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Has anyone had their glass table exploding?

  • 12-11-2013 09:01PM
    #1
    j@utis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭


    Happened twice this year. First small side table, and the coffee table this evening. luckily nobody got injured :(

    Coffee table in pieces

    ....:mad:

    Side table

    Made in China stuff :mad:


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Comments

  • #2
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    Stop dropping your ipad on it.


  • #3
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Snatch !





    Or was it Lock Stock.........:o


  • #4
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Have you had any banshees over?


  • #5
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    not tables but have seen glass shower panels that have exploded something to do with temperature change or something or other. Glass is fickle


  • #6
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    I think I recall reading something about extremes in temperature weakening glass. The sidetable was next to a rad, could it have been touching it?

    The coffee table.....as above, don't throw your ipad at it:D


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  • #7
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    Happened to my glass hammer.


  • #8
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    Where's the creepy post about the red dress gone to?


  • #9
    theblaqueguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 401 ✭✭theblaqueguy


    Perhaps you could purchase wooden tables?
    Save you the hassle of cleaning up all that glass if another glass one breaks


  • #10
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    weird,lots of things smashing lately,

    last saturday my grandmother's evil sister in law died.


    that evening her mirror flew off the wall it had been hanging on for years and smashed into as many pieces as that table!


  • #11
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Hmm, are you made of diamonds and do you sing at a very very high frequency?


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  • #12
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    loveBBhate wrote: »
    Where's the creepy post about the red dress gone to?

    It did add a certain something to the thread.


  • #13
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    All glass explodes eventually. It's just a ticking bomb. Why do you think all the old castles and old Celtic ruins and the like don't have glazed windows?


  • #14
    Maximus Alexander
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,080 ✭✭✭✭Maximus Alexander


    j@utis wrote: »
    Happened twice this year. First small side table, and the coffee table this evening. luckily nobody got injured :(

    Ghosts tbh.

    Get out while you still can.


  • #15
    j@utis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,055 ✭✭✭j@utis


    it has to be something to do with temperature changes. but in this case, I think, it's more to do with the product quality.
    my partner was sitting on the coach at the moment it happened. bare feet on the table of course but there was a cushion in between - lucky.
    side table exploded in June when heating was off.


  • #16
    shuffles88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 239 ✭✭shuffles88


    j@utis wrote: »
    Happened twice this year. First small side table, and the coffee table this evening. luckily nobody got injured :(

    Coffee table in pieces

    ....:mad:

    Side table

    Made in China stuff :mad:

    A shower screen exploded on me when I was giving my niece a bath. She was only a teeny baby at the time and thankfully she wasn't hurt. It scared the ****e out of me though having glass explode in my face its been shower curtains for me ever since:D


  • #17
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭deise08


    Yep. Think it was more down to the fact we were cooking sausages in a disposable bbq on it :)


  • #18
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    Made in China?

    Bloody foreign ghosts coming in and hauntin' our jobs and our wimmin...


  • #19
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    j@utis wrote: »
    it has to be something to do with temperature changes. but in this case, I think, it's more to do with the product quality.
    my partner was sitting on the coach at the moment it happened. bare feet on the table of course but there was a cushion in between - lucky.
    side table exploded in June when heating was off.

    Shoddy workmanship thats what it is! SHODDY! SHODDY! SHODDY!


  • #20
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    deise08 wrote: »
    Yep. Think it was more down to the fact we were cooking sausages in a disposable bbq on it :)

    Do you like the sausage?


  • #21
    deise08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,333 ✭✭✭deise08


    Can't beat the countrystyle :)


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  • #22
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    deise08 wrote: »
    Can't beat the countrystyle :)

    xoxox


  • #23
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,099 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    Those shards are pretty big, it looks like the table wasn't made out of good toughened glass, otherwise the pieces would be much smaller chunks. Bigger pieces are much more likely to injure.


  • #24
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    A bunch of cowboys Ted.


  • #25
    loveBBhate
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 645 ✭✭✭loveBBhate


    kowloon wrote: »
    Those shards are pretty big, it looks like the table wasn't made out of good toughened glass, otherwise the pieces would be much smaller chunks. Bigger pieces are much more likely to injure.

    A well-informed and educated post regarding the complexity and inner detail of glass.

    Fair play Kolwoon, a friendly reminder of how useful Boards can be in situations like this, a true gentleman of the internet.


  • #26
    looking_around
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,491 ✭✭✭looking_around


    thats mad!

    Parents once had a glass table top, that(trying to get rid of) spent ages trying to break. seriously.. placed it at an angle and threw heave ass rocks on it... not even a chip on the damn thing. Decided to slide it behind the oil tank..where it still sits!


  • #27
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    A bunch of cowboys Ted.

    Chinese cowboys

    (I'm trying to figure out which is gayer, the picture or the name of the picture)


  • #28
    Freddy Smelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    j@utis wrote: »
    Happened twice this year. First small side table, and the coffee table this evening. luckily nobody got injured :(

    Coffee table in pieces

    ....:mad:

    Side table

    Made in China stuff :mad:

    dont buy glass tables then


  • #29
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    Solar Flares


  • #30
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭marketty


    Super-Rush wrote: »
    A bunch of cowboys Ted.

    Sure you could talk that into coming down!


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  • #31
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 56,308 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I hate glass tables - they seem to be everywhere these days. Impossible to keep clean. :mad:


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