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Comments (20)This is an older thread, but I happened across it while looking for something else and thought to add a few cents worth. The side windows of your car are tempered glass. Tempered glass is heat strengthened by taking the glass up to 1200F and then rapidly cooling it. This causes the exterior surface of the glass to compress while the interior of the glass is still quite warm and still in expansion mode. Ultimately, this translates into an exterior compression layer and an interior tension layer. When the compression layer is breached, then all that tension is released (kind of like a spring) and POW! there goes the window. Okay, then why did the side window break? It is certainly possible that it was impacted by a rock or bb or something similar, but I am guessing that it was spontaneous breakage based on the description. As mentioned, tempered glass is tough on the face, but the edges are quite fragile. One characteristic of tempered glass is that if it has edge damage it might not "release" immediately, preferring to wait around for awhile until it has a chnace to scare the @$#%@^@%#$@ out of someone sitting at a stoplight or else eating breakfast in their home. It makes for great conversation! When glass is manufactured, it might have what are called "inclusions". Usually nickle sulfide or perhaps other trace elements, these inclusions can cause significant problems in tempered glass. While most glass with inclusions will break during the tempering process, some of them are just stubborn enoungh to make it past that process and into the actual finished product. These inclusions, like their edge damaged cousins, love to wait around awhile until everyone is quietly relaxing and then POW! no more glass in the window frame. Typical breaking stress for annealed (regular) glass is around 6000psi. Typical windload breaking stress for tempered glass is around 24,000psi, thus the "four times stronger" comparison that many folks like to quote. When impacted, tmepered glass is about double the strength of annealed glass. One typical lab test is to impact 1/4" lites with a 5gm missile. The tempered glass can withstand the impact up to about 60ft/sec while the annealed can withstand the missile to about 30ft/sec. Ultimately, very few folks insure against glass breakage. Although spontaneous breakage does happen, I would suggest that proving it will be difficult and the last thing that any glass company wants to do is to deal with about 10,000,000 claims for spontaneous breakage - definitely a losing situation. And realistically, way more glass is broken for reasons other than spontaneous breakage... Hopefully this made some sense!...See MoreMy Glass Cooktop exploded
Comments (36)I have just moved into a new house that has a glass Euromaid freestanding. It is new, and I have used it about three times. I took the tray out of the oven to use it and popped it on the cooktop at the back. I went to turn on the water at the front to boil it and I have accidentally turned on the back element. The glass melted where it was touching the trayand when I have taken it off a huge chunk of glass ceramic has been taken out of the cooktop. $900 to replace the glass! I’m sitting with a decision but I’m leaning towards replacing the stove which is absolutely ridiculous giving that it’s a brand-new stove! Of course Euromaid want nothing to do with it!...See MoreAck! FSBO Legal Stuff... my head will explode!
Comments (15)IMO, a realtor is there to find buyers, not the legal paperwork. The realor isn't worth a lot of money for the legal stuff because the realtor, at least in my experience, doesn't actually do a lot of the legal paperwork. In my cases, the realtor(s) just filled in the standard TREC (Texas) home buying contract based on verbal feedback from all parties and once all signatures were on there, this was handed to a title company that took care of the rest (coordination with bank, deed, recordings, closing). If I was planning on FSBO (only in a strong sellers market), I would: * Search the net for a standard home buying contract. Only if that comes from a reputable source (like TREC in TX; which was used by all the realtors that I ever dealt with) and if it is written in clear language would I use it w/o an attorney. Otherwise I'd look up a real estate attorney in your state to get a good contract. * search for a title company and ask them what the info is they need to proceed after a contract has been signed. * market the house (this is where a good realtor is valuable) * after negotiating the sale and the contract is signed, contact the title company again and let them handle the rest....See MoreMy head is going to explode. Anyone else want to join?
Comments (14)I take it this means the black with stainless idea is out? ;) Just to push you a little further over the edge - there is some amazing aluminum (I thought it was stainless) at Daltile - Mythos Brushed Aluminum tile. There are bars, and bricks, and 1x1 tiles, and some is brushed straight and some has curves (which could bring in your cabs)... it's awesome. Saw it at the little Daltile in Irvine (or is that Tustin? near the 55 just a few blocks N of MacArthur). I'm keeping it in mind for my kitchen BS when I get there as an accent with the glass subway. The thing that scares me about some of the stainless is that it will show scratches. Since this is brushed that's already done for you! :) I'm thinking that running a few bars of that around to break up the glass might just look pretty cool. =) Oh, say, did you hear any news from your saleslady today now that she is back? Or are you def off the fusion anyway? And, just another thought... there was some AMAZING black quartz that was actually kind of facing "your" fusion at Bedrosians. I asked Robert what it was and he said quartz but I don't remember what the name was other than that. It looked like it had diamonds sparkling in it. Gorgeous. Hang in there... it's only a kitchen... that you will have to live with for the next 20 years. :-) Not helping, am I?...See MoreRelated Professionals
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