Shatterproof Glass Shower Doors

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

Shatterproof glass shower doors. There is an incredibly detailed manufacturing process to achieve this. In the event that your shower door breaks tempered glass will cause the glass to break into dull cubes while regular glass will break into jagged shards. A hanging glass shower door that falls from its track for example may shatter quite easily. Shower base clear 3 8 in.

Meaning if you were to drop the glass on its side it would instantly shatter. Get free shipping on qualified shatter resistant glass plastic sheets or buy online pick up in store today in the building materials department. Features frameless shower with barn door type sliding operation coordinates with passage 60 in. Thick tempered glass for safety easy to clean glass helps prevent streaking by sheeting the water to carry away dirt reversible door opening installs with sliding door on left or right.

Custom shower walls and passage 60 in. Showering behind safety glass. Due to this serious injuries from shower doors shattering are very rare. It takes a serious impact to break and when it does it shatters into small granular chunks instead of large shards.

It s called a spontaneous blow and it can happen because the glass is tempered. Safety glass also known as tempered glass is often used for shower screens. During the heating process the glass becomes more resistant to a direct impact but much more susceptible to a side impact. 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 is designed with safety in mind. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed. At glass doctor you ll get safe and stunning glass shower doors. It is conceivable that some of the exploding shower doors occur because one of the top rollers loosens causing the door to fall an inch or two shattering on impact.

A small side edge fracture say from slamming the door can make the whole door crack to pieces hours or days later. This makes the glass much stronger against direct impact but weakens it against side impact. This glass is designed to shatter to avoid having large jagged shards of dangerous broken glass. A glass shower door can break even if no one s in the bathroom.

6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. Most glass shower doors are put through a process called tempering where its tensile strength is altered during a heating process.