Shower Door Randomly Shattered

One minute the shower door was completely intact.

Shower door randomly shattered.

I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash. I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was. The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it. However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom.

The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening. 6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. 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. The glass did not simply crack it shattered explosively.

So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter. Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken. That happened to a nine year old. Experts say it could happen if the door was incorrectly installed or if the rubber stoppers or runners on the bottom are damaged.

Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed. 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. 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. 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. Hours or days later the door will then.