Glass Fabrication: an important part of our mission to break down the barriers between homeowners and the showers of their dreams

Since 1997, DT Glass has sold and installed residential glass, particularly frameless glass showers.  Like every other glass shop in the Pacific NW, we ordered our glass from a handful of local fabricators.  We took the measurements and placed the orders, they created the glass panels and delivered them to us, and we installed.

In 2017 we took control of the entire process.  We moved to a 24,000 sq. ft. facility, stocked it with cases of annealed sheets of glass, and equipment for cutting, edging, mitering, notching, and tempering.  It was a major undertaking.  Here in the Pacific Northwest, fabrication is controlled by a handful of very large plants where shower glass is no where near as important as windows and exterior glass for high-rise buildings and commercial businesses. Since we’d never seen a retail glass shop that fabricated their own shower doors, we traveled all over the country to see how it was being done, and assure ourselves that we could bring that level of service to Portland area homeowners.  From the California Bay Area, to Texas, Florida, and even Manhattan, Kansas, we met incredibly talented, successful, helpful and kind business owners who cemented our vision of what we wanted to create in our own shop.

It took several years to source all of the equipment, make building upgrades to bring in 1200 amps of electricity, not to mention setting up process flow and tracking systems.  Our most important piece of equipment, the tempering oven, was custom made for us in Italy, before being shipped to the US for final setup and training performed by the Italian team of mechanics, electricians and engineers.