Cool Halloween cats you got btw. Maybe they cursed it.
redrover765 on
This unfortunately happens with temperature changes with untempered glass ☹
PacquiaoFreeHousing on
it looks to be tempered glass, maybe you made it angry, so it broke itself…
rawbran30 on
Why tf is this posted here? Also guarantee you didn’t just “walk in” and see it broken. Lies.
LostinQuiddity on
Reason number 462 to use shower curtains
millionwordsofcrap on
That is gonna be a nightmare to pull out and replace. How do you even start??
Hefty_Buffalo8768 on
Freakin teenagers. It’s why people can’t have nice things. Get a curtain, but expect to replace it every quarter.
kytheon on
I feel that little hook in the top left is a hint.
Mazapenguin on
I sell shower cabins for a living and I can tell you it can happen. Tempered is very fragile at the corners and you just need a small shock in those weak spots to shatter it. If a hinge gets loose and the door collapses, it explodes. If the house walls “moves” (due to normal ground movements or earthquakes) it can compress the glass too much and it explodes. If the glass contains impurities such as nickel sukfide (glass cancer) it can lead to internal cracks overtime and explodes on its own.
It’s rare luckily but it can happen
lordofming-rises on
Thats batman call!
IIRCIreadthat on
It’s tempered. Sometimes a tiny fracture on the vulnerable edge of the glass sheet suddenly expands and shatters the whole panel. It’s all surface tension, so once the edge goes it all goes.
AT1313 on
Happened in my office once. Came in Monday 7.30am, entered my floor could hear a faint crackling sound, turned on the lights and saw one of the glass walls for a meeting room was shattered. What was peculiar no one came in or out after Friday. The glass looked like the impact came from inside the room, so the theory was the weekend was so hot that the air in the closed room expanded or there was a fault in the glass that finally gave way.
wskv on
I thought this was r/pcmasterrace for a sec
pedro_pascal_123 on
Yeah, that was me. Sorry! I was trying to get this giant spider. It might have gotten in via that hole though… The good news is now you have a companion while taking a shower…
letsdonewthings on
If it happened by itself, it might be a sign of having pressure on the frame, maybe because the floor has receded. Are you on the ground floor? If not, you might want to check the house’ structure.
excessivepenetration on
The cause is the pressure from that white inside hook where its touching the glass, most likely. I wouldn’t say this is your “fault” but unless it was a random inclusion in the manufacturing process, it was caused by repeated small stresses from something impinging on the glass.
Or the hooks you hung on the frame got towels on them or something that caused the frame to pinch the edge of the tempered glass panel.
Bad luck OP.
happy_and_proud on
Residual stresses.
TryingToBeReallyCool on
Real answer, likely a bad install that applied pressure against the panel and over time it failed. Hope it’s in warranty
Narrow_Professor7756 on
That must be a pane.
Hashbaz on
Tempered glass can be really finicky. If it gets even a micro fracture that you would never see without a microscope it can shatter. I had a glass monitor stand that just a few days ago just exploded sending glass all over me and my desk. I was just chilling watching a YouTube video and about had a heart attack.
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I’m shattered 💔
What was hanging connected to the glass?
At least you have privacy now.
Cool Halloween cats you got btw. Maybe they cursed it.
This unfortunately happens with temperature changes with untempered glass ☹
it looks to be tempered glass, maybe you made it angry, so it broke itself…
Why tf is this posted here? Also guarantee you didn’t just “walk in” and see it broken. Lies.
Reason number 462 to use shower curtains
That is gonna be a nightmare to pull out and replace. How do you even start??
Freakin teenagers. It’s why people can’t have nice things. Get a curtain, but expect to replace it every quarter.
I feel that little hook in the top left is a hint.
I sell shower cabins for a living and I can tell you it can happen. Tempered is very fragile at the corners and you just need a small shock in those weak spots to shatter it. If a hinge gets loose and the door collapses, it explodes. If the house walls “moves” (due to normal ground movements or earthquakes) it can compress the glass too much and it explodes. If the glass contains impurities such as nickel sukfide (glass cancer) it can lead to internal cracks overtime and explodes on its own.
It’s rare luckily but it can happen
Thats batman call!
It’s tempered. Sometimes a tiny fracture on the vulnerable edge of the glass sheet suddenly expands and shatters the whole panel. It’s all surface tension, so once the edge goes it all goes.
Happened in my office once. Came in Monday 7.30am, entered my floor could hear a faint crackling sound, turned on the lights and saw one of the glass walls for a meeting room was shattered. What was peculiar no one came in or out after Friday. The glass looked like the impact came from inside the room, so the theory was the weekend was so hot that the air in the closed room expanded or there was a fault in the glass that finally gave way.
I thought this was r/pcmasterrace for a sec
Yeah, that was me. Sorry! I was trying to get this giant spider. It might have gotten in via that hole though… The good news is now you have a companion while taking a shower…
If it happened by itself, it might be a sign of having pressure on the frame, maybe because the floor has receded. Are you on the ground floor? If not, you might want to check the house’ structure.
The cause is the pressure from that white inside hook where its touching the glass, most likely. I wouldn’t say this is your “fault” but unless it was a random inclusion in the manufacturing process, it was caused by repeated small stresses from something impinging on the glass.
Or the hooks you hung on the frame got towels on them or something that caused the frame to pinch the edge of the tempered glass panel.
Bad luck OP.
Residual stresses.
Real answer, likely a bad install that applied pressure against the panel and over time it failed. Hope it’s in warranty
That must be a pane.
Tempered glass can be really finicky. If it gets even a micro fracture that you would never see without a microscope it can shatter. I had a glass monitor stand that just a few days ago just exploded sending glass all over me and my desk. I was just chilling watching a YouTube video and about had a heart attack.