Shower Door Randomly Shattered

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Shower door randomly shattered. 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. 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. The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it.

The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed. The breakage was never a crack that progressed into pieces of glass tinkling to the floor. 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 did not simply crack it shattered explosively. Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem. Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. 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.

Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken. So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter. 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 good thing is that tempered glass is made to break safely.

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. Experts say it could happen if the door was incorrectly installed or if the rubber stoppers or runners on the bottom are damaged. I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was.