I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.

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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.


Windows are different than doors and so is the glass. A window did not
break, but a light of glass did. There are many reasons a sliding door will
blow out.

In the US, at least, door glass must be tempered. Tempered glass does not
break in shards like regular glass, but it fractures into tiny pieces when
broken. This makes it safer if a person or animal should fall against the
glass.

Go here are read No. 6 http://www.alumaxbath.com/tech/tgb.htm

It may have been damaged weeks ago and finally, excessive or extreme
temperature of a good bang closing will cause the problem. It was not
necessarily the kids having a party.
--
Ed
http://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

On Aug 18, 7:00 am, "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.

Windows are different than doors and so is the glass. A window did not
break, but a light of glass did. There are many reasons a sliding door will
blow out.

In the US, at least, door glass must be tempered. Tempered glass does not
break in shards like regular glass, but it fractures into tiny pieces when
broken. This makes it safer if a person or animal should fall against the
glass.

Go here are read No. 6 http://www.alumaxbath.com/tech/tgb.htm

It may have been damaged weeks ago and finally, excessive or extreme
temperature of a good bang closing will cause the problem. It was not
necessarily the kids having a party.
--
Edhttp://pages.cthome.net/edhome/

I agree with the 'tempered glass scenerio'.
There are stresses in tempered glass that can cause shattering.
My tempered glass shower door shattered without external cause.
The result was a pile of tiny cubes with slightly curved surfaces.
T

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"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:

wrote in message
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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.


Windows are different than doors and so is the glass. A window did not
break, but a light of glass did. There are many reasons a sliding door will
blow out.

In the US, at least, door glass must be tempered. Tempered glass does not
break in shards like regular glass, but it fractures into tiny pieces when
broken. This makes it safer if a person or animal should fall against the
glass.

Go here are read No. 6 http://www.alumaxbath.com/tech/tgb.htm

It may have been damaged weeks ago and finally, excessive or extreme
temperature of a good bang closing will cause the problem. It was not
necessarily the kids having a party.

I once found my favorite coffee cup shattered in pieces on my desk at
work. Very odd. Who would borrow my cup, break it, and then pick up all
the pieces and leave them on my desk? Inquiring around, I pieced
together the story.

Seems the previous evening, I had left the cup sitting on the back of my
car as I drove out of the parking lot. A coworker ran shouting after me,
but I didn't hear him. Miraculously, when the cup fell in the street, it
appeared totally intact and undamaged, so he put it on my desk. Perhaps
it was time, or a very minor change in temperature through the night,
that finished it off.

Before you shout irrelevant, I'm aware that glass and ceramic are two
different materials. I'm just trying to amuse myself over here until the
sun comes up.

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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.

Is there any film applied to the glass? Any kind of shades on the inside of
the door?

On Aug 18, 5:04 am, wrote:
I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.

A tiny nick or scratch on tempered glass can
cause it to shatter when there is an extreme
temperature change. By extreme I mean when
the afternoon sun heats it up. A diamond ring
could easily scratch the glass near the door
handle. When I did a lot of commercial glass
work, I always recommended laminated safety
glass for the doors and windows around doors
in grocery stores because it made it harder for
wealthy white people to break into the place.

[8~{} Uncle Monster

wrote:
I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.

I assume it was tempered, as it should be. Tempered glass can and often
does have some internal stresses, Any number of possible things can set it
off and high temperatures tend to increase the stress.


--
Joseph Meehan

Dia 's Muire duit

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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it was
the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.


I wouldn't expect it to happen. 37C is only 98F which isn't all that hot in
the grand scheme of things.

Eigenvector wrote:
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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it
was the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.


I wouldn't expect it to happen. 37C is only 98F which isn't all that
hot in the grand scheme of things.

It is if it's 65 degrees on the other side of the glass...

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Eigenvector wrote:
wrote in message
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I want to know if a window can explode out due to normal Perth,
Western Australian weather, even if it was 35 to 37 degrees celsius?
The room is 5m by 3m. It has two windows and a sliding door and it
was the sliding door that supposedly blew out. I f any body knows the
answer, please reply.


I wouldn't expect it to happen. 37C is only 98F which isn't all that
hot in the grand scheme of things.

It is if it's 65 degrees on the other side of the glass...

I wouldn't even expect that to be a problem

I think the people suggesting that its latent stress in the tempered glass
are probably right. I was simply stating that 98F wouldn't be hot enough to
shatter the glass by itself. I wouldn't have thought I'd have to further
explain what I said, but I guess I was wrong.