Unbranded S-3838WEF Installation guide

Brand: Unbranded

Model: S-3838WEF

Type: Installation guide

Shower & Bath Enclosure

Installation Instructions

Thank you for purchasing Heirloom Home Showers’ products. We are committed to providing

our customers with high quality products at a competitive price.

Please read all instructions carefully before and during installation.

Professional help is required for installation.

These installation instructions should be used as a guideline. Your specific shower or bath

enclosure may differ from the figures shown in these instructions. This instruction is for

shower models as follows: S-3535, S-3838, S-1615, S-3232, S3636, S-4040, S-4848 and SE-

3460.

Additional Installation Tools:

3” Dry wall screws

Silicone sealant

Phillips head screw driver

Flat head screw driver

The shower is delivered in a wood crate with carton box contents as follows:

1.S-3535 (4 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), center seat plastic

fiberglass panel (1), back wall panels (2), base (1) and hardware

2.S-3838(4 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), center seat plastic

fiberglass panel (1), back wall panels (2), base (1) and hardware

3.S-1615(4 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), function panel (1),

back wall panels (2), base (1) and top (1) with hardware

4.S-3232(3 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), back wall panels (2),

and base (1) with hardware

5.S-3636(3 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), back wall panels (2),

and base (1) with hardware

6.S-4040(4 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), function panel (1), back

wall panels (2), base (1) and top (1) with hardware

7.S-4848(4 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), function panel (1),

back wall panels (2), base (1) and top (1) with hardware

8.S-3460(4 boxes total): front glass panels (2) and glass doors (2), function panel (1),

back wall panels (2) and side panels (2), base (1) and top (1) with hardware

Hardware included:

1.Drain with flexible hose if you ordered 1-1/2” drain. It doesn’t come with a drain piece

or flexible hose if you ordered 2” drain. You can buy 2” drain at a hardware store.

2.Foot massager with mounting balls if your model ordered has this function. Flexible water

hose for the foot massager and through-wall elbow, washers and a ring nut.

3.10 cup washers and decorative chrome covers

4.1”, ½”, and 1/4" long screws

5.Glass shelf and its mounting bolts, washers, and nuts

6.Shower head sliding bar and its mounting bolts, washers and nuts.

7.Flexible water hose for hand-held shower and through-wall elbow, washers and a ring nut.

8.Hand-held shower head

9.8 door rollers

10.2 door handles

1. Pre-installation

Check the area you want to install your unit for the following:

a.Water hook-ups

b.Floor drain

c.Wall studs. Measure the area to ensure that once the unit is installed, the screw holes

located at the top of the enclosure walls will align with a wall stud.

d.120V outlet, if your unit has a built-in radio

2. Base Preparation

a.Remove the shower base or bath tub

from its packaging.

b.Remove all protective covering films

from the base.

c.Adjust the feet of the base so that the

base is level when lying flat on the

ground.

d.Remove the plastic tubing and unscrew

the top from the white plastic drain.

e.Place the top portion into the drain hole

in your base.

f.Apply silicone sealant to the bottom

portion of the white plastic drain (about

¼” from the edge of the rim) and place it

over the drain hole from the underside of

the base.

g.Screw the top of the plastic drain into the

bottom until tight. Do not over tighten

as this may crack the plastic.

h.Reattach the plastic piping to the plastic

drain.

i.Extend the piping and feed it into the

floor drain. You may use 1-1/4” to

2” coupling to secure the drain pipe to

your floor drain.

3. Glass Frame Assembly

a. Connect curved (or straight) rails to the vertical stiles with two metal screws as shown by

the illustration.

b. The bigger rail is on top

c. For showers with a straight front corner (e.g. S-39), two straight rails are jointed at the

corner with the L shaped corner connectors

d. For all models, fixed glasses are already installed to stiles when delivered.

4. Glass Panel Installation

Install fixed glass panels to the door frame as shown by the illustration. For all models,

fixed glasses are already installed to stiles when delivered. Therefore, go through steps

4, 8,and 9, to have the fixed glasses secured to the rails.

4. Glass Panel Installation

Install fixed glass panels to the door frame as shown by the illustration. For all models,

fixed glasses are already installed to stiles when delivered. Therefore, go through steps 4, 8,and

9, to have the fixed glasses secured to the rails.

5. Glass Door Assembly

a. Install the door rollers as shown by 6, but not to tight them yet.

b. Locate handle holes on the doors and install water seal strips with magnets (dark brown)

on the edges near the door handles and clear strips (4) to the other edges as shown by the

illustration.

6. Back wall Assembly

a. Install glass shelf, hand-held sliding bar or mounting bracket, towel bar if applicable, foot

massager if applicable, soap/shampoo dispensers if applicable, mirror if applicable,

through-wall elbows to back walls through pre-drilled holes.

b. Please check the installation diagrams below:

massager installation

Foot

Shelf installation

Hand-held shower

Hand-shower head mounting hook

Through-wall elbow installation

Shampoo dispenser installation

7. Glass Door Installation

For some models,

water supply are done

“through-wall elbow”

a. Put rollers on top of the doors into

the top rail first.

b. Then put the rollers on the bottom

into the bottom rail.

c. Tighten the rollers.

d.Use a wrench to turn the plastic (off-

centered) hex nuts to line up doors

(6).

e. Install the door handles.

f. Install the magnetic door seals to the

front edges of the doors.

g. Install the L door seals to the back

edges of the doors, making sure the

L pointing outward to the front the

glass panels.

Hand-held shower

Head sliding bar

Door Handle Installation

Door roller in top

track

Door roller in lower

track

(31 stands for glass)

8. Unit Assembly

a. Connect the front frame with two side-back walls. For some of the models, the ½”

stainless steel screws must be put on from the backside of the shower. Therefore, this

connection must be done off the shower base. Have doors removed from the front

frame.

b. For model S-3232, S-3636, S-3535, and S-3838, connect water supply to the shower.

You may need to move the front-frame-backwall assembly onto the base but leave

enough room for water connections.

c. For all other models, place front-frame-backwall assembly onto the base. You need two

people to move the assembly. Put the function panel close to its designated place and

connect hot and cold water supplies, water supplies to overhead shower, hand-held

shower, body jets, foot massager (if apply), and electrical wires to LED lights, Fan, and

speaker.

d. Place the roof of the unit on tip of the shower enclosure, aligning it with the walls, and

fixing it to the wall studs through the edge foldup. Note: Some of the units may not

have roofs.

Backwall is attached to the stile of the front frame

9. Unit installation

a. Connect and secure all water lines to the shower/bath enclosure. Make sure all

connections are water tight! If your unit comes with a built-in radio, plug it into a 120V

outlet.

b. Match up the electrical wire connectors (by pictures on the tags) for LED lights, speaker,

and fan. (The DC powers both lights If your unit has both dome and panel LED lights.)

You may apply silicone sealant to the outer edge of the base to secure the unit to the wall.

d.Secure the unit to the wall using the 3” dry wall screws. Place the dry wall screws

through the holes located at the top of the enclosure walls. The screws MUST be

screwed into a stud. If a stud is not available, insert a stud extender.

The second way of securing the shower unit to the wall is as follows. Mount a 17” long

2by 4 stud lumber horizontally and at the height that is right under the shower wall’s top

edge. Shower unit is then screwed to these two 2 by 4s.

The third way of securing the shower unit to the wall is to use 3” drain wall screws to

attach the front frame stiles to the drywall. S-3535 and S-3838 have holes pre-drilled.

e.Secure the roof top (if applicable) to drywall studs through the foldup edge.

10. Caulking

Use silicon sealant to seal all of the seams or joints from inside the shower

Unbranded S-3838WEF Installation guide

Unbranded S-3838WEF Installation guide

Unbranded S-3838WEF Installation guide

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