out
The sweep is a wear part
That clear strip along the lower edge is vinyl, and vinyl goes hard. Once it stiffens it stops flexing against the curb, and the contact line it held becomes a channel. Sweeps are sized to the glass thickness and the gap beneath, so a replacement is measured, not guessed.
The corner usually shows it first
Water running down the hinge stile collects at one corner before anywhere else, which is why people so often describe the leak as coming from a single point. That seal meets three surfaces at once — glass, curb and jamb — and it is the first joint to open up.
Sometimes the curb is the culprit
A shower curb should slope back into the tray. Where tile was set flat, or slightly the wrong way, water sits on the curb and travels out under the door however good the sweep is. That is a tiling fault presenting as a glass fault, and new hardware will not fix it.
Who looks at it
Donavon Wheeler runs the Dallas–Fort Worth operation out of Corinth and checks these himself — sweep, jamb seal, silicone line, then the fall on the curb, in that order, because the cheapest cause is also the most common. Infinity Glass & Glazing is family-owned with 30+ years of custom glass behind it.
One company owns the job from that check through the warranty. Repairs are booked during standard hours, Monday to Friday. Where glass does have to be replaced, every panel meets the 2024 IRC 308 safety standard, tempered and tagged to ANSI Z97.1. Fully insured, and estimates are free.
Questions we get about water escaping under a door
Why does water escape at the corner of a frameless shower door?
That corner is where the hinge stile, the curb and the jamb seal all meet, so it collects water before any other point. A hardened sweep, or a silicone joint that has pulled away from the tile, shows there first even when the rest of the seal is sound.
How often does a shower door sweep need replacing?
Water chemistry and use matter far more than age. What counts is whether the vinyl still flexes: press it against the curb and watch whether it returns. One that stays folded over, or has gone cloudy and brittle at the ends, has stopped sealing.
Can a shower door be sealed again without new glass?
In most cases, yes. Sweeps, jamb seals and silicone joints are serviceable parts, and replacing them is the usual repair. New glass only enters the conversation when the panel is damaged, or the opening has moved too far for any seal.
Should the silicone go inside or outside the enclosure?
Outside, along the joints where glass meets tile — not along the inside face at the base. Sealing the inside traps water behind the glass instead of letting it drain back into the tray.
If the part you need is the strip itself, our shower door seal replacement guide walks through identifying and sizing it. Where the water is escaping from a gap along the side rather than the base, see sealing gaps on a frameless shower door. For everything else an enclosure does wrong, shower door repair.
Tell us where the water lands
Whether the puddle sits at one corner or runs the length of the door tells us which of the three causes it is, usually before anyone comes out. Send us that and a photo of the bottom edge.