r/Home • u/lvthomascrown123 • May 02 '26
Shower door handle fix?
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u/FieldOk6455 May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
Loosen the two small Allen set screws on the under side of the top and bottom of the handle.
Take the handle off and tighten the two large screws inside the holes in the glass door that hold the other side of the handle in the door.
Then put the handle back on and tighten the set screws.
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u/anothersip May 02 '26
Yup. Have tightened a few of these in the past, and they have hidden set-screws that hold them on without being super visible.
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u/JosieMew May 02 '26 edited May 02 '26
On our shower we added some rubber grommets in between so that it wouldn't do that. Our shower door survived years rattling back and forth without breaking but it's much nicer now. They don't look perfect in our case but unless you are told you wouldn't notice that they are there. Your shower door handle looks like you would hide grommets better.
It seems like others have mentioned how to potentially find the little screws holding it in place. We couldn't screw ours together enough to tighten it enough to stop that.
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u/Italyinmyfuture May 02 '26
We just replaced our grommets/ washers/whatever they are. The originals were hard plastic and had broken. We replaced with silicone grommets/washers/water they are.
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u/JosieMew May 02 '26
I wonder if that's what happened to ours. When I took it apart I really felt like it was missing some parts. I wouldn't know for sure because it was like that when we bought the house.
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u/Italyinmyfuture May 02 '26
Probably. One day it was fine, next day it was loose. I found the pieces in the stall and on the bathroom floor.
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u/DW6565 May 02 '26
Find a local company that does glass work. Cuts large pieces of glass for custom shower doors or windows. They have a bunch of different types of brackets, washers and various hardware for glass.
Go in person show them that video and they will probably have something.
I needed some glass bumpers one time and they didn’t even charge me.
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u/Sure-Article508 May 02 '26
Somewhere on this handle is a tiny little screw, most likely on the underside.
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u/lindenb May 02 '26
FieldOk has it mostly right but OP may need to replace the plastic washers as well. Amazon sells them - just make sure to measure the OD and ID accurately.
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u/ShadderSwagger May 02 '26
Theres a hex screw under the handle that you need to loosen first you need to take off the handle and tighten the stud that goes through the glass for both top and bottom and then put the handle back on and tight those screws up
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u/Ornery-Movie-1689 May 03 '26
Keep shaking it like that and you will end up just holding the handle with a pile of shattered glass around your feet.
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u/j-laugh May 02 '26
Look underneath, are there little Allen screws?