Shower Door Randomly Shattered

The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening.

Shower door randomly shattered.

Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash. 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 good thing is that tempered glass is made to break safely. That happened to a nine year old. Hours or days later the door will then. However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom.

At 2 20 this morning i was awoken by the sound of my shower door shattering. 6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. 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. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.

Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken. I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was. The glass did not simply crack it shattered explosively. 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.

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. So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem.