Shower Door Randomly Shattered

At 2 20 this morning i was awoken by the sound of my shower door shattering.

Shower door randomly shattered.

The glass did not simply crack it shattered explosively. So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter. Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. After all it s widely known that shower doors and shower panels can shatter if they come loose from their frames and tracks so it s reasonable to believe that this much more understandable phenomenon was at work.

The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening. The breakage was never a crack that progressed into pieces of glass tinkling to the floor. 6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. Experts say it could happen if the door was incorrectly installed or if the rubber stoppers or runners on the bottom are damaged.

Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem. The good thing is that tempered glass is made to break safely. 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.

Hours or days later the door will then. 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. Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken. One minute the shower door was completely intact.

That happened to a nine year old. Cristina the kohler spokeswoman said that sometimes a small fracture will occur on the edge of a shower door that won t immediately cause it to shatter. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash.