Frameless glass shower enclosure

Shower Doors · Calgary, Alberta

Shower Doors in Calgary.

A chinook's brief dry spell does more damage to an untreated shower door than a whole steady Calgary winter, which is exactly the window a factory-applied coating is built to cover.

In short

Calgary's air runs dry most of the year and drier still during a chinook, so water sitting on a shower door evaporates fast and leaves mineral residue behind quicker than in a humid climate. Crateworks specs a factory-applied coating to cut that buildup on a frameless enclosure.

Built for Calgary’s climate

Dry air works against shower glass in a way that's easy to miss. Calgary's humidity already runs low through a zone 7A winter, and a chinook, being warm air that has dropped and dried out coming off the Rockies, pushes it lower still for the day or two it lasts. Water on the glass evaporates fast in that stretch, and every time it does, it leaves mineral residue behind instead of rinsing away slowly, building a haze quicker than in a wetter climate. A factory-applied glass coating cuts that buildup down to a wipe instead of a scrub. Older character homes, the kind found in Britannia and around Elbow Park, also rarely have a perfectly square bathroom opening, so custom sizing matters as much as the coating.

Climate zone
NBC Zone 7A (very cold)
Best time to spec
April to June
What we plan for
deep cold, freeze-thaw, chinook swings, and snow load

Why it suits Calgary

The fix isn't really about the glass alone, it's timing the coating to how often Calgary's air actually cycles between steady dry cold and a chinook's brief, faster-drying stretch. We spec that coating standard, and because freight still rails over the Rockies from Vancouver or Prince Rupert on the same route as any Calgary order, a custom cut for an older Britannia bathroom ships on schedule regardless.

Container-direct delivery into Calgary and southern Alberta.

How it ships to Calgary: Freight lands at the Port of Vancouver or Prince Rupert and rails over the Rockies into Alberta.
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How it works

  1. 01

    Send your scope

    Drawings, a materials list, or a rough idea. No account, no obligation. Just tell us what the project needs.

  2. 02

    We source & spec

    We match products to your climate and local code, then price them factory-direct from vetted suppliers, not off a distributor's shelf.

  3. 03

    One delivered quote

    The whole schedule comes back as a single coordinated quote, delivered to Calgary. One order, one point of contact.

One source for the whole project

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Common questions

It does, and a chinook makes it worse for a day or two at a time. The faster evaporation concentrates mineral residue on the glass quicker, and we spec a factory-applied coating specifically to slow that buildup.
That's most of the work. Neo-angle corners, barn-style openings, and odd-width alcoves in older Britannia and Elbow Park character homes are sized to spec, not selected from a catalog.
Yes. The coating is chosen for repeated fast-evaporation cycles, which a chinook causes several times a winter, not just for steady cold the way a single-season spec would assume.

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Send drawings or a rough scope. We quote the Calgary delivered price, all-in.

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