Why tempered glass randomly explodes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.พ. 2015
- It can happen in an instant; tiny pieces of glass can come raining down.
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Just happened to me tonight. It literally was an explosion, but the cleanup wasn't too bad after all.
Me too 😐
Same here
Now I know it really happens..
happened at our office during the weekend. I thought it might be a gunshot or some animal hit it at the right spot. never thought it could actually be just one of the properties of glass
Nothing in this video explains why this happens. I've seen someone smashing the glass with a hammer. That'll do it. But not a single instance of the glass exploding spontaneously. Poor reporting. Very little science. No conclusion.
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Watch Smarter Every Day's video on tempered glass
Made in China.
Remember that defective Chinese dry-wall scandal?
This is actually real. We had a big stupid George Foreman Fusion Grill like 20 years ago (you can look up the picture) with a tempered glass top. It just exploded one night at about 2 AM and flung beads of tempered up to 18' across our kitchen/dining room. Made a hellaciously loud bang. The power source wasn't even plugged in. My mom thought my sister or I broke it until we pointed out that we couldn't very easily make it explode violently.
As for why it happens, they mentioned manufacturing defects, which causes undue strain on the tempered. There's a lot of bound energy in tempered glass, which is why you can tap the edge of a tempered pane with a hammer and have the whole thing spider or collapse into beads - once you propagate that wave and start freeing the glass's own energy from within it destroys itself. Our grill lid probably developed a stress point in a spot and started pushing against the metal rim banding the glass as the heat of using it gradually worked on that stress point, until finally it just started building up pressure on its own that seemingly spontaneously rebounded through the glass and caused the whole thing to blow up and out of the metal rim trying to hold it together.
Right? This JUST HAPPENED TO ME EARLIER TONIGHT. I’ve cleaned the glass already from the shower but now I’m just looking up any information that could’ve explained what happened and so far there’s nothing.
So _how do they shatter????_
You had _one_ question to answer and you spent over 4 minutes not answering it!
ytmndan poltergeist
They did answer it you moron. Abnormalities in the glass during manufacturing process and temperature changes.
That's not an adequate answer to me.
What was abnormal? The composition? The color? The structure? Was there a foreign substance in it?
What attribute of the unnamed abnormality caused the structural integrity to fail? Did it cause the glass to be weak? Brittle? Less Resistant to fluctuating temperatures?
What triggers the reaction? Temperature? Impact? Vibrations?
All I know is that something triggered you to overreact and call a complete stranger a moron.
Boomer How do the abnormalities occur? And how do these abnormalities cause the glass to break?
Zsa Zsa Umbra lol 🤣🤣🤣❤️
I work at a double glazing factory where we toughen our own glass. Typically we see more glass shatter during winter due to the cold air in the factory, however we've also had double glazing units just "pop" so to speak when they're ready to be shipped off. I've had several pieces break over my head and I'm glad it's always been toughened rather than float glass. Regardless I still see my life flash before my eyes every time lmao
I've been near tempered glass spontaneously shattering three times, once from glass plate, and twice from small glass bowels. The last time was about a dozen years ago, the bowel was about 4" square, and it was inside the cabinet when it came apart, the explosion knocked the door of the cabinet open about 3 inches, and dropped little squares of glass onto the counter top, and then the closer on the door closed the cabinet door.
Bowl*
I kept thinking that you were having a bowel movement and I was oh no! That must have hurt coming out 🤪😂
@@maribelgranados80I just thought, oh dear, this writer does not know where she’s taking us…🤭
@@maribelgranados80 Exploding bowels. Nice.
I was driving on the freeway this afternoon and my driver side front window exploded. Scared the absolute shit out of me!
This makes much more sense now
You must've thought someone was shooting at you 😂
Yep! This happened to me today 😢
Reason why I'm here: It happened to me. I have a large sheet of glass on top of my snake's tank because it has a screen top and doesn't hold the humidity. So I lifted the sheet up to move it so I could get him out to feed him, all I did was lift it. Suddenly there was a loud boom and the glass went everywhere! My mom thought I dropped something and heard it from the other room it was so loud. It literally went all over my room! My closet door was closed and it got in there, got all the way across the room, just everywhere! And some of the pieces were popping and jumping! It wasn't hot and it wasn't freezing, it was a bit more on the cold side, but not anything that should have warranted an extreme explosion. I've got work in an hour and my mom and I spent like two hours cleaning it all up.
Is the snake OK???
@@brocktoon8 Oh yeah, the tank lid was closed so nothing got in his enclosure, everyone was fine, it was just a big mess
Huh TH-cam, I guess you really are paying attention to what I watch.
This explains what happened with Matthias. I never thought it was a ghost but was curious on how this works.
Aye I came looking for this to find a solution for Matt. Crazy stuff tho
Oh thank god I’m not the only one lol
Matthias is from team edge ?
A glass sitting on my counter literally exploded and cut my arm. I couldn’t believe it and didn’t understand what just happened. Shards and pieces were everywhere. Thank goodness it didn’t get in my eye. It scared the hell out of me
I had this happen to me back in the 1980s when I was vacuuming my parents living room, and all I did was touch the glass door on my parents old entertainment center.
It was something I will never forget because I didn't even push anything yet but it went pop suddenly thousands of pieces went everywhere. It's a weird situation.
My glass chopping board randomly exploded today...then it continued to make a crackling sound and a couple pieces flew up. Scared the hell out of me...smh this video explained nothing
I had a weighing scale of glass and it happened the same way
I have had a very thick , beautiful glass fruit bowl which in the night suddenly broke in to two halves. . It fell onto a heavy pike carpet and I'm absolutely shocked. It was 40 years old and was a special present from my husband prior to our marriage. I thought at first it was a malicious intruder who did it. Can anyone advise me as to why may have caused this.
Matthias tryna fund this like 😳
Got this recommended just after watching the video
@@percpopper20s65same
Same
Yyyyep...we all gonna send him this video right?
@@deadchannelseriouslyitsdea9776 Somebody post it on the subreddit
This happened to my living room table today
5x5 living room window today
I just watched the Matthias video and got recommended this-
I've had two completely different drinking glasses explode on me. The first one was in my hand when it happened. It contained orange juice and club soda from the fridge. I wasn't squeezing it or doing anything out of the ordinary. I had drank about half the glass and had just taken a sip when it shattered and pointy shards went everywhere, yet I remained unharmed. The second time it happened, I was sitting in my living room when I heard a loud pop and the sound of glass shattering from the kitchen. When I went to look, I found the empty drinking glass I had placed in my empty sink in a million sharp little pieces. In both cases, the only pieces left that were bigger than a quarter were the thickened bottoms of the glasses.
This just heppened to me right now , i was sitting in the living room with my husband and we heard a loud sound of glass shattering we went to check couldn't find it at first every thing seemed in place i got scared then i found a cup that i had sitting inside the sink strainer shattered in small pieces.
Glad my husband is home with me or i would have gotten really scared .
This happened to me as well. Been using that same glass for years, why now. Also had a glass container in my pantry explode! What a mess!
More than fifty years ago I was with a student group trip to France.
We had been travelling all day in hot summer weather. As we sat down for dinner, one girl picked up a tempered drinking glass. It shattered in her hands and she started screaming. The scene and her meltdown remain seared in my memory all these decades later.
Back then, when I was five or six years old, I was taking a shower, when all of a sudden the window broke.
The whole window came down and fell onto me and injured me badly.
And to make it even worse, it also happened a second time months later.
Well, I guess I just had REALLY bad luck!
Oh dang. Glad you're alright now. I assume you fear taking showers now every so often.
@@Goldstein8625 Gladly I'm not afraid of showers. Up until, it never happened again.
@@hungrigeraubkatze113 maybe it’s very cold in your shower and then you turn on the hot water like in canada
@@TheUndeadPyroYT What? That’s ridiculous.
Same thing happened to me but it was a bad sniper.
My glass tv stand just exploded. My tv stand has 3 layer of glass bottom middle and top. The top one exploded and my tv fell over. It happened after I turned my tv on about 5 mins later it exploded scared the shit outta me. It exploded and I had 6 cuts on my feet one is pretty deep just feel real lucky glass didn’t fly in my eyes
The exact same thing just happened to me!
I'm sitting here at 2 in the morning on August 2 2019 and my tempered glass desk just exploded. My monitor is broken, my printer fell and my paperwork is covered in glass. It got into my bed and sheets. It was loud it woke my neighbor up. Jesus that woke me up.
Our High-End Glass Shower Door did that too, just past summer (2020). If there is a small crack or chip somewhere, it will crack on its own if the temperature fluctuate. *NOTE:* After cracking big pieces... The smaller pieces will continue to break like there is energy in them. It went on for about 30 minutes afterward.
This just happened to my shower door.
1:44 To prevent your tempered glass from shattering all over the place maybe a good idea to install peel and stick clear vinyl over it. If it shatters it should stay in place
True, happened to my storm door.
Modern tempered glass is laminated. It depends on the application where it is necessary or not.
Omg that's brilliant! I'm going to do that with the rest of my fridge shelves!
On June 6/2018, I woke to discover the outside panel of my slider glass patio door shattered. The outside screen was closed and locked. That screen door is tight and is intact. The inside pane of the door is also intact and not damaged.
Due to the fact that both the outside screen and the inside panel are intact, the only conclusion I can come to is that there must have been a manufacturing defect.
Glad that You Tube could attest to, although it is a rare occurrence, it does happen!
Thanks again You Tube!
This happened to me at 5am this morning it was the loudest thing ever
I worked in a restaurant where tbe glasses would sometimes shatter from just touching them.
marcjtdc glasses are not made of tempered glass lol
some are. duralex glasses were.
The Great Mechanized Ape A lady brought some glasses from IKEA and it exploded in her mouth broke out her front tooth and slashed under her bottom lip she sued ikea ...a lot of there glass products just spontaneously shatter
I just had a tempered glass explode in my hand five minutes ago.
"Combust"? Lol, try harder.
Someone should send this to Matthias
lol didnt expect to see someone makin a bong in this video but eh good suprise
He is a scientist!
So how and why exactly it randomly shatters?
Here because that just happened with a salad bowl as I set it down in the sink. It literally exploded‼️ I’ve had this bowl for years - big enough to mix a salad in, small enough for single portion. Shocked me into a whole ‘other’ feeling reality. Tanx for the info, and to TH-cam for platforming this important piece of info.👋☺️
It's very rare, which is why it happened to me twice.
Wanna go in on a lottery ticket?
Happened to my PC's side-panel, I've opened it dozens of times to swap in things and it just finally decided to explode one day when I was putting in a new video card. Was under warranty luckily but... Felt like a dingus when I looked down and my feet were covered in glass.
My very expensive glass coffee table I bought from Nordstrom imploded in the middle of the night...it woke up like heavy thunder.
I'm pretty sure that's not normal.
I bet people just fart and it breaks due to the pressure change in the room
Nomad Shah real science
No it breaks because of the radiation!
If you don't get this joke, r/woooosh.
Gotta be a hard fart
It's just happened to me, my glass cup just exploded out of nowhere, I was trying to sleep so you can imagine what hassle it was, I'm glad it happened at a safe distance.
It happened to one of my window today with a loud noise. It was scary!!!
Hi,
I just had this experience early this morning. I heard a bomb
early this morning, my IKEA table exploded on its own, scaring me. I
live alone in my house and never did anything special with it.
I went to IKEA and they treated me like a liar.
What can I do in this case? I am In France.
Please help.
jean laurent Kamgaing my pc case encountered the same issue, and all I did was to write in to the manufacturer and they RMAed it for me
My glass tabletop just exploded out of nowhere, a 40lb circle, nothing heavy on it, rarely used, stsble trmperatures. Chinese fake glass? I understand with something getting wet, hot, pressure etc, but not a static table top.
I had this experience too
But we saw on our CCTV that my glass table popped but not in a thousand pieces.
It suddenly blew without anyone touching it.
just don't gont go to ikea then.
they have a bunch of complaints about this same issue ..that's why they treated you that way sue them...
Anyone else getting this recommended to them after Matthias’ video? 🤣
Jonzy that is weird how it got recommended to me after watching his video
Who is Matthias?
@@c.h8357 overkill
@@MNSB1 who is he????
@@c.h8357 OVERKILL! OVERKILL! OVERKILL!
The tempered glass sliding door window on my mom's old dodge grand caravan cracked while on a road trip. Was incredibly loud, but held together. I thought the person next to us shot at us.
Hoping to find an answer, I was driving yesterday and heard this glass breakings sound, thought I hit something but sure the road was clear..next day, drove at 4am and my right sideview mirror wasn't working and when I checked it, glass was shattered not a big portion though but sure it was loud!
I had a toaster oven where the glass shattered after a few months of using the oven. I found out later the manufacturer was recalling that model of oven over failing glass.
Was sitting there doing nothing, and my glass cup (thick glass cup) cracked on the inside. Loud AF and you can't even feel the crack because it's cracked on the inside.
i think this mightve been what happened bc today in my one class the glass tabletop just like exploded it was so scary
3:35 lol anybody notice middle fingers spray painted
Mine just combusted today, lived at the place for 10+ years, just in the range the video said.
My dad has a display case in my basement that has old Detroit Tigers old stadium stuff. And one time I went down there and glass was every where.
Imagine taking a shower with a tempered glass door and it just explodes on you.
literally just happened to me
I had a empty glass French Press sitting undisturbed on the kitchen counter explode. The shards travelled long distance and when cleaning up the center of the damaged decanter was pulverized almost powder like glass. I was freaked. Thank God no one was near. I thought I had a poltergeist in the house.
I had a tempered glass desktop and it just broke yesterday with a loud bang and glass shards everywhere
I bought a nzxt case that had tampered glass and I was opening the case and placed the panel on its side and when I replaced the side panel back on it just randomly shattered
Few days back my uncle was eating and the plate broke into pieces , today my pottery vase broke too ! It's weird because no body was in the sitting room , plus it didn't fall or anything it just broke spontaneously
Been Tempering Glass for 20 Years. Tempered glass is done the same way Metal is tempered. The difference is the molecular reaction to the process. When glass is tempered the edges and corners expand and contract weakens it on this points. If the glass shatters like that it means, the piece had excess of weak points. Usually created on the cutting and edging process. We supply 87% of glass used on building and housing. All this process is tented in our Research And Development Laboratory.
Do you work for Cardinal?
@@gregcorwin8316 YES I WORK IN CARDINAL.
@@selvin0917 nice! what plant?
@@gregcorwin8316 You work at Cardinal? I work in Georgia
@@selvin0917 I am retired from Cardinal in Wisconsin.
Our rear window on 2017 Ford Transit campervan spontaneously exploded yesterday while I was laying down (it about gave me a heart attack). Luckily we have custom magnetic window blinds because my face was about a foot from the window. Ford has been incredibly irresponsible about covering the replacement of the defective window, even though we provided pictures and a video shortly after it exploded with the sound of the glass continuing to crack.
I am terrified at broken glass since I was a baby, I got a cut from the glass, and it really hurt. I hear glass were thin back than they can easily break.
My brothers tempered glass desk just suddenly exploded on him, pretty horrendous, this is why you should use wood or other more solid material. Glass should be reserved for windows, even plastic is better in most cases if you want it in bathrooms or even a PC case, easier to clean too.
now im scared of my ikea glass desk exploding though ive had it for a good 2 to 3 years now before even hearing about tempered glass
@@Fearagen it’ll eventually explode
@@rezcellent Dang 3 years ago. The same desk is still holding up.
@@Fearagen I had an ashtray just explode on me outta nowhere. Was weird
The painted middle fingers on the car window in the background @ 2:27
In a national television lol
Was washing one of those expensive ceramic frying pans back in 2010 and the thing cracked into 2 pieces in the sink while I was washing it. Was always extremely careful handling it. Called the manufacturer and the guy told me what happened was impossible. Bunch of nonsense, things break, no matter what. Pan had a lifetime warranty so they sent a new one.
Happened last night, I'm in Australia. Sounds like a fucking shotgun blast
The glass has an imperfection somewhere in its manufacture. It’s happened to us with a glass door.
the glass breaks because of immense temperature differences, when the tempered glass is poorly made it can break because the inside expanse because of heat while the rest of the glass stays the same volume.
How do I know if someone hit my slide glass door or if shutter by it self plz reply I just can’t sleep since my slide door was broken at 2:45 am
I just heard one heavey click not hitting again and again
You don’t think “what in the world happened?” when the sound happens right next to your ears, you think “I just got shot”
I had this happen to me with a customer car. I was sitting there about 30 feet away eating lunch, and the side window just randomly popped like you had hit it with a hammer! Either way, it was in my possession and I had to eat the cost of a new window
That’s just rough
When 2 sheets of tempered glass are nearly touching the positive and negative ions or particles can interact in a bad way by causing one to shatter. My Dad had a TV shop yrs ago and back when tvs were huge and heavy, companies would put a thick slab of tempered glass in the box to help protect the picture tube (still makes no sense to me). Anyway we'd have many of these and would use 2 or 3 on our coffee table, side by side. A fellow TV shop owner told my Dad how one of his coffee table glass covers shattered and they discussed why it happens. I was a kid and had to try it myself. Sure enough it shatters 1 of the 2 pieces. It has to be done very slowly and be nearly touching. It's not easy to do it right, but it can be done.
I am here coz my office door suddenly blew up into smithereens after the weekend. The air conditioners were off and there has been a heat wave going on, so my suspicions were correct. Whats the reason u guy are here?
My computer case has a tempered glass side panel that randomly shattered one night. Scared the living hell out of me and made an unholy mess. I'm a little timid about putting the replacement in once it's shipped to me!
so pissed my rear windshield is fuckin shattered
Cami Sweet mine did it this Morning! Some say it is drastic temperature changes
My classroom desk broke today.. it was so weird, a gust of wind came in from the door outside and at first it looked like an earthquake scene, it made all the ceiling tiles shake, and then all of a sudden my classmate's glass top desk seemingly buckled under the wind force and shattered.. it scared everyone.. it threw all of us off.. his stuff went flying to the ground and with it almost him after he lost his poise.. but he was able to catch himself from falling. luckily he didn't get hurt.. it was so unexpected! Didn't know this was a thing! Wow.
My crockpot lid was shattered this morning when I woke up to check on my duck. It was ok in the middle of the night. I had this crockpot for about 2 years and took excellent care of it. I have always cooked larger birds over night especially for the broth. My neighbor's glass broke in his oven about a year ago. So yes, something needs to be done about this.
Can it happen to a washing machine? (more specifically a front loading one with a window in the front)
It happened to me a few yrs ago. The top shelf on my entertainment center (about 5' off the ground) loudly exploded for no reason. It scared the ____ outta me! I looked at the ceiling and thought something had fallen thru and couldn't believe there was no hole, then I looked down and saw the mess - I was still picking up pieces of glass several months later - it was everywhere!
My car moonroof shattered yesterday while I was at work. No projectile damage... just a shattered piece of glass sitting above my head while I drive. Saturday is apparently now, pick a part day.
Anyones with a car window exploded outwards
This just happened to me. The weather was neutral so no extreme temperatures inside or out. I was just driving along and it sounded like a bomb exploded in the car. It looks like the sunroof was hit from the inside. Scared me to death! Luckily, the screen was across the ceiling so we didn't get a glass shower!
Mine happened today. I live in Utah so it’s cold right now and my rear window just shattered
Me
What would we do if we are doing demolition day?
(Remodeling house)
Well this just happened in my bathroom, it sounded like an explosion and glass was scattered more than three meters from the shower. I would hate to be in the shower when something like this occurs.
Plz reply anyone, how I know if my door glass is broken by it self or hit someone else?
Today I was holding a small glass door and when I put it down it shatter everywhere. All the small pieces on the floor were making crackling noises and breaking into smaller pieces on their own..?
Also when it exploded, a shard hit my eye and my eye was blurry for a couple hours
Today our car window broke randomly while in a funeral, such strange
hey i went to my cousins house he when we opened the door, the glass randomely started to collapse without a single touch
I had a piece explode on it's own in the closet where I saved glass in the workshop. I wondered what caused that.
My bathroom scale just exploded. It was a little weird til I saw this..
Just happened to me, sounded like an explosion and we were quite scared an intruder had broken a window. The glass door of our 2 year old daughter's shower exploded spontaneously, fortunately it happend almost at midnight because I can't imagine that happening with her showering. No one got hurt but with those chunky shards also came lots of tiny glass pieces that you can't see but shine in the light, they start cutting your fingertips and better yet, if you're naked and right in front of the glass when it explodes it could be dangerous.
justed happened to me mate, thankfully nobody was in the shower but the sound was scary 😮😮 i immediately grabbed my gun running outside thinking someone shot my car or something
happened to me 11:30pm shower screen was near 8' by 6' about 1" thick, strange if someone was in there every shatter glass would have cut them to shreds
Your 2 year old daughter has a shower?
My mom had a 1" thick round glass table that exploded - she was around 15' away and still received cuts on one of her legs. If she was sitting at the table, it would have resulted in major injury or could have killed her.
glass explodes because:
it was manufactured cheaply and the surface tension is bigger than the inner material tension.
A glass of cup broke in my kitchen by itself
I lifted a pool panel today and in mid air carrying it it expected so the do exploded for no reason sometimes.
Haha I work at a glass cutting and tempering plant this happens alot at least 3 to 4 pieces a day
Does anybody do a frag count on the glass that randomly blows up??? Do you run a test piece before production/changing thickness and record the frag count?????
This happened with me...I was absolutely surprised...I kept looking for clues of how the glass just randomly exploded.
I picked up a glass ones and ik exploded in my hands. It was not sharp.
i was in the kitchen and a plate was on the stove and when i put it down it exploded so i think it can explode if glass gets overheated
I remember a Pyrex dish making a high pitched noise and suddenly exploded. I had pieces of glass in the kitchen, dining room, and my office. I put my arm up right before the explosion. I had to pull tiny fragments out of my arm with tweezers.
Was cleaning my PC. Gentrly tried to mount the tampered glass panel back on the pc case itself when it suddenly exploded.
I was holding the glass with 4 finger tips. Still very confused about the fact. I was very gentle and I did not put pressure on the glass in any way.
Happened to me too, very random.
Dang and i thought i had some random power to make things break or explode... my dreams were shatterd like the glass from my rice cooker lid.
Yup, i've had tempered oven doors explode, it's odd lol
I just wanted technical information about tempered glass broken.. please can I get helpline no. Or mail ID or PDI report
But my car back mirror suddenly shatter by it self in 11pm , when we went out to check it was shattered,we check the cctv footage and no one was there any explanation?
They forgot to tell you that the outside layers are heated but not all the way through! If a rock comes up and chips the surface and happens to chip it 1/2 way through, when the center is exposed to air, that is what causes it to break in a million pieces! The other thing they forgot to tell you is the exposed edge is the most vulnerable! If you slide a frame-less shower door too hard and it smacks the center bumper causing it to lift off the top track and the bottom edge hits the metal sides, that door will break!!
Also the problem with the heavier tempered glass like 3/8 or 1/2 inch is when they break, they do the same thing, (crack into many small pieces) but because of the thickness and weight, the pieces stay together in bigger chunks ( 4 to 6 inch chunks ) and when they fall 3 to 5 feet, they can do a lot more damage to your body then just little minor cuts and abrasions!
A side note, don't use your towel bars as handicapped bars to lift your self or support your weight cause the holes in the glass make it weaker their too! My recommendation is to have a framed shower! It still looks nice and you're only dealing with 1inch of metal that covers the sides. Never have I heard or seen a framed unit with no holes blow up spontaneously! It's always the frame - less ones!
It happened to one of my very window got creacks all around from the middle to upper side but no clue what happened. It was cold outside around 46F but no accident no point of contact with any other thing.inside glass is fine outer glass shattered
Yesterday, My stove with tempered glass explode but luckly my kitchen is ok
I went to my friends house when he got his first pc he peeled off the film from the glass panel and it shattered
This literally just happened to us last night. We heard what we thought was an explosion or firework from outside. Come to find out this morning, it was one of the glass shelves from inside our fridge. I spent the entire morning throwing away perfectly good food and cleaning large and miniscule glass shards out of everywhere. : (
This JUST happened to us! It's early evening here and it's been hot this whole summer (South Africa) - so no "extreme temperature changes". We had dinner, then watched something in the living room and we heard an explosion. It was so loud that I thought it came from the outside! Our neighbour even came out to see what was going on. As I was checking every room one by one, the door to the en-suite bathroom in the main bedroom scratched on something. ALL the glass of the shower exploded - leaving tiny pieces scattered throughout the room. It wasn't just one door (the shower has two sliding doors and two glass side walls) - everything exploded all at once. We just left it as is and contacted the insurance. I can find records of this happening everywhere without ONE single explanation as to why it really happened. No one was in the room and the door was closed! Should we call a priest, too? It scared the living crap out of me. I just hope the insurance will pay for it. It'll suck having to pay for something you really have no idea of what happened.
You don't call the insurance company over shower doors. Nothing they can do about it and you will just raise your insurance premiums. You call who made the shower doors, but really unless they are brand new just installed you're out of luck on that.
I think that tempered glass is being made in a way that makes it more susceptible to spontaneous breakage in the last twenty or so years. For example, Pyrex dishes were once made of borosilicate glass, but is now made of sodium lime glass.
@@HeleneLouise That shower couldn't have been older than 4 years. That's how old the building is. Two others (exact same design) are still original and absolutely fine. It was just a freak explosion.