Custom Glass Installation
in Don Mills.

Frameless showers from $850 · enclosures from $1,600

We install frameless shower enclosures, glass railings, and custom mirrors across Don Mills, every job backed by our 5-year warranty on labour and 5-year warranty on hardware.

What Don Mills homes ask of glass

The Don Mills housing stock is the original 1950s-1960s planned community — typically 1,800 to 3,000 sq ft on 60 to 80 foot lots, single or two-storey, with original primary baths of 4 to 7 square metres. The neighbourhood was designed as the first planned suburban community in Canada, with curved residential streets feeding off the central Donway loop. The current renovation cycle is steady, with most projects in the renovation-plus-addition category and a slower flow of full tear-down rebuilds.

Major streets anchoring the neighbourhood include Don Mills Road on the west, Eglinton Avenue East on the south, Lawrence Avenue East on the north, and the Donway loop threading through the residential interior. Don Mills Collegiate Institute serves the family base, and the Shops at Don Mills define the commercial anchor at the Don Mills and Lawrence intersection. The glass work pattern reflects the renovation cycle and the mid-century original configurations.

Frameless shower enclosures in Don Mills

The Don Mills primary ensuite on a renovation is typically 6 to 10 square metres with a defined shower zone of 1.2 to 1.5 metres on the long axis. Frameless shower glass is most often a two-panel fixed-and-swing run with 10 mm tempered as the standard. Panel heights run 2.0 to 2.2 metres on the original Don Mills envelope.

On the smaller share of tear-down rebuilds, the ensuite is 12 to 16 square metres with a 1.6 to 2.0 metre shower zone, three-panel runs with 12 mm tempered standard.

Glass railings in Don Mills

Interior stair railings are a steady category. The mid-century 1950s-1960s stock has original wood-and-metal balustrades, and renovations replace them with frameless or top-railed glass on a 3 to 5 metre open stair run. Base-shoe anchored to the stair stringer. The 1950s framing rewards careful templating — stud spacing is sometimes 18 or 24 inches on centre rather than 16.

Exterior rear-deck guards are a steady secondary category. Don Mills rear yards are well-treed and standard residential wind load applies. Typical runs are 5 to 9 metres of 12 mm tempered with base-shoe. The original planned-community lot orientations sometimes put rear yards on irregular angles, and the deck and guard layout follows the lot lines.

Custom mirrors in Don Mills

Vanity mirrors in Don Mills ensuites are mid-width — typically 1.2 to 1.8 metres on a single-vanity layout. On the larger renovation and rebuild ensuites, widths run 1.8 to 2.4 metres. We cut to the wall, polish all edges, and back-mount with adhesive and concealed clips.

Why a recent install in Don Mills matters

A recent install in Don Mills was on a 1956 detached on the Donway. The homeowner had gut-renovated the second-floor primary ensuite to 9 square metres with a 1.4-metre shower zone. The challenge was the original 1956 plumbing stack — the cast-iron stack ran through the wall behind the new shower zone, and the fixed panel had been specified to land flush against the wall plane on top of the new tile substrate. The plumbing rough-in had set the stack 8 mm proud of the surrounding wall plane, which was hidden behind tile but felt as a slight ridge during templating. We re-templated the fixed panel to land 12 mm off the wall on a vertical channel, which absorbed the stack proudness and gave us a clean install plane. The panel reads dead-flat from inside the wet zone and the stack is invisible behind tile.

Areas we also serve nearby

• Banbury-Don Mills — adjacent north
• Bayview Village — west across the East Don
• St. Andrew-Windfields — west pocket
• York Mills — north-west
• Bayview Woods — north toward Steeles
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