Basically I have a shower with a big glass pane and I was in bed and heard a massive crash and went to look thinking someone might be breaking in but no the shower glass pane shattered itself and nothing can fall on it or anything. So I’m so confused. Any ideas?
And before anyone jumps to anything paranormal I’m sceptical of that type of stuff.
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Definitely ghosts. Shower ghosts. Clean shower ghosts. Clumsy clean shower ghosts.
This is ectoplasm!
;)
While this isn’t about shower panes and the specific details probably don’t apply to your shower (well, hopefully), NileRed has a video demonstrating how glass that looks undamaged can have small stresses or flaws that cause it to spontaneously shatter.
This is kinda exactly related lol
Excellent!
Yeah thank you, gives me an idea of how glass can react to things.
If it genuinely helped, I’m genuinely happy to have done so.
My shower door hasn’t shattered, but it has its own problems - I’m pretty sure the previous owner of the house tried to make it luxurious but had no idea what he was doing (as is tradition). Hoping I can learn some things about glass shower panes myself!
Yes it helped, the more I know about things like this the better it’ll help me in the future
I’m guessing there were stresses already there from how it was being held in place. Expansion and contraction (from warming and cooling) exacerbated the stress until failure.
The builders could have improperly built the shower, and after time with the imbalanced weight it shattered. Happened to me about a year ago
Interesting, I’ll take a closer look when I get a chance
This can happen if you tighten any screws/knuts that hold it in place too much. It creates enough stress that when there is enough of a temperature change, the weakeness presented by the fixture can cause it to shatter.
Seems like you got your answer, but I’d also like to say sorry that your shower broke! I’m sure it was nasty to clean up and now it has to be replaced which is likely either an unexpected cost or your landlord’s problem, in which case I hope you have a responsive landlord.
I appreciate it and we own the house, so we had to explain it directly to the person who fitted the bathroom with the shower and what not, they understood the situation and they cleared it up for free but we decided to not have another glass pane fitted and instead use a shower curtain
My tempered glass sunroof blew apart while I was driving. Manufacturing defect. A woman had the same problem the same week (2015 glass, around 2019).
It was insanely loud. Like a shotgun going off by your head. :p
Very loud especially when it’s nighttime and everyone is in bed and it’s quiet, like I literally went into defence mode thinking there was someone breaking in through a window or something lol
