Spontaneous glass breakage?

[jellyfish10]

I got home from work today and checked on my plants propagation. I keep them in my music room, kitchen, and living room. When I got to the living room to check, the outer pane on the middle window is shattered. I went outside to see if I could detect if anything was thrown at it but it doesn’t appear that way. It is a north facing window.

A quick search said spontaneous glass breakage is in fact a thing, but usually do to drastic temperature change, a flaw in installation, or heavy traffic. The second I suppose could be true, the first and last not so much. @Hoosierhawkeye or anyone else have any advice or thoughts?

 

[tarheelbybirth]

Bird strike?

 

[jellyfish10]

Bird strike?

Fair question. Unless the window was already compromised, it would have to be a bird the size of an eagle to do this kind of damage.

 

[tarheelbybirth]

 

[lucas80]

It was already compromised. Ages ago when I was in college I was near the front windows of the restaurant I worked at when one of them shattered. Large, older pane of glass, and it just went. I'd looked at that window a billion times and never seen a flaw, but it just shattered.
Then, I got to clean most of it up and figure out how to stretch plastic over the 15 foot tall opening in the front of the restaurant.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

Bummer OP, that sucks! How’s the propagation going? Our brassicas and celery are about 5 inches tall already. Peppers are sprouting too.

 

[The Tradition]

This happens to windshields. Suddenly a crack appears overnight that wasn't there the day before.

 

[TennNole17]

 

[The Tradition]

People don't realize how big these freaking birds are. They stand about three feet tall with a wingspan as large as eight feet.

 

[jellyfish10]

I fvcking knew it!

 

[jellyfish10]

Bummer OP, that sucks! How’s the propagation going? Our brassicas and celery are about 5 inches tall already. Peppers are sprouting too.

Good man thanks for asking. Most of my prop is house plants but I’m doing cucs inside and they have sprouted. I am planning on doing more next year. I like to do business with a local-ish company as far as my garden supplies go.

 

[Kelsers]

I got home from work today and checked on my plants propagation. I keep them in my music room, kitchen, and living room. When I got to the living room to check, the outer pane on the middle window is shattered. I went outside to see if I could detect if anything was thrown at it but it doesn’t appear that way. It is a north facing window.

A quick search said spontaneous glass breakage is in fact a thing, but usually do to drastic temperature change, a flaw in installation, or heavy traffic. The second I suppose could be true, the first and last not so much. @Hoosierhawkeye or anyone else have any advice or thoughts?

Has your house shifted from freeze/thaw?

 

[Joes Place]

I got home from work today and checked on my plants propagation. I keep them in my music room, kitchen, and living room. When I got to the living room to check, the outer pane on the middle window is shattered. I went outside to see if I could detect if anything was thrown at it but it doesn’t appear that way. It is a north facing window.

A quick search said spontaneous glass breakage is in fact a thing, but usually do to drastic temperature change, a flaw in installation, or heavy traffic. The second I suppose could be true, the first and last not so much. @Hoosierhawkeye or anyone else have any advice or thoughts?

The neighbor kid came and picked up his baseball, yo....

 

[Joes Place]

Most of my prop is house plants but I’m doing cucs inside

You're growing a whole garden of Trump, Jr.'s...????

 

[millah_22]

bullet?

 

[jellyfish10]

Has your house shifted from freeze/thaw?

Nothing different since I moved here.

 

[millah_22]

Neighbor getting back at you for not sexing her?

 

[Kelsers]

Nothing different since I moved here.

Usually there's a reason, unlike Trad thinking it can just happen.

 

[jellyfish10]

The neighbor kid came and picked up his baseball, yo....

Almost no kids in my neighborhood. Apparently a methhead is squatting a few houses away from me. That was my first thought.

To add a little bit to this, a few weeks ago in the middle of the night, I could hear a male and female voice outside of my bedroom window. Along the neighbor’s fence I have tried to reintroduce pollinators and have lined that area with rock cairns. The squirrels love to play on them and they only tip over the smaller ones. When I woke up that morning, a bunch of the bigger stacks were tipped over that squirrels could not do. I get some raccoons as well but that is not their jam.

Same dude is also building a treehouse in the backyard out of shit he’s probably stolen and there were cops out looking for someone just a short time ago. Help me I’m poor.

 

[The Tradition]

Usually there's a reason, unlike Trad thinking it can just happen.

Shit does in fact happen.

 

[jellyfish10]

Neighbor getting back at you for not sexing her?

Damnit dude. You have a mind like a steel trap! I’m also rethinking my stance on her btw.

 

[jellyfish10]

Shit does in fact happen.

Indeed.

 

[Kelsers]

Shit does in fact happen.

Yes, it does. Please share times that shit happened.

 

[Hawkfan_08]

I'm thinking it's a poltergeist.

Call these guys.

 

[The Tradition]

Yes, it does. Please share times that shit happened.

Cue the legendary "Golden Corral" thread....

 

[Kelsers]

Shit does in fact happen.

Although I guess I can't argue that point. 🤣

 

[Fan In Black]

 

[Joes Place]

Almost no kids in my neighborhood.

....Hmmm...... when was the last SpaceX launch/explosion????

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

No idea. I have never heard of spontaneous glass breakage before.

You mentioned plants, does this glass have a low e coating?

I think insulated units without a low e coating can be more prone to thermal stress if in direct sunlight.

 

[jellyfish10]

No idea. I have never heard of spontaneous glass breakage before.

You mentioned plants, does this glass have a low e coating?

I think insulated units without a low e coating can be more prone to thermal stress if in direct sunlight.

Not in direct sunlight and I don’t use a heat source/special lights for the plants. I can’t answer the low e question. Maybe it was stressed and a bird hit it but it is a huge hole.

No idea. I have never heard of spontaneous glass breakage before.

You mentioned plants, does this glass have a low e coating?

I think insulated units without a low e coating can be more prone to thermal stress if in direct sunlight.

 

[gohawks50]

I got home from work today and checked on my plants propagation. I keep them in my music room, kitchen, and living room. When I got to the living room to check, the outer pane on the middle window is shattered. I went outside to see if I could detect if anything was thrown at it but it doesn’t appear that way. It is a north facing window.

A quick search said spontaneous glass breakage is in fact a thing, but usually do to drastic temperature change, a flaw in installation, or heavy traffic. The second I suppose could be true, the first and last not so much. @Hoosierhawkeye or anyone else have any advice or thoughts?

After my mom died when my dad was living alone one night when he was sleeping the outside glass on the oven door shattered for no reason we could figure out. He heard a crash in the kitchen and when he went to look he found glass all over the floor.

 

[Hoosierhawkeye]

Not in direct sunlight and I don’t use a heat source/special lights for the plants. I can’t answer the low e question. Maybe it was stressed and a bird hit it but it is a huge hole.

Ok most units would have a low e coating on them but I think an exception to that might be like greenhouses and the such.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Anyone trying out for the Opera in the home?

 

[onlyTheObvious]

 

[GOHOX69]

I got home from work today and checked on my plants propagation. I keep them in my music room, kitchen, and living room. When I got to the living room to check, the outer pane on the middle window is shattered. I went outside to see if I could detect if anything was thrown at it but it doesn’t appear that way. It is a north facing window.

A quick search said spontaneous glass breakage is in fact a thing, but usually do to drastic temperature change, a flaw in installation, or heavy traffic. The second I suppose could be true, the first and last not so much. @Hoosierhawkeye or anyone else have any advice or thoughts?

Your glass was already stressed and had microscopic cracks, which you could not see. This has happened to me repeatedly with gel electrophoresis plates in my lab. Thankfully, these days, we've gone to single use high pollutin' plastics

 

[QChawks]

no rock or baseball on the ground?

 

[jellyfish10]

no rock or baseball on the ground?

Nope.

 

[jellyfish10]

Anyone trying out for the Opera in the home?

I play the didge quite often but that is in my music room.

 

[jellyfish10]

I am sure everyone was dying to hear an update, but there is a matchbox car and a pez dispenser outside where the window was broken and glass on the sidewalk 30 feet away. Maybe it wasn’t just random.

 

[McLovin32]