Tempered Safety Glass Shower Doors

The most common and appropriate glass used in shower doors and enclosures is fully tempered safety glass.

Tempered safety glass shower doors.

At glass doctor you ll get safe and stunning glass shower doors. Features frameless shower with barn door type sliding operation coordinates with passage 60 in. Glass doors there is a mandatory federal safety standard for glass in shower and bathtub enclosures doors storm doors and glass sliding doors. For that reason almost all glass used architecturally in public places is required by code to be tempered safety glass.

But while this is the greatest strength of tempered glass it is also a weakness. 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. You also find tempered glass in residential settings for shower doors patio tables skylights and oven windows. 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.

It s important to note that actual injuries from exploding shower door glass are very rare. Glass shower doors and enclosures can shatter seemingly without warning. It takes a serious impact to break and when it does it shatters into small granular chunks instead of large shards. Call us today at 855 603 1919 for a free in home consultation.

Shower base clear 3 8 in. Delta shower doors are made with tempered glass much like the glass used in automobiles and airplanes. Law requires that professionals use tempered glass when building shower doors. Sometimes they do so when no one is even in the room which is known as a spontaneous blow.

Tempered glass when it shatters breaks into small pebbly relatively harmless fragments. Fortunately federal codes require that glass shower doors be made of tempered safety glass. The tempered glass connection. Another name for this type of glass is toughened glass.

Glass shower doors can shatter suddenly tempered glass is designed for safety but can have imperfections. The glass is designed with safety in mind. That s because the tempering process used to create safety glass causes it to break into very small pieces rather than large sharp shards. 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.

This means that when shattering happens the glass breaks into many small pieces. Tempered glass should rupture into small fragmented pieces and not into larger shards if shattered.