Tempered glass bowed (pretty urgent)

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On Jul 17, 1:46 pm, Aaron Fude <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
> glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
> bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that that's
> piece "not bad".
>
> You can kind of see it on the picture here:
>
> http://freeboundaries.com/bow.jpg
>
> I'll try to take a better picture.
>
> Is the quality that I am getting reasonable, or should I make an issue
> out of this?
>
> Thanks!

make a big issue of this

On Jul 17, 12:46 pm, Aaron Fude <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
> glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
> bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that that's
> piece "not bad".
>
> You can kind of see it on the picture here:
>
> http://freeboundaries.com/bow.jpg
>
> I'll try to take a better picture.
>
> Is the quality that I am getting reasonable, or should I make an issue
> out of this?
>
> Thanks!

A Bad photo, cant see anything. But you are paying for a shower to
seal not to leak water.

"Aaron Fude" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:5de48969-1b50-4030-ab82-17001a5492e9@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
> glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
> bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that that's
> piece "not bad".
>
> You can kind of see it on the picture here:
>
> http://freeboundaries.com/bow.jpg
>
> I'll try to take a better picture.
>
> Is the quality that I am getting reasonable, or should I make an issue
> out of this?
>
> Thanks!

depends upon the tempering machine. some types always produce a bowed sheet.
others don't.

tell them to try again. that's too much for a professional installation.

regards,
charlie
http://glassartists.org/ChaniArts

Aaron Fude <[email protected]> wrote in news:5de48969-1b50-4030-ab82-
[email protected]:

> Hi,
>
> I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
> glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
> bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that that's
> piece "not bad".
>
> You can kind of see it on the picture here:
>
> http://freeboundaries.com/bow.jpg
>
> I'll try to take a better picture.
>
> Is the quality that I am getting reasonable, or should I make an issue
> out of this?
>
> Thanks!


> I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that
> that's piece "not bad".


I'm not familiar with frameless shower glass at all but Googling just a
few comments I'm seeing like $2500 and am sure it can go a lot higher for
more luxury. For this kind of pricing I'd say it looks like shit and if
they are truly all like that then it's a shit product for the bucks.

Won't water come out of that gap? They must caulk it huh? That gap filled
with caulk will look like shit. (note no "?" on last sentence)

Possible comment to the installer:

"So since tempered glass always bows, if I go to your showroom all the
tempered glass showers should be bowed like it".

| > I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
| > glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
| > bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that that's
| > piece "not bad".

| > I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that
| > that's piece "not bad".

| Won't water come out of that gap? They must caulk it huh? That gap filled
| with caulk will look like shit. (note no "?" on last sentence)
|
| Possible comment to the installer:
|
| "So since tempered glass always bows, if I go to your showroom all the
| tempered glass showers should be bowed like it".

...and don't forget... "If you finish the installation and I don't like the
bow in the glass, you will come back and replace the whole installation, on
your own dime of course!"

"Calab" <[email protected]> wrote in news:SGUfk.10752$nD.6894@pd7urf1no:

>
>| > I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
>| > glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
>| > bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that
>| > that's piece "not bad".

That doesn't make sense (how it was explained to you.)
I think they're trying to pull a fast one.

>
>| > I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that
>| > that's piece "not bad".
>
>| Won't water come out of that gap? They must caulk it huh? That gap
>| filled with caulk will look like shit. (note no "?" on last sentence)
>|
>| Possible comment to the installer:
>|
>| "So since tempered glass always bows, if I go to your showroom all
>| the tempered glass showers should be bowed like it".
>
> ...and don't forget... "If you finish the installation and I don't
> like the bow in the glass, you will come back and replace the whole
> installation, on your own dime of course!"
>
>
>

On Thu 17 Jul 2008 10:46:36a, Aaron Fude told us...

> Hi,
>
> I have glass guys at my house right now installing frameless shower
> glass. There is a 90 mitered corner that developed a gap at the
> bottom. I'm being told that tempered glass always bows and that that's
> piece "not bad".
>
> You can kind of see it on the picture here:
>
> http://freeboundaries.com/bow.jpg
>
> I'll try to take a better picture.
>
> Is the quality that I am getting reasonable, or should I make an issue
> out of this?
>
> Thanks!
>

You have a high end shower with heavy tempered glass. There should *never*
be a gap like that in such an installation. As far as I'm concerned, this
poor workmanship is totally unacceptable, you damned right I'd make an
issue of it.

I have had two custom showers and have seen many others, and I have never
seen a gap where the edges of the glass panels meet. Doesn't matter if
it's a 90° angle or some other angle. A friend of mine has a hexagonal
mitered glass shower and there are no gaps.

You are being handed a line of crap by people who don't know what they're
doing.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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