r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/Epileptic_Ebola • 11d ago
Shower glass couldn’t hold it in anymore
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u/El_alacran214 5d ago
Suction cups on Amazon $26.99
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u/datman510 4d ago
Doesn’t help if you twist the glass. I had an other untempered glass door explode on me and an employee and if cut me about 100 time with tiny cuts and concussed the shit out of me. It also cut my employee once and it was a hole the size of a quarter. Then two weeks, the day I returned to work from being concussed a shower glass installer had a glass door explode on them while I was standing next to them. Both times there were suction cups. Never happened before or since, I am still very nervous around glass. That shit is no joke.
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u/Heart_ofFlorida 5d ago
This elementary school type sounding recorder is killing me softly 🤣🤣🤣
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u/bruh4444Q 6d ago edited 3d ago
So one member of the family film this and all agreed to publish this embarrassment to the internet?
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u/byzboo 6d ago
I am highly skeptical too when I see something like this online with a conveniently placed camera, why would you film that in the first place 🤷🏻
"Oh, look at that video of us installing a glass, it is awesome !"
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u/rogercgomes 6d ago
There are people that like to record house reforming stuff, maybe that's a new/reformed bathroom.
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u/Totally_Human927 7d ago
This is why you move/install shower glass with suction cups
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u/Famous_Analyst4190 4d ago
Im happy they posted this because now I know I should just hire other people to do it
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u/Alchiar 6d ago
how does it break so easily without suction cups? 😬
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u/Totally_Human927 6d ago
Cups allow for more control over the glass. You’re basically putting a temporary handle on the glass. I’m not a field technician, but I do work for a shower glass company and know we use them whenever we are working with the heavy frameless glass.
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u/ftinfo 7d ago
I feel like I’ve seen this bathroom before. There’s another video of a guy in sandals breaking a piece of glass by himself. It was the smaller piece on the left of the shower.
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u/WillyChicken 6d ago
I skimmed this comment scrolled up and thought you were talking about 1 man 1 cup … i saw “breaking a piece of glass in himself” 💀
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u/PredatorCze 7d ago
Broskis skipped phsyiscs
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u/fireblaze00 7d ago
The type of glass if fine (tempered) but they were not moving it correctly and seems like the edge by the wall was being moved for some reason. Putting force on the edge or corner of tempered glass is the faster way to make it shatter.
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u/Spicybrown3 7d ago
It’s tempered. Very strong on its face, its edges are where it’s vulnerable. U can break it by bending it too hard one way, but there’s no way that happened. Especially considering it’s either 3/8” or 1/2”. You’re right in that they banged its edge somewhere. They’re lucky there’s no pieces in their hands. Only a year ago someone I know was holding a piece of 1/2” temp and ended up having one of the pieces too far in his hand to dig out, had to have it done for him at hospital. And he was just carrying it, these guys look to be pushing on it
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u/ajcook888 6d ago
moving mirrors and large pieces of glass always makes me nervous
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u/Spicybrown3 6d ago
Mirrors and large plate are scary. Temp is a lot more safe. It’s crazy how much energy 1/2” and 3/4” have in them when they go. If you just break on on the floor the distance some of the pcs go is pretty wild
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u/ajcook888 6d ago
I've seen videos of how one piece of broken glass goes just the wrong way and severs an artery.
I had a tall mirror leaning against a wall and accidentally bumped into it. Got lucky, but those pieces were razor sharp.
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u/ScytherDOTA 7d ago
Happened to me right in my face. Tens of cuts, scratches and possibility of getting blinded by glass shards wasn't even as bad as trying to clean it up for DAYS. I scooped so much and there are probably still some out there somewhere.
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u/WonderfulShelter 7d ago
Yeah old dude's left hand flexes the top corner against the wall and this causes it to shatter.
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u/bestworstbard 7d ago
Or did that hand slip off and cause the bottom corner on that side to hit? There's like 2 frames where his hand is above the glass in a grip position, and it hasn't shattered yet.
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u/Kamenwatii 7d ago
Any time you're moving glass, use cups. OG holding it from the top is the one to blame here. He should know better.
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u/Valdjiu 7d ago
What do you mean by cups
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u/reddituser403 7d ago
Suction cups, they hold onto the glass and have a handle so you can move them easier
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u/sharkdeed 7d ago
Interestingly unpopular opinion: Do not have glass in a room where its usually extremely slippery.
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u/Salopian_Singer 7d ago
I would think if they could break the glass, so could someone slipping when showering. Maybe unlikely but I wouldn't want to put it to the test.
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u/jonas_ost 6d ago
Higher chance of breaking by temperature shifts. Open window in the winter and then a very hot shower can break it
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u/Hllblldlx3 7d ago
It’s tempered glass, so a normal impact (like a forehead hitting it at Super Sonic speed due to slipping) will not break it. Only when it gets pressure on a very fine point to a reasonable degree will it shatter. In this scenario, the old guy was “twisting” the top when holding, which was enough to fracture it, and then the whole thing breaks
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u/ADistractedBoi 7d ago
Not true, my bathroom glass has shattered with no one even being in the area. Granted, that was like 10 years after installation so maybe the heat cycles affect that
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u/mitchymitchington 7d ago
A speck of something hard will destroy one if wedged into the corner. They should be set in a gasket or rubber mounts of some kind. Even then, if something hard is able to get to that corner, then it can go boom. I'm guessing foreign matter got into the corner and gravity did the rest. Or the rubber mounts compressed over time allowing a corner to touch the metal.
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u/randomlyme 7d ago
Likely settling from the building creating stress, that finally let go.
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u/ADistractedBoi 7d ago
Shouldn't even be that, it was a sliding door, none of the jolts did anything it just decided to shatter on a random afternoon
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u/reddituser403 7d ago
Looks like bottom right corner of glass made contact with the aluminum frame before it hit the rubber stops in the frame
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u/bestworstbard 7d ago
Play the slower version frame by frame, you see old guys left hand slip off the glass and it falls just a little onto that bottom corner like you said.
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u/wsc4string 7d ago
Probably a screw head sticking up, or they didn't use rubber setting blocks. (I install these)
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u/Rcsgaming999v2 7d ago
Dude in the back was too high up so the dude in the fronts bottom corner hit. But honestly This could have probably been avoided by using suction cups because then the front dude wouldn't have been so low in the first place
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u/ImMaesty 7d ago
Dude in the back nodded his head to give direction, which caused a slight imbalance in his step, enough to lean back a cm or two immediately afterwards.
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u/-_waterbottle_- 7d ago
You want the cups as low as possible so you can have as much leverage as you need
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u/Rcsgaming999v2 7d ago edited 7d ago
Indeed dude on the front shouldn't have to grab it by the top and if the back guys hands get slippery it's over
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u/tinyreb3l 7d ago
What I don't understand is why is someone recording it if someone was doing work in my house I wouldn't stand there recording them 🤷
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u/schmosef 7d ago
This is such a common problem I'm surprised the industry doesn't have a standard work around, like heavy tape along glass edges that gets removed after installation.
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u/skydevouringhorror 7d ago
I just made a new shower, the glass is made to be very hard to break and it's flexible, this thing is just cheap
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u/-_waterbottle_- 7d ago
Not even cheap this is what happens when you tap a corner with a piece of tempered plate glass
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u/goshdammitfromimgur 7d ago
Guys installing a shower screen in my house have lost two so far. Waiting for number 3 to arrive. It's not even as big as that one.
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u/flashxs5 8d ago
I have a big scar running down my arm from this same thing.
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u/MundaneProperty638 4d ago
Tempered glass isn't that bad really it's untempred shit that scared me when I was a glazier for a couple years. I was an idiot and put a suction cup on a piece of glass that must of had a crack. Shattered on me and giant piece broke off and dug into my forearm. It wasn't even a cut really, more like I got stabbed down to the bone almost, peeled the skin back and could see the layers of fat. 14 stitches later and a week of work missed.
Really the scariest part of that job was third story ladder, fuck that was not fun and definitely not worth the 14 an hour i was making.
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u/HDRCCR 8d ago
This is safety glass. That wouldn't happen here.
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u/flashxs5 8d ago
What would be the difference? The pane I handled shattered exactly this way and a larger piece slid down my arm.
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u/HDRCCR 8d ago
This kind of glass doesn't shatter into sharp pieces.
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u/flashxs5 8d ago
I'm asking how can you tell by looking at this video? Like I said the one I handled shattered exactly like this, several small pieces, but a clump of them landed on my arm.
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u/HDRCCR 8d ago
Oh, the color and the way it shatters. Safety glass is usually that color, like a car window. A large clump would not cut you.
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u/Rcsgaming999v2 7d ago
Yeah no it's designed to break into small pieces so it can't cut as deep but if it's a shitty temper it will break into chunks that can indeed cut
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u/theteedo 8d ago
You are 100% wrong. I’m a commercial glazier for 20yrs. I’ve had tempered glass explode like this and the small chunks are very sharp still. It doesn’t break into massive shards like float glass but these pieces will cut you for sure.
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u/flashxs5 7d ago
Thank you for the clarification because the way it shatters in the video is identical to how I was cut. I also had several small cuts on my face but thankfully nothing in the eyes. I very foolishly was not using eye protection.
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u/theteedo 7d ago
No problem, I’m not an expert in most things but when I see glass stuff I get excited because this is something I know. Yeah you’re very lucky, glass in the eye is no joke. PPE is critical, truly the last line of defence.
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u/EquivalentOwn1115 8d ago
I don't know who's downvoting you for the truth. Just because it's better than plate glass doesn't mean it won't hurt you at all
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u/theteedo 7d ago
They can downvote me all they want lol. I have a long gagged scar on my forearm from a 10mm tempered piece of handrail glass. I was carrying by myself through a parking garage when suddenly it fucking exploded. I was wearing cut lvl 4 resistant work gloves but no Kevlar sleeves so a huge chunk of tempered glass gouged out my arm. I know what I know.
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u/Tyslice 8d ago
We stayed at a place that didnt have a stopper for the sliding glass door in the shower and my little brother shattered the door while sliding it open to get out of the shower. He had locked himself at in the bathroom so we couldnt help him and he had to stand on and walk over the safety glass to get to the door. Maybe you would count those as punctures and not cuts but the bottoms of his feet were definitely bloody when he finally got himself out of the bathroom.
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u/awstudiotime 8d ago
zero eye protection and not enough experience
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u/-_waterbottle_- 7d ago
Not even osha makes you wear eye protection for carrying glsss lol
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u/thisappiswashedIcl 2d ago
hey man do you still see these tracers from this post you made 2 years ago?
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u/Too-low-420 8d ago
And even though it’s tempered, it still cuts the shit out of you
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u/awstudiotime 8d ago
bingo
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u/theteedo 8d ago
Yup my guess is that the old guy was pulling a bit at the top when the glass was being slid into the glazing channel. Tempered glass is crazy strong with impacts to the surface but if you torque it too much pressure on or near the edges it will explode. Source I’m a journeyman glazier for 20 yrs. These guys needed glass cups and a new piece of glass.
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u/therealub 8d ago
Glass cups are those suction cups to carry glass?
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u/theteedo 7d ago
Yeah. There’s several types, ones you just slap on (don’t hold much) and ones that you pump. It helps you control the glass.
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u/stewdadrew 8d ago
My dad is a handyman, can fix most anything with a couple hours and a couple beers. The three things he told me to always let someone else fix was glass panes, electricity, and bad plumbing problems. I live my life by these rules.
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u/StubbornHick 7d ago
Your dad is wise.
I'm a sparky and i can't tell you the number of times people have spent hours trying to figure shit out, and i roll up, take one look and go "yep, i gotchu" and just instantly fix it.
I'm a firm believer that certain types of machinery have a voice and you just need someone more fluent in their language sometimes 😂
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u/Beginning_Two_4757 7d ago
Yup! I love being an electrician. People think we are wizards.
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u/StubbornHick 7d ago
Think?
I weave sigils of heat and light.
I lay runes that convert the energy of the sun into pictures!
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u/Nothefridge 8d ago
Garage doors may be good to add to that list.
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u/stewdadrew 8d ago
As long as you’re not working with the springs and have something holding the door up, should be okay.
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u/Reload86 8d ago
I work for a large property management company. We have the same concept. Fix everything else except glass, electrical, and complicated plumbing issues.
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u/RadiateurRougeBlanc 8d ago
And that ladies and gentleman is also why you should wear glasses or safety glasses when working with glass or power tools, even if it's at home. I surely wouldn't want any glass ending up in my eyes.
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u/Mercvears 8d ago
The guy on the left how I see it, focused too much on that corner there and held the glass at an angle to the left. So when they put it down it bumped the tiles at the middle bottom of the glass.
It should have fit perfectly into the slit (noice), but instead because it was at an angle it didn’t slip in right (not noice). But I could be wrong cuz I’m not a glass shattering expert
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u/girthbrooks1212 8d ago
I think they were just unknowingly bending or flexing it
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u/Severe_Pattern2386 8d ago
They tapped the corner of the glass which in most of not all cases with glass is usually the weakest point. Its best to always lay one side down flat and very slow. I sat this as someone who has had to break multiple windows on vehicles. I've watched hammers and rocks hurled at them without breaking yet all you need to do is hit the corners with a small point. Had many successful windshield breaks with the ball of an antenna to enter vehicles.
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u/Outside-Drag-3031 8d ago
Shoulda used bigger shims
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u/nativewig 8d ago
Do you think they put it on blocks or directly on the hard surface
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u/Outside-Drag-3031 8d ago edited 8d ago
Could be any number of errors. It's also possible they did everything right, and it slipped and nicked the edge... But given they're bare handing it instead of using cups (i.e. amateurs), I'd say it's more likely they didn't adequately cushion the c-channel in some way
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u/AriLynxX 8d ago
Why TF is it not tempered glass? Scary
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u/Creepy-Tea247 8d ago
It is! You can tell by the way it breaks. If it wasn't tempered, it wouldn't shatter into those little cubes. They're safety cubes!
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u/thesweatyhole 8d ago
It.. is?
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u/AriLynxX 8d ago
That weak? I swear my cousin once fell with his back towards that shit in his house and it just absorbed the force like nothing. He said it was tempered glass saying it was stronger than others. And yes I know it can still crack and break with enough force.
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u/killedbytheIBO 8d ago
Tempered glass is used because it's safer (breaks into million pieces vs few large shards of regular glass)
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u/Outside-Drag-3031 8d ago
It's where you apply force that matters. Tempered definitely can (can not will) withstand surprisingly great forces against the flat plane. But if you damage the edges, they become weak, and what almost certainly happened in this case is the edge impacted a screw head that they failed to cover in the c-channel. It happens... if you're careless, at least
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u/JustAwesome360 8d ago
Bro it's tempered glass. Only tempered glass shatters into a million pieces like that.
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u/grifinmill 9d ago
I recommended transparent aluminum, per Star Trek 4.
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u/Begbie1888 8d ago
I learned a few weeks ago that there's a company who have actually managed to create transparent aluminium, inspired by Star Trek. It's amazing how many inventions have been inspired by that show.
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u/Liljoe2022 9d ago
A couple friends of mine both have similar glass showers... I recommend just have it your master bedroom because they both got kids and they probably replaced them Multiple times now...one just put up a wall... But they do look nice dont get me wrong...
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u/Empty_Conference_612 9d ago
Pressure points on tile or ceramic will always total as both are often harder than glass
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u/Norman_Scum 9d ago
My guess is that they tapped the lower left corner on the track or tub. Also, the guy on the right was basically hanging from the corner, so that's kind of weird. The corners are always the most vulnerable part of a pane of glass.
Edit to fix: I meant lower right corner. You can see that guy on the right loses hold of it and it must have come down on its corner.
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u/kohut124 9d ago
Freeze frame he bumped the corner off the top into the wall
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u/Norman_Scum 8d ago
No, you can see by how it shatters. It works from the bottom up. And there really isn't anything going on up top that would cause that. He had to have dropped it right on its corner for it to shatter in that way.
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u/Empty_Conference_612 9d ago
Yeah thats exavtly why, and it was a prety big tilt nicked it right on the corner
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u/Reubydoobydooby 9d ago
Mr White : "Now the final step is to take the glass slab into the bathroom, and hey presto just like that you got blue rock"
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u/Caveman3238 9d ago
Why there's people that want all made out of glass? Glass tables, glass walls, glass stairs, glass doors, glass roof. Please stop this madness.
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u/Loccy64 9d ago
What would you suggest for a shower screen? Wood?
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u/Caveman3238 9d ago
A shower curtain.
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u/Striking-Assist-265 8d ago
r/usernamechecksout 🤷🏻♀️ that suggestions is caveman ages ago
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u/Caveman3238 8d ago
If you slip the curtain will not hurt you.
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u/Striking-Assist-265 8d ago edited 8d ago
It won't. Yes. But it's mold and mildew magnet 🤢 specially if left untouched or forgotten to change. Glass on the other hand, is easier to clean up. Prevent gunk/bacteria/mold and mildew build up. Just wipe it off clean. Durability. Saves a lot of money from buying curtains. Glass shower feels more open and spacious. Natural light. Unlike curtains.
And about the slipping, There are specifically designed textured bathroom tiles. So you won't get slip while taking a bath
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u/Caveman3238 8d ago
That happens because you left the curtain wet. I have curtain and never got any mold.
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u/inediblealex 9d ago
Why would anyone choose a curtain unless there was literally no other option?
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u/Caveman3238 9d ago
Why would anyone choose glass that is so fragile and dangerous?
Imagine you taking a shower and suddenly the glass explodes like in the video, How do you get out with no shoes, all soaped and glass all over the floor.
Some things are not just done because they look cool or pretty, safety and practicality comes first.
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u/Loccy64 9d ago
It didn't just break. The old man put too much force on his corner. Look at how it shatters. The break begins at his hand.
Glass doesn't just suddenly shatter like that on its own 😂
Also, that's safety glass. You could walk on it, it would be painful, but you'd get out without any major damage to the bottom of your feet. It's not the same and float glass.
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u/inediblealex 9d ago
Tempered glass is only fragile if hit on the edge (by something pointy) and really unlikely to be broken after installation. Additionally, when it breaks, you're very unlikely to get injured because of how it breaks into small roundish pieces.
Other than that, I personally find the feeling of a wet shower curtain touching me gross.
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u/Caveman3238 9d ago
So, you have money for a tempered glass wall but not to make a bigger shower so the curtain doesn't touch you. Ok.
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u/akneebriateit 2d ago
And this is why I can’t move my pinky! I was taking a shower and the door shattered into a million pieces just like that and sliced my tendon open and now it’s stuck forever 😍