Shower Door Shattered On Its Own

Safety glazings are commonly required for sliding glass doors shower doors and patio furniture.

Shower door shattered on its own.

At 2 20 this morning i was awoken by the sound of my shower door shattering. 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. A glass shower door can break even if no one s in the bathroom. One of my shower doors spontaneously shattered whilst i was using the shower.

As it was a couple of years old and fitted by my oh i didn t fancy a fight with bathstore just lived with missing door. Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. 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.

The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it. Modern shower door glass is required by code to be tempered so it will shatter into small generally not sharp pieces when damaged. Well the shower door will hardly have spontaneously shattered without anyone touching it at all. Mara schiavocampo has what you need to know to stay safe.

Take a look at this man shattering his own shower door. 6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. Safety glazing generally refers to any type of glass that is engineered to reduce the potential for serious injury. It s called a spontaneous blow and it can happen because the glass is tempered.

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. Tempered glass is manufactured with a built in amount of. Poor edge quality there are many potential causes for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass. 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. My theory was that the metal towel holder hanging over the top of the door may have caused the shattering heat expansion pressure. So the question is could it have shattered after long use by the sort of contact that would fall within fair wear and tear or could it only have shattered by some kind of misuse. Things in your home glass tables and shower doors and can be scary.

Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem. However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom.