Shower Door Randomly Shattered

The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.

Shower door randomly shattered.

Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken. 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. The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it.

Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem. Hours or days later the door will then. That happened to a nine year old. One minute the shower door was completely intact.

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. Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening. 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.

I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was. The glass did not simply crack it shattered explosively. The good thing is that tempered glass is made to break safely. 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.

So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom. 6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill.