Shower Door Shattered No Reason

Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem.

Shower door shattered no reason. That happened to a nine year old. It sounded like popcorn kucharik told abc news recalling the crackling noise that emanated from the shards. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. Poor edge quality there are many potential causes for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass.

Safety glazing generally refers to any type of glass that is engineered to reduce the potential for serious injury. Shower doors do not always break because of fractures though the door could be installed incorrectly or a simple piece of hardware could be missing causing the door to fall off or causing a small fracture due to misuse. There have also been cases of shower doors on sliding tracks that shatter if the rubber bumpers are missing and the door strikes the sidetrack during operation. Safety glazings are commonly required for sliding glass doors shower doors and patio furniture.

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. The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it. Experts say it could happen if the door was incorrectly installed or if the rubber stoppers or runners on the bottom are damaged.

In my case the hinges used for the shower door weren t strong enough to hold a door of that size. It took years but eventually the weight of the door stressed the hinges and caused the glass to crack. 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.