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re: 2 story window over our stairs just popped and shattered.

Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:18 pm to
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
10124 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:18 pm to
Heard a loud crash yesterday. The outside ceiling fan fell out of ceiling.
Posted by LSUGrrrl
Frisco, TX
Member since Jul 2007
44890 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:35 pm to
quote:

So what did they say happened with it?


They couldn’t tell. So much glass has fallen out that there’s no way to know now. He confirmed no dead bird in garden. That’s about it.
Posted by LSUGrrrl
Frisco, TX
Member since Jul 2007
44890 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:40 pm to
Bet that made you jump.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
19427 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:47 pm to
quote:

Squirrel.

Or




Ernest T. Bass was one hell of a terror when it came to window busting with rocks. He got the most out of his only 5 appearances on the old "Andy Griffith Show" as Bass.
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
88797 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:55 pm to
made a pretty good living doing voice overs
Posted by 777Tiger
Member since Mar 2011
88797 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 4:56 pm to
you still here?
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
22903 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 5:19 pm to
Your son and his friends had nothing to do with it.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
194818 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 5:23 pm to
damn Walt
Posted by sqerty
AP
Member since May 2022
8147 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 5:37 pm to
Def see Jesus in those cracks!
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
29292 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 6:32 pm to
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There wasn’t a single point of break that then spread.


There was a single point of break that then spread, it just happened very very quickly. It's instantaneous to the naked eye. Once the tension is broken, the whole piece goes. Your break happened right in the middle. You can see the pattern radiating out from it.

Your $4600 price for replacement (assuming 50% deposit for both lites of glass you are talking about) is not unreasonable. No one likes doing replacements like that, especially the radius window, so they're priced accordingly.
Posted by Eli Goldfinger
Member since Sep 2016
32785 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 7:10 pm to
quote:

too scared to get right up to the window


C’mon Grrrl
Posted by jafari rastaman
Member since Nov 2015
2505 posts
Posted on 8/19/23 at 7:16 pm to
Does your wife’s ex-boyfriend know where you live?
Posted by StreamsOfWhiskey
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Jun 2013
831 posts
Posted on 8/20/23 at 8:45 am to
We had this happen to a large frosted bathroom window we have. Around 3 AM we heard a loud pop and the glass spider-webbed entirely. No glass fell, but the replacement glass company told us that often the glass can have blemishes that over time compromise the double pained windows.

The pop was so loud that I was convinced someone shot it. Nope.
This post was edited on 8/20/23 at 8:47 am
Posted by glassart
Member since Apr 2021
659 posts
Posted on 8/20/23 at 8:56 am to
There is exactly one company in Louisiana qualified to fabricate a window that size that won’t break again:
Dependable Glassworks in Covington. The only way that will work is to go with a commercial window. Residential glass is 11/32 of an inch thick. You need minimum two sheets of 1/4”. Like another poster said, buildings settle and foundations shift. That’s why really old buildings with intact large windows (Louisiana old state Capitol) are all Diamond shaped panes.
Posted by WhereisAtlanta
Member since Jun 2016
847 posts
Posted on 8/20/23 at 9:23 am to
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The wood framing around the glass moving due to it being hot and dry?



More likely the whole house flexing because the soil is drying out more than normal, in certain soil conditions this is common every year.
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