Guide

Corner Enclosure vs Alcove Sliding Door

Which format fits the bathroom you are working with.

Format follows the room, not the catalogue. Three walls means one thing; two walls and an open side means another.

Alcove sliding door

An opening bounded by walls on both sides takes a single in-line sliding door — the push-pull format. Nothing swings into the bathroom, which matters when the door would otherwise hit a basin or a WC. It is the cheapest format per opening because it is one plane of glass and one track.

Corner enclosure

Two walls and two open sides need a fixed return panel plus a door. That is the corner format: the return panel closes the second open side, and the door handles access. It costs more because there is more glass and more profile, and it is what most hotel bathrooms with a square tray actually need.

Quadrant

A curved front across a corner. It buys floor space back in a small bathroom by removing the two hard corners of a square enclosure, and it suits a matching curved tray. It is the least forgiving format on an out-of-square corner.

Hinged

A swing door in a framed surround. Best seal, simplest hardware, and the format that needs clear swing space in front of it. In a compact bathroom that space usually is not there, which is why sliding formats dominate volume projects.

Send a sketch of the room with the wall positions and the tray shape and the format question answers itself.

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