While one fracture may not seem like a fatal blow over days or even hours these seemingly small fractures can grow causing your shower door to spontaneously shatter.
Shower door shattered no reason.
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.
Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem.
Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people.
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.
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.
Safety glazing generally refers to any type of glass that is engineered to reduce the potential for serious injury.
It was as if someone took a sledgehammer and hit it.
The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it.
It took years but eventually the weight of the door stressed the hinges and caused the glass to crack.
So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter.
Poor edge quality there are many potential causes for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass.
In my case the hinges used for the shower door weren t strong enough to hold a door of that size.
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.
It sounded like popcorn kucharik told abc news recalling the crackling noise that emanated from the shards.
The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.