Bath side mounted 'glass' shower screens- can you temporarily remove one?

[ampere]

We never use the shower over the bath, however, we have guests coming and want to rig up a shower screen, something visually a little more sophisticated than the spring tensioned aluminium pole and flappy white curtain on rings that we have thus far used.

I am thinking about one of those swing out 'glass' shower screens (in apostrophes because they might be acrylic!). This would involve screwing the 'upright' hinge into the tiles, which is fine but can you then via perhaps lifting it up disengage the actual screen and remove it altogether for all those weeks when you don't need the shower but don't want to stretch around the screen the reach the end-mounted bath taps? I am aware that such screens do swing out beyond the bath to a certain extent but I want to know if one can remove the glass bit altogether.

TIA

Anyone?

We didn't fit our one, so I'm not sure, but it looks like you'd be able to undo some screws which hold the glass panel onto the hinge part to take it off. It also hinges all the way out so you could have it flat against the wall outside the bath to keep it out of the way.

I think you'd need to have a good look at a display one in a shop to be sure how it would work though, as they may not all be the same.

HTH

Yes, it will be screwed into the wall - you can't really unclip the glass bit but it's no biggie. I don't really understand why you want to remove it though - ours swings 180 degrees so we can fold it against the wall or across the end of the bath when we aren't using the shower. Or you could get a sort of concertina shower screen.

we have a fold up one that just goes really neatly against hte wall when not in use.

you could take it off, but then you'd have holes in the tiles. the glass bit itself can't just come in and out

cautionary tale...

What's wrong with a shower curtain?

Poor you!

The problem we have re swinging the screen wide is that right next to the tap end of the bath is the WC. The glass panel could only swing out away from the side of the bath maybe 45 degrees before it hit the cistern of the WC. This does mean that I physically couldn't get myself beneath the swung-wide screen to pick up toys or anything else cos the loo's there so I couldn't have the sort of accident Jareth has suffered! But it also means that, swung the max 45 degrees out that it could go would mean I would still have to reach in a fair way to access the taps.

I may have to go 'concertina' though they don't look that nice and are harder to clean.

oh it wasn't me ampere, it was Pavlov!

we almost got one of these

we have the same situation as you in that the toilet is next to the bath. the extra "panel" between the wall and the screen itself on these would give it enough clearance to fold back in front of our cistern iyswim?

however, we didn't get one, we got this which folds right back to the wall, and not that hard to clean i don't think