Safety Glass Shower Doors

Tempered glass also known as toughened glass is made by heating annealed glass uniformly.

Safety glass shower doors.

At glass doctor you ll get safe and stunning glass shower doors. A similar danger lurks in many bathrooms in the form of shower doors. Fortunately federal codes require that glass shower doors be made of tempered safety glass. Because heat strengthened glass fractures into large jagged pieces it does not qualify as a safety glazing material.

Safety glass and shower doors. Kohler revel 70 in h x 56 625 in to 59 625 in w frameless bypass sliding anodized brushed nickel shower door clear glass item 648011. What is tempered glass. Tempered glass also known as tempered safety glass is defined as glass that is heat treated to be stronger and more durable than standard annealed glass up to four times stronger.

Shower base clear 3 8 in. While these smaller pieces are definitely less dangerous than non tempered glass lacerations can still occur. Before the 1980s many sliding doors were constructed using dangerous plate glass instead of the safer tempered glass or in rarer cases laminated. Features frameless shower with barn door type sliding operation coordinates with passage 60 in.

This means that when shattering happens the glass breaks into many small pieces rather than large jagged pieces. Another name for this type of glass is toughened glass. Showering behind safety glass. Although it s an unlikely and rare occurrence for the glass in a shower door to break the prospect of broken glass in a bathroom is not a pleasant one.

Consumer product safety commission cpsc reports more than 60 complaints from across the u s. All building codes require safety glazing for shower doors commercial doors and storefronts for safety purposes. If you ve ever bumped into a shower door you ve probably wondered what would happen if it shattered. In a previous article we discussed the dangers of sliding doors particularly those made of standard plate glass rather than tempered or safety glass.

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. Call us today at 855 603 1919 for a free in home consultation. Over the last eight years of shower doors shattering for seemingly no reason.