Tempered Safety Glass Shower Doors

Custom shower walls and passage 60 in.

Tempered safety glass shower doors.

Features frameless shower with barn door type sliding operation coordinates with passage 60 in. Glass shower doors can shatter suddenly tempered glass is designed for safety but can have imperfections. Glass doors there is a mandatory federal safety standard for glass in shower and bathtub enclosures doors storm doors and glass sliding doors. At glass doctor you ll get safe and stunning glass shower doors.

Law requires that professionals use tempered glass when building shower doors. It takes a serious impact to break and when it does it shatters into small granular chunks instead of large shards. You also find tempered glass in residential settings for shower doors patio tables skylights and oven windows. Call us today at 855 603 1919 for a free in home consultation.

The most common and appropriate glass used in shower doors and enclosures is fully tempered safety glass. The glass is designed with safety in mind. This means that when shattering happens the glass breaks into many small pieces. There are safety standards in place for some consumer products that use tempered glass.

Shower base clear 3 8 in. But while this is the greatest strength of tempered glass it is also a weakness. This type of glass is used in these applications because of its strength typically 4 5 times stronger and more resistant to breakage than ordinary annealed glass and if it does break it tends to break into small and much less harmful. Tempered glass when it shatters breaks into small pebbly relatively harmless fragments.

The tempered glass connection. 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. Delta shower doors are made with tempered glass much like the glass used in automobiles and airplanes. Tempered glass should rupture into small fragmented pieces and not into larger shards if shattered.

Sometimes they do so when no one is even in the room which is known as a spontaneous blow. Fortunately federal codes require that glass shower doors be made of tempered safety glass. Another name for this type of glass is toughened glass. Glass shower doors and enclosures can shatter seemingly without warning.

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. For that reason almost all glass used architecturally in public places is required by code to be tempered safety glass.