Shatterproof Glass Shower Doors

A glass shower door can break even if no one s in the bathroom.

Shatterproof glass shower doors. All glass in the bathroom or around a hot tub or sauna must consist of safety glass if the bottom edge is less than 60 inches above a standing or walking surface such as the shower floor. It takes a serious impact to break and when it does it shatters into small granular chunks instead of large shards. This glass is designed to shatter to avoid having large jagged shards of dangerous broken glass. The glass door can also crack if it s mishandled like if it s roughly opened or closed.

In the event that your shower door breaks tempered glass will cause the glass to break into dull cubes while regular glass will break into jagged shards. Shower base clear 3 8 in. 6 2012 larry kucharik 64 of oak park ill. A hanging glass shower door that falls from its track for example may shatter quite easily.

A small side edge fracture say from slamming the door can make the whole door crack to pieces hours or days later. Delta shower doors are made with tempered glass much like the glass used in automobiles and airplanes. It s called a spontaneous blow and it can happen because the glass is tempered. Thick tempered glass for safety easy to clean glass helps prevent streaking by sheeting the water to carry away dirt reversible door opening installs with sliding door on left or right.

Get free shipping on qualified shatter resistant glass plastic sheets or buy online pick up in store today in the building materials department. Meaning if you were to drop the glass on its side it would instantly shatter. 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. Safety glass also known as tempered glass is often used for shower screens.

This makes the glass much stronger against direct impact but weakens it against side impact. Showering behind safety glass. Was having his morning coffee when his wife alerted him to a strange noise. The glass is designed with safety in mind.

There is an incredibly detailed manufacturing process to achieve this. Call us today at 855 603 1919 for a free in home consultation. 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. At glass doctor you ll get safe and stunning glass shower doors.

Most glass shower doors are put through a process called tempering where its tensile strength is altered during a heating process. Custom shower walls and passage 60 in.