I really need a logical explanation for this!!!

[Diamondsinthesky5]

Just wondered if anyone had a logical explanation for this or if it’s happened to anyone else?!

We have a walk in shower which has a glass door on it. Randomly one night it smashed and shattered. I was drifting off to sleep and heard what sounded like an explosion and thought someone had smashed something off the window. I woke up and ran in and found the entire glass shower door shattered.

There wasn’t any (obvious) damage to it and nothing different to usual in terms of temperature changes. That shower also hadn’t been used for about 24 hours. I have no idea what could cause it, does anyone else know?

I’ve managed to spook myself out (watching too many scary films!) as we only moved into this house recently and was working a specific pattern of shifts that would have me showering after work at an unusual time (2am). I actually had gone straight to bed and hadn’t showered like usual as I was tired but the shower door smashed at 2am and i would have been using the shower if I hadn’t decided just to go to bed. It’s just a concidence I know, but my brain keeps trying to convince me it’s spooky and I need a logical explanation😂

Happened to my sliding glass door. Glazier said it’s much more common than you’d think.

This happen to me too;literally just shattered whilst I was putting the washing on the line;the neighbour had the same table and got rid of it after what happened to ours.

A section of our glass pool fence did this recently literally minutes after the children got out the pool. Super scary.
Thank goodness you are ok.

I came to suggest Nickel Sulphide Inclusion but saw that someone beat me to it. NSI happened to a pane in my bifold door - it spontaneously shattered in the middle of the night (sounded like a gunshot). It had a telltale "butterfly" pattern from the weak point and on closer inspection I could actually see the tiny speck of nickel! However, if your shower door is in pieces on the floor, you won't be able to examine the shatter pattern.

This scary. Is it standard for all this to be safety glass?

It happens. An over-tightened fitment can build up stress in the glass to the point that it shatters. It can take years.

I came down to a shattered oven door one morning. The oven was at least 15 years old and hadn't overheated or even been used that weekend.

This happened to a roof pane in my conservatory with my DD sitting underneath. My husband heard a bang and thought a seagull had hit it, he looked up and saw it starting to bow inwards and grabbed DD and ran. Behind them, the entire pans came down, he got her just in time. Took HOURS to clean up. Wasn’t a bird as it turned out to be an inside pane of a double glazed roof. Was just stress fracture exacerbated by heat.

This happened to me about 4years ago. I was downstairs, and heard a sound like a ton of gravel hitting glass. Rushed upstairs to find one of the sliding showers doors had shattered.No one upstairs, hadn’t been used since the night before.
I read up about it, and found it is quite common, and had it replaced with Perspex! Scared the shit out too me, and a bugger to clear up!

A glass panel on my garden table shattered yesterday and I know several people who have experienced exploding shower doors.

Don't worry your house isn't haunted.

My shower did what you describe. The loud bang and the shattering of glass. It was just the result of wrongfully applied tension over time finally resulting in the shatter. Ours had only been in place for a year or two, so it took that long, if yours isn't new then I'd disorganised its been rehung and the tension was incorrect.

Agree with 'it is just physics' above. Of course it is not something spooky, it is just a piece of glass that broke.

What everyone else said, and also - just be glad nobody was in the shower when it happens.

A glass shower screen exploded over our bath a few years ago - while DC then 3 was in it.

Nothing quite as terrifying as seeing your toddler sat in a bath full of shattered glass. Luckily it was safety glass and we got away with only superficial, though plentiful, scratches.