6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill.
Shower door shattered on its own.
Instead the glass panels were shattering from the center outward all on their own often with no one even in the room.
Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise.
Take a look at this man shattering his own shower door.
A glass shower door can break even if no one s in the bathroom.
However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom.
Well the shower door will hardly have spontaneously shattered without anyone touching it at all.
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.
Mara schiavocampo has what you need to know to stay safe.
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.
Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem.
Tempered glass is manufactured with a built in amount of.
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.
Things in your home glass tables and shower doors and can be scary.
It s called a spontaneous blow and it can happen because the glass is tempered.
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.
The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.
Safety glazings are commonly required for sliding glass doors shower doors and patio furniture.
At 2 20 this morning i was awoken by the sound of my shower door shattering.
I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash.
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.
Safety glazing generally refers to any type of glass that is engineered to reduce the potential for serious injury.
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.
That happened to a nine year old.