Shower Door Randomly Shattered

6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill.

Shower door randomly shattered. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. The good thing is that tempered glass is made to break safely. The glass did not simply crack it shattered explosively. Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken.

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. Hours or days later the door will then. Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom.

One minute the shower door was completely intact. The breakage was never a crack that progressed into pieces of glass tinkling to the floor. The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it. I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was.

So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter. I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash. The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.

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. That happened to a nine year old. 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.