A Slider That Went Without Warning in St Leonards
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A sliding door panel at a St Leonards home shattered unexpectedly. The toughened glass broke completely, leaving the property exposed and unsafe.
Unexpected is the usual pattern
Customers often want to know what they did. Most of the time the answer is nothing.
Toughened glass carries permanent internal tension, and once a flaw or an edge stress reaches its limit the panel releases entirely rather than cracking. There is no gradual failure to notice, which is exactly why it feels like it came out of nowhere.
Same day, full replacement
We arrived the same day and completed a full emergency replacement rather than a temporary make safe.
The damaged panel was removed and replaced with new laminated safety glass to AS1288. Laminated stays in place even when cracked, which improves both safety and security, and removes the spontaneous failure risk from the opening entirely.
Before
After
The job in short
- Site: Residential, St Leonards
- Failure: Toughened sliding door panel shattered unexpectedly
- Response: Same day, full replacement
- Replacement: Laminated safety glass to AS1288
