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re: 2 story window over our stairs just popped and shattered.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:37 pm to Chief Hinge
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:37 pm to Chief Hinge
If you cover up the broken window up with Aluminum foil you will be just fine.
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Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:37 pm to Chief Hinge
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Awful masonry work.
Almost as bad as the glass
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:41 pm to LSUGrrrl
Does your dad have a machine that shrinks things?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:43 pm to Shamoan
I don’t even know what that is.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:44 pm to Shamoan
quote:Yea, his wife’s vagina.
Does your dad have a machine that shrinks things?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:45 pm to LSUGrrrl
Damn! That sucks
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:49 pm to LSUGrrrl
Anyone in the house an opera singer?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 5:53 pm to LSUGrrrl
Ah I see now. I shattered one of our side door windows that leads into the mud room a few weeks ago weed eating. Inside glass is fine
They wanted $700 to replace just the glass
It’s just gonna stay like it is for now.
They wanted $700 to replace just the glass
It’s just gonna stay like it is for now.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:04 pm to LSUGrrrl
I have no clue about the below, but it did make me think the pics you posted are after it started falling to ground & might be making some focus on that spot being the central point (including me). That central point might not have been there originally when you first saw window with spider web cracking immediately after the loud sound, but pics do kind of look like impact.
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Thermal stress crack — cracks at a perpendicular angle. Maybe caused by sudden temperature swings or shading changes on a building.
* Thermal stress cracks in windows are easy to identify because they start perpendicular to the glass edge. The crack will extend about a half-inch straight away from the glass edge. But that’s only true of the first half-inch of the crack, after that it may spider in any direction. Windows with cladding or trim may obscure your view of the glass edge.
Impact crack — cracks in a starburst pattern that radiates from a central point. Hitting a window with a baseball or golf ball could result in an impact crack.
Pressure crack — cracks in a pattern similar to the curve of an hourglass. Insulating glass — windows with two panes of glass that have air inside them — may get pressure cracks if they are installed at too high or too low of an elevation level or if there are drastic pressure system changes in the weather.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 6:12 pm
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:44 pm to LSUGrrrl
The break pattern indicates an impact or defect in the glass. If the glass had a nickle sulfide inclusion, the heat could have caused the tempered glass to blow.
Source: I temper glass and make insulating glass.
Source: I temper glass and make insulating glass.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:46 pm to LSUGrrrl
That looks like something hit the window.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:52 pm to BottomlandBrew
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If the glass had a nickle sulfide inclusion
THIS^
I was about to say “Google Nickel Sulfite inclusion.”
Especially in large windows, microscopic inclusions can expand and pop the glass. In commercial glass, some warranties cover this but I’m no expert. Find a good glass co & ask.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 8/18/23 at 6:57 pm to Klondikekajun
How can I tell if a glass breakage is due to Nickel Sulphide Inclusion?
The 'Butterfly Effect' pattern on glass is a sign of breakage where the implosion will centre around a singular point on the glass and will fan out in a butterfly wing formation. However, you can't for certain unless the glass is analysed.
The 'Butterfly Effect' pattern on glass is a sign of breakage where the implosion will centre around a singular point on the glass and will fan out in a butterfly wing formation. However, you can't for certain unless the glass is analysed.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:01 pm to LSUGrrrl
Take all that broke glass out and GTG.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:04 pm to glassart
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It’s the size of the window combined with the very thin glass used in residential windows. A glass person with ethics would have talked someone out of doing that. But for some reason we have an economy that hates expertise and rewards Half a$$erie.
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glassart
Checks out
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:05 pm to LSUtoBOOT
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How can I tell if a glass breakage is due to Nickel Sulphide Inclusion?
Hey BottomlandBrew….. thoughts?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:06 pm to LSUGrrrl
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Don’t those windows have some sort of gas in between the layers of glass?
Yes. Even the cheap double pane windows will have at least nitrogen in them. There may be some super cheap windows just flushed with dry air. If they just left the ambient air in them they would fog like crazy.
Higher quality windows will have a heavy inert gas filling them (noble gases on the far right of the periodic table). The heavier they are the less thermal conductivity they will have so Argon, Krypton, and Xenon each successive one is "better". Radon would be the best at insulation between the panes but it would bring a host of unsettling health issues with it. As an aside, but I guess this whole post is an aside those gasses leak out of windows over time as it is basically impossible to seal them 100% so the quality of the insulation in gas-filled windows goes down over time. They used to say you could start seeing reductions in about 10 years, now the manufacturers tout at least 20 years before seeing any reduction in the thermal transmission.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:25 pm to BigBinBR
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Yes. Normally Argon because it’s a good insulator. If they are a little older they could be krypton as well
A desiccant is usually used between the panes or glass.
As to the windows, are they fixed units or ones that can be opened?
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:27 pm to LSUGrrrl
I’ll alert the media
Posted on 8/18/23 at 7:28 pm to LSUGrrrl
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2 story window over our stairs just popped and shattered.
Did you have a Russian oligarch over for tea?
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