Property Damage caused by Product

pinkshoes

IvanOpinion said:

We have had a 3-4 year old bath screen 'spontaneously' disintegrate on us, fortunately neither of us were in the room at the time (it sounds similar to the sort you had with pivot point at top and bottom). An independent plumber (the one that came to fit the new screen I had bought) said that the original could have received one too many knocks (an elbow here, a knee there) or expansion/contraction finally weakened something somewhere. Apparently it is not uncommon, any time you put something brittle under stress there is a risk it can fail.

Good luck with your claim, but I think you may be setting your sights to high. Maybe you can claim off your insurance for the bath.

I had the same about 18 years ago. The screen just shattered spontaneously!

Bathrooms are humid, hot/cold from shower etc... and the screens do get knocked and bashed which could cause a weakness. 

Ours just shattered after my housemate had had a hot bath! She had opened the window afterwards and it would appear the change in temp and no doubt a weakness in the glass caused it to shatter.

Since then I know so many people it happened to so it's quite common!

So although the thin plastic pins in this case probably caused the screen to fall, the shattering was probably caused by long term weakening.

sheramber

pinkshoes said:

IvanOpinion said:

We have had a 3-4 year old bath screen 'spontaneously' disintegrate on us, fortunately neither of us were in the room at the time (it sounds similar to the sort you had with pivot point at top and bottom). An independent plumber (the one that came to fit the new screen I had bought) said that the original could have received one too many knocks (an elbow here, a knee there) or expansion/contraction finally weakened something somewhere. Apparently it is not uncommon, any time you put something brittle under stress there is a risk it can fail.

Good luck with your claim, but I think you may be setting your sights to high. Maybe you can claim off your insurance for the bath.

I had the same about 18 years ago. The screen just shattered spontaneously!

Bathrooms are humid, hot/cold from shower etc... and the screens do get knocked and bashed which could cause a weakness. 

Ours just shattered after my housemate had had a hot bath! She had opened the window afterwards and it would appear the change in temp and no doubt a weakness in the glass caused it to shatter.

Since then I know so many people it happened to so it's quite common!

So although the thin plastic pins in this case probably caused the screen to fall, the shattering was probably caused by long term weakening.

The OP hasn’t mentioned shattering. He said the screen fell. In one piece?

pinkshoes

sheramber said:

pinkshoes said:

IvanOpinion said:

We have had a 3-4 year old bath screen 'spontaneously' disintegrate on us, fortunately neither of us were in the room at the time (it sounds similar to the sort you had with pivot point at top and bottom). An independent plumber (the one that came to fit the new screen I had bought) said that the original could have received one too many knocks (an elbow here, a knee there) or expansion/contraction finally weakened something somewhere. Apparently it is not uncommon, any time you put something brittle under stress there is a risk it can fail.

Good luck with your claim, but I think you may be setting your sights to high. Maybe you can claim off your insurance for the bath.

I had the same about 18 years ago. The screen just shattered spontaneously!

Bathrooms are humid, hot/cold from shower etc... and the screens do get knocked and bashed which could cause a weakness. 

Ours just shattered after my housemate had had a hot bath! She had opened the window afterwards and it would appear the change in temp and no doubt a weakness in the glass caused it to shatter.

Since then I know so many people it happened to so it's quite common!

So although the thin plastic pins in this case probably caused the screen to fall, the shattering was probably caused by long term weakening.

The OP hasn’t mentioned shattering. He said the screen fell. In one piece?

They said "it cut me in a few places" which I assumed meant it shattered/broke as otherwise I'm not sure how the OP would sustain a few cuts.

sheramber

pinkshoes said:

sheramber said:

pinkshoes said:

IvanOpinion said:

We have had a 3-4 year old bath screen 'spontaneously' disintegrate on us, fortunately neither of us were in the room at the time (it sounds similar to the sort you had with pivot point at top and bottom). An independent plumber (the one that came to fit the new screen I had bought) said that the original could have received one too many knocks (an elbow here, a knee there) or expansion/contraction finally weakened something somewhere. Apparently it is not uncommon, any time you put something brittle under stress there is a risk it can fail.

Good luck with your claim, but I think you may be setting your sights to high. Maybe you can claim off your insurance for the bath.

I had the same about 18 years ago. The screen just shattered spontaneously!

Bathrooms are humid, hot/cold from shower etc... and the screens do get knocked and bashed which could cause a weakness. 

Ours just shattered after my housemate had had a hot bath! She had opened the window afterwards and it would appear the change in temp and no doubt a weakness in the glass caused it to shatter.

Since then I know so many people it happened to so it's quite common!

So although the thin plastic pins in this case probably caused the screen to fall, the shattering was probably caused by long term weakening.

The OP hasn’t mentioned shattering. He said the screen fell. In one piece?

They said "it cut me in a few places" which I assumed meant it shattered/broke as otherwise I'm not sure how the OP would sustain a few cuts.

It could have broken when hitting him or something else on the way down.

He says the screen came out of the fittings.

That is not the same as shattering in situ.