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Posted by on February 3, 2007, 10:20 pm
>I have a sliding glass door leading to a small balcony in my new
> house. The slider is double-paned glass, as is the fixed door it
> slides over. There is also another fixed double-pane to the left of
> the door.
>
> I haven't moved in yet, due to multiple problems after purchase, so I
> am just going over to work, let contractors in, and check up on the
> place. This afternoon, I went over to the house, and the glass in the
> fixed door (the one the slider passes over) had a spiderweb cracks in
> it, throughout the entire pane of glass. I could hear the cracks
> continuing, and I actually saw a few small ones form while I stood
> there. The glass is still in place, but it is shattered throughout
> the whole pane.
>
> It appears that it radiates from a spot next to the frame, about 3/4
> of a foot from the bottom. The door was fine last night, as far as I
> saw, and no one was in the house but a flooring guy, finishing some
> shoe molding and putting base in other rooms, so there doesn't seem to
> be any way it was hit. The pane that is cracking is the interior
> frame, so it apparently can't be from something outside hitting the
> window.
>
> The temperature has been pretty cold here lately (between 0 and 10
> degfrees), but again, the other panes are fine, and it is an interior
> pane. My only thought was an air leak between the panes, with a
> temperature differential, but I don't know if that is the case.
>
That is weird- I had the same thing happen on an exterior pane, but it was
summer, so I'm reasonably sure it was a thrown rock from the mower. Good
thing it was at an apartment, so management had to pay, not me. If it is a
stock size, replacement won't be too painful. Hopefully no strange tints
they can't match or anything.
Was the flooring guy there the day you found the breakage, or the day
before? Does the balcony have steps to the ground? You sure the flooring guy
didn't use that door, like for a shortcut to carry materials and tools? I'm
picturing a portable chop saw carried by one end of the base, and the other
end raps into the glass. If no steps, maybe he was cutting out on the
balcony, to ease cleanup? (Sawdust is a pain to get out of fresh carpet.)
aem sends...
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