Safety Sliding Glass Door Shattered

Recently manufacturers of patio and sliding glass doors started using tempered glass in their products.

Safety sliding glass door shattered.

It takes a serious impact to break and when it does it shatters into small granular chunks instead of large shards. Spontaneous breakage is a relatively well known in the glass industry but somewhat rare phenomenon associated with tempered safety glass. I think we have the details for the contractor that installed the doors 15 years ago and will give them a call to discuss repairs. A rock launched by a lawnmower just shattered the glass on our andersen brand sliding patio door.

Delta shower doors are made with tempered glass much like the glass used in automobiles and airplanes. Although tempered glass in general is stronger than non tempered glass especially when it comes to direct impacts to the face of the glass it can still break. Since tempered glass is twice as strong as ordinary glass patio doors are not broken as easily as they once were. One rather common cause of tempered spontaneous breakage is known as a nickel sulfide inclusion.

Poor edge quality there are many potential causes for spontaneous breakage of tempered glass. However patio glass doors are not invincible and can shatter in high winds or if they are struck with a hard object. The glass is designed with safety in mind.