Why does shower room glass spontaneously shatter? After hearing the experts explain, I realized the bathroom may have these hidden hazards

Many people set up a separate shower enclosure with glass in the corner of their home to keep the wet and dry areas separated, but did you know that the glass of a shower enclosure can also explode? This is no joke! So why does shower enclosure glass suddenly explode? If this kind of thing keeps happening, won't we have no sense of safety at all when we take a shower? For this reason, the editor asked an expert, and after hearing him out, I finally understood that the bathroom may actually have these hidden hazards.

The expert told me that under normal circumstances, qualified tempered glass will not just explode at random. If an accident really does occur, the unique material of tempered glass will make it shatter into very small, blunt glass pieces that generally will not hurt anyone. Therefore, everyone had best choose tempered glass for our bathroom glass.

However, there are quite a few "tempered glass" products on the market now that are cheap substitutes passed off as the real thing. They are not truly tempered glass at all, but fake tempered glass disguised using raw materials that simply do not meet standards. This kind of glass cannot provide the protective effect that tempered glass should have at all, and many shattered shower enclosure glass panels are made of this stuff. The expert said we must be sure to buy tempered glass from legitimate channels with quality certification, and never gamble with our own life and health!

In addition, the expert also introduced us to a little method: we can apply a film to the glass, and this film can help protect us. If the glass unexpectedly shatters and explodes, the pieces will all stick to the film and will not spray onto people and cause injury. Have you learned it?