One of my shower doors spontaneously shattered whilst i was using the shower.
Shower door shattered by itself uk.
6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill.
My theory was that the metal towel holder hanging over the top of the door may have caused the shattering heat expansion pressure.
Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise.
If you ve tried to clean your shower door and hardware to no avail if you notice a crack in the glass or even if the door shattered it s time to seek a higher power.
Your local glass professional.
Experts say it could happen if the door was incorrectly installed or if the rubber stoppers or runners on the bottom are damaged.
The door can slip out of the hinges or out of the track when you open it.
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.
A hanging glass shower door that falls from its track for example may shatter quite easily.
It is conceivable that some of the exploding shower doors occur because one of the top rollers loosens causing the door to fall an inch or two shattering on impact.
As it was a couple of years old and fitted by my oh i didn t fancy a fight with bathstore just lived with missing door.
So how can a shower door all of a sudden shatter.