Glass and Mirrors - Broken window
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07-11-00, 09:20 PM
I was wondering if was possible for something that hits a window from the outside to break only the inside pane of glass. One night I came home from work to find that the inside pane of glass on a window was shattered. The glass was still in the frame, but it had spider-wed like cracks all through it. My landlord is claiming that, since the inside pane is broken it must have been broken from the inside and that I have to pay to fix it. I'm not going to pay no matter what, but I'd like some confirmation that it could have been broken from the outside. Thanks.
lefty
07-11-00, 11:27 PM
Was anybody in the house when the breakage occurred? I supposed it's POSSIBLE that it happened from the outside, but it would be more likely to have been done from the inside.
07-14-00, 08:01 PM
Sorry tommy!
when you have a double insulated window it means that there is a seperation of space between the two layers of glass! It would be impossible to impress the outside layer of glass to the point that it would break the inside glass without breaking the outer layer! If the broken glass looks like little cubes of glass then it is tempered and there are times when an imperfection during manurfacturing can cause the glass to break during times of high humidity or extreme cold! In either types of glass, if the unit was assembled to tight it can break. Or if the glass cleaved, it could drop or slide down enough to put pressure on it from the frame. I hope this helps! The only way to know for sure is to take the window apart.
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drm@ttlc.net
when you have a double insulated window it means that there is a seperation of space between the two layers of glass! It would be impossible to impress the outside layer of glass to the point that it would break the inside glass without breaking the outer layer! If the broken glass looks like little cubes of glass then it is tempered and there are times when an imperfection during manurfacturing can cause the glass to break during times of high humidity or extreme cold! In either types of glass, if the unit was assembled to tight it can break. Or if the glass cleaved, it could drop or slide down enough to put pressure on it from the frame. I hope this helps! The only way to know for sure is to take the window apart.
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drm@ttlc.net
07-25-00, 12:13 AM
In my 24 years in the glass business i have seen a great many windows broken as you have described, and have even witnessed it on a few occasions.In most cases the reason could be traced to a flaw in the frame manufacture or installation.Glass is much more vulnerable to breakage at the edges, so your best bet is to trace the cracks or the pattern of the cracks back to the edge and look for a misalignment of the frame, or a suspicious nail or screw head... but some mysteries are just to elusive to be solved(reply comes from Scappose, Oregon-alleged home of bigfoot)