6 quality issues to consider when you buy shower seals
When you buy shower seals it is important to understand what qualities make a great shower seal. In this article we are going to cover 6 of the most important factors when you buy shower seals from China.
1. Clarity
The product is shower seal for glass door so clarity is the top priority to have a nice look. Most shower seals are made of PVC. The raw material naturally comes with a blueish or foggy tone. A non-clear shower seal “stands out” from the shower room as it looks so obvious, while a clear one leave an “all-glass” appearance. People can easily tell if it’s a high-end shower room simply by the seal on it. Unfortunately not every shower producer notice this small detail and we’ve seen non-clear seals are used on the showers in many top 5-star hotel rooms.
Below is the comparison of seals with different clarity
2. Color durability
It’s the nature of plastic product to get yellow eventually. A quality shower seal producer uses anti-UV additive that ensures the product remains pretty much same colour during its life span.
3. Size accuracy
Like many other products, you can barely use a shower seal with inaccurate dimensions. Shower seals are all extruded plastic and most of the dimension on a shower seal are co-relevant, if you change the height, the width may get smaller as a consequence. Customers who are so used to precise dimensions find it hard to understand why the product they receive from the producer is so different from the design. In this case it might be because the designer doesn’t understand which are the key sizes. Mostly there are only 2-3 important dimensions which makes the product functions well enough. You need to well communicate with your producer and discuss on the tolerance of those less important dimensions before they start working on a prototype.
4. Consistency of quality
Shower seals are mostly made from PVC and the nature of PVC makes it a challenge to be consistent in quality. It’s not uncommon you receive the goods different from the last batch. The difference might be a slight variance of color or hardness, which is definitely noticeable but hard to quantify. You know your customers would complain but the factory might tell you it’s within the tolerance and there is nothing they can do about it. You may blame the factory for not doing a good quality control but the actual reason behind is they don’t have a consistently-good supply of raw material. The solution to this problem for the manufacturer is to take more control on the raw material. Those who care about quality consistency would use only PVC powder of famous brands, also making their own PVC granules is a further step to ensure quality. These are things you need to evaluate before placing an order.
5. Reliability
A quality shower seal is with great rigidness while being compressible and elastic, which ensures it does not break while it’s pushed to click over the glass. Also a poor seal might break or change its shape during daily open and close of the door.
6. Packaging
Shower seals come in long straight lengths and it’s quite a challenge to ensure the goods arrive safe.
For outter packaging, wooden box is an ideal packaging material but that means extra shipping weight and volume. Alternatively strong carton boxes with extra outer protection wrap would also do a good job.
Also pay attention to the inner protection of the seals, keep the seals scratching one another by using individual bags.
Why do I need to care about shower seals
For shower retailer:
Shower seals are one of the things you barely notice in your daily life, most people don’t even know how to call the long plastic attached on the shower door. However when water leak happens in your shower, it’s not easy to find a replaced seal. It’s very annoying to see your floor splashed with water each time you step out of the shower. Frustrated enough, you probably are not able to get a same seal in your local Home Depot or plumber stores. Lots of homeowners often end up leaving the floor wet for a long time before they finally find and pay a high price for something similar in the internet.
For shower producer:
A quality seal is as crucial as the hinges, handles and glass on a shower. Consumers acknowledge details and they can easily tell the difference if the seals you use do not look something high-end as what you say on your advertisement. More importantly if the seals do not function well and cause a water leak, people get so frustrated and would not be fair enough to think you’ve done a good job on other parts of the shower.
7、Water tightness
Water tightness ，mainly on the strip seal to complete, if you didn’t pay attention to when choose shower room, in your installation shower house use for a period of time to found the problem, then replace the shower room strip is troublesome, also waste a lot of cost.
How to see the shower seal waterproofing is good or not, first look at the glass door strip, if very magnetic, there won’t be a breakpoint in the hinge problem, also need to pay attention to general use 2-3 years to replace a, can solve the problem of aging.
Of course, you need to observe the seams of shower room and wall, door and door of the joint, and shower room and low groundmass seams of the basin, note no cracks crack position and test the waters without leakage phenomenon.
When buying shower room accessories, you may need to know more detail about the product. Many consumers are worried that the shower room adhesive strips have not been tested. At this time, choose a reliable brands is important!
Generally, the service life of a high-quality shower room is about 3-5 years. And the service life of a poor-quality shower room is about 1-2 years at that time, many problems will start to go wrong.
Therefore, you must know the product clearly with the sales staff before purchasing, in case, some problems happen after installation which you may need to disassemble and reinstall.
General and high grade service life about shower room in 3 to 5 years, if the quality is bad bad shower room service life will be about 1 to 2 years, many problems will appear.
Must be carried out before the choose and buy it with the sales staff, so that after the installation problem, need to open again to install, so proposal consumer choice of good quality high quality shower room.
Location of shower seal waterproofing tape
Usually, in the shower room strip position will lead to different effects , for example, such as organ strip and dislocation glue, waterproof glue. Shower seal waterproofing strip, generally in a place such as the test material and bottom rail, the strip tensile performance is good, with excellent compressive resistance which can guarantee the walls and the surface of the matrix, perfect match with glass,and we don;t event need to dozen glass glue can also be waterproof, which are beautiful and environmental health.
The quality of the sealing strip will affect the service life
Dislocation strip and organ strip are good at anti-aging ability, UV radiation, some brands has made a strip test, the temperature difference in – 50 ° C extremely cold environment to 80 ° thermal environment can normally use. However, in the market, some shower room block water from the bottom of the door because there is no good design on the processing of strip and often appear slack phenomenon, there are quite a number of shower room manufacturers design flat open use the spring hinge, hinge parts need to cut the strip processing, causing strip from top to bottom is not a whole, hinge parts leaking in severe cases.
In short, a cheap shower room uses the technology of refrigerator door magnetic strip with poor sealing strip quality, and the transparency quality is also not that good, it has more impurities, and easy aging rupture thus, also more short service life.
How to distinguish the merits of the strip shower room
first, you need to smelling，the taste of normal PVC material will not have a strong odor.
Second, you can put the strip in high-temperature exposure, whether the surface of the strip is a stained color, whether the dust on the surface of the strip oil leakage is yellow.If there are changes in color, it is a bad product.
Third,check the surface, if the product with a light color surface, it’s means this strip was use a good material.
Fourth, the comparison of weights,
Some merchants will use talcum powder and coarse powder as filler to fabricate, increasing the proportion of sealing products and affecting the quality of products
CONCLUSION
Shower seal material composition and processing in the shower room is very important!
Common is PVC material, it is recommended that you choose some of the silicone material, to fixed glass and walls, not only easily fixed, but also can effectively prevent mildew!
Buying shower seal, you needs to fully consider these factors, the durability of the clarity and color can let the shower door looks more beautiful, choose the high precision size and density of shower seals can avoid the occurrence of water penetration.
The shower room looks very simple, but the glass, hardware, gaskets, etc., you need to consider how to put these parts into each shower room and match perfectly, also the material you need for every step.
ABOUT GOLDRAYS
GoldRays is the largest manufacturer of shower seals in China. We supply a complete lineup of seals and gaskets for shower doors, glass doors and windows. Backed by our experience of over 15 years, our quality far surpasses the industry standard while managing to maintain our competitive prices. The shower seals and profiles are made from clear PVC, EVA or polycarbonate and are used for shower door sealing and various glass door applications to prevent water leakage, air infiltration and cushion impact. It works with straight, curved, pivot and sliding glass doors. With a high-standard quality control system, the product is second to none in terms of durability, transparency and rigidness.