Shower Door Randomly Shattered

So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter.

Shower door randomly shattered.

Yet there s a rare and terrifying problem. One minute the shower door was completely intact. The next minute it was fragmented into minute pieces and the noise of the shattering was very loud sometimes described as deafening. Hours or days later the door will then.

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. At 2 20 this morning i was awoken by the sound of my shower door shattering. However as i lay there and tried to go back to sleep i heard what sounded like water dripping in the bathroom. I got up to check it out and found that my shower door was shattered and the sound i was hearing was.

6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. 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. 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 breakage was never a crack that progressed into pieces of glass tinkling to the floor.

The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it. The glass did not simply crack it shattered explosively. Shower doors spontaneously shattering sometimes while a person is showering resulting in wet naked injured people. I was sleeping pretty soundly so i didn t realize what woke me and i don t remember hearing the crash.

Experts say it could happen if the door was incorrectly installed or if the rubber stoppers or runners on the bottom are damaged. That happened to a nine year old. Originally manufacturers of shower doors were certain that consumers who reported cases of spontaneous shower door explosion were mistaken. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.