Double glazed window cracked

Sunny Dayz

We came home to our house yesterday afternoon after being over at my parents for dinner to find that the inner pane of glass in my son's room is cracked from almost half way across the bottom extending upwards about two thirds of the way up.

We aren't sure if it happened while we were away or if it happened from yesterday afternoon as the blinds had been down last noght and this morning.

We have asked our son about it and he said he didn't break it and that he didn't notice it til he came home from his grans and alerted us.

There have been no unusually high or low temperatures lately. There are no visible cracks to the window frame, sill, or wall around the window.

There doesn't look to be anything out of place in my son's room, whether anything thrown or fallen and the window sill unfortunately is a bit dustly but it shows us that nothing on the window sill was disturbed.

Can a pane of glass "just crack" for no reason?

hfallada

3 of the 4 panes of our french doors has cracked glass for one particular reason( the doors were from one of the most expensive sellers of doors and windows in Ireland (they are now bankrupt)). If the glass is laminated( you can tell if the cracks on the inside of the glass is different to the outside of the glass), i wouldnt been in a hurry to replace it, as the glass wont completely shatter

ni loinsigh

hi ,just wondered how you sorted out your cracked window. i got new windows 9 months ago. last week for no reason an inside pane of glass cracked. the company now want me to pay €200 to replace glass. this is a fault with their windows and should be covered under their warranty. Help

Sunny Dayz

Hi, we got a window repair guy out to replace the whole pane of glass. He said it's just one of those things that happen. Windows have been in 7 or 8 years i would imagine since the house was built.

Although a few days before the guy came to fix it, the crack travelled a bit so he come over to us a bit quicker then.

ni loinsigh

did ye have to pay for the replacement glass??? my window was installed only 9 months ago.

Sunny Dayz

Yes we had to pay for it. It didn't cost as much as I was expecting and the guy had it done in no time.