Shower Door Shattered On Its Own

Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise.

Shower door shattered on its own.

Modern shower door glass is required by code to be tempered so it will shatter into small generally not sharp pieces when damaged. Take a look at this man shattering his own shower door. The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it. That happened to a nine year old.

One of my shower doors spontaneously shattered whilst i was using the shower. A glass shower door can break even if no one s in the bathroom. Poor edge quality there are many potential causes for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass. Instead the glass panels were shattering from the center outward all on their own often with no one even in the room.

Safety glazing generally refers to any type of glass that is engineered to reduce the potential for serious injury. I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash. At 2 20 this morning i was awoken by the sound of my shower door shattering. It s called a spontaneous blow and it can happen because the glass is tempered.

I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed. The explosion was spontaneous. My theory was that the metal towel holder hanging over the top of the door may have caused the shattering heat expansion pressure.

Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem. Things in your home glass tables and shower doors and can be scary. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. Mara schiavocampo has what you need to know to stay safe.

Safety glazings are commonly required for sliding glass doors shower doors and patio furniture. Tempered glass is manufactured with a built in amount of. They went upstairs to investigate and in their empty bathroom they found their glass shower door inexplicably shattered and lying in perilous shards all over the bathroom. Well the shower door will hardly have spontaneously shattered without anyone touching it at all.

However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom. This was not a case of shower panels falling out of frames and crashing to the floor or of door brackets coming loose and causing the entire door to fall.