So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter.
Shower door randomly shattered.
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.
One minute the shower door was completely intact.
Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people.
Hours or days later the door will then.
I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was.
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.
I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash.
Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem.
Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken.
The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening.
Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise.
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.
The good thing is that tempered glass is made to break safely.
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 breakage was never a crack that progressed into pieces of glass tinkling to the floor.
6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill.
However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom.
The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.