Neo Angles with Header are not too hard to install.

Michael Furchak installed the one at left. To read his comments go to glasss.com and in the box at the upper left scroll to shower number 1077.

FIRST OF ALL: Get some short 2x4's to set the glass on. NEVER set the glass on tile. Don't let the glass touch tile, hammers, metal, other glass, or extremely hard heads. It may explode. Glass should only touch fingers, rubber, wood, or maybe the end of your shoe with your toes curled up out of the way.

Basically:
1. Set Panels in opening
2. Set header on top. Mark Holes. Make sure the door opening is the correct size.
3. Remove glass and header, drill holes, silicone U-Channel.
4. Reinstall glass, header, fasten header to wall.
5. Install bottom pivot.
6. Bring Door inside shower and install into pivots.
7. Silicone the sidelights.
9. Install handle.

The sidelights have mitered edges. Drawing shows door swinging inward but usually Neo-Angles have vinyl which makes the door swing outwards only.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR DRILLING THE HOLE
We are supposed to do this for you at our shop. But sometimes it doesn't happen. It's a strange phenomenon, but not the end of the world.
Click here for drilling instructions.

If you have 3/8" thick Glass: Cut a section of U-Shaped Vinyl for the top of the sidelights.

They always give you a lot more than you need.

If you have 1/2" Glass you do not need this at all. Substitute a small bead of clear silicone seal, which is included with your order. Install the header dry first so that you can get the door opening correctly fitted.

For the Bottom of the Sidelights, you could be using U-Channel or Minibrackets, or Bolt-Through-the-Glass brackets for the bottom of the sidelights.

U-Channel: Set 3/16" thick clear plastic shims inside the U-Channel and set the Sidelights in the U-Channel on top of the setting blocks. Have someone help hold the panels.

Set the header on top of the glass with vinyl. The panels should stay there now.

Minibrackets: Set the sidelights on shims for now. When you are sure of the location of the glass then you can mark the glass and the minibrackets can be installed anywhere along this line. The glass will be held in securely by the bead of silicone.

Bolt-Through-the-Glass brackets: Set the glass on wood shims until you are sure of the location, then hold the bracket to the glass and mark the location of the hole to be drilled in the tile.

The Picture shows a header sitting on the panels before the door was installed.

The hole in the tile has to be drilled on an angle. The angle is not all that critical. This allows the header to be fastened to the wall while it is on the glass.
The old style clips interfered with the glass as well. So this is an improvement and not that difficult to do. If you are using U-Channel these will be the first two of only four holes you have to drill for this installation.

Before marking the hole location, make sure you have the proper height for the door. Then make sure the header is level.
Proper height for the door: There is 7/16" at the bottom of the door and 1/8" at the top. Measure your door height, add 9/16", and that is the BOTTOM of the Header.
Proper Width is 3/8" plus the door width, (Measure the door.)

Note: If you are using the giant Senior Prima Hinges, the gap at the bottom of the door is 9/16" instead of 7/16. So add 11/16" to the door height to get to the bottom of the header. Width is 3/16" on each side, same as other pivots.

Now that the glass is out of the opening and the holes for the header wall mount brackets (BWB2) have been drilled, Run a bead of silicone under the U-Channel as well as a small bead inside the U-Channel along the inside of the legs. We don't generally recommend screwing down the U-Channel because there is too much chance it will end up in the wrong place. Siliconing allows you to micro-adjust the position of the panels by kicking them with your foot.

Set the U-Channel back on the centerline. Set the glass on setting blocks - change the setting blocks to adjust the height of the header (you knew that.) Set the header back on the glass and fasten it to the wall.

Picture at right shows someone putting the bottom pivot on the glass before it is installed. DON"T DO THIS.