Suddenly shattered glass door

Hello dear ones, last night there was a big bang at our place and suddenly our glass door was shattered into a thousand pieces on the floor. The door was installed four years ago and there was no visible damage. Has something like this ever happened to you?

Attached is a picture.

Hi,

yes, we had that once years ago too. Sounds like a spontaneous fracture caused by nickel-sulfate inclusion. It occurs in about 2% of all doors, is a material defect and therefore actually a case for the warranty. But it is difficult to prove.

We were lucky back then that although the door shattered completely, the fragments stayed in place long enough for me to take a photo. And in the photo, you could see that the cracks originated from somewhere in the middle of the door, so it was not caused by a bump or the like.

I think this will be a case for your glass breakage insurance.

Best regards,

Andreas

Fortunately, we have additional glass insurance, to which we have already reported the damage.

We were quite shocked yesterday, I can tell you.

Yep, for us it was in the middle of the night, the noise was really impressive!