nevins Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Right then guys, If any one has bought a dining table from the Range that is made from black glass with another sheet suspended from the top level, with alloy round legs, please be careful. I have just spent the last hour and half cleaning up smashed glass. With out warning I watched as it collapsed on itself. Not only that, it has gouged the fresh wallpaper I hung 3 days ago, and where the lower panel fell and did not shatter , the 4 threaded bars that attach it to the top part have left for deep marks in the laminate flooring. Please keep an eye out if you have one of the tables, thank god my little nephew was not here as he is always playing in the dining room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopgunTT Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 That looks a right mess mate, I expect it did take a while to clear up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d_d Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 wow, what happened there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevins Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 A right nightmare, was looking into the room and it just went, you can see how it fell as the legs just went from under it and all ended up pointing outwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westy Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 How old was this table!? Hope you are taking it up with whoever you bought it from!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentAgro Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Fuuuuuuuuuuuudge dude. I'm glad no one was near it when it went. Luckily its made from safety glass so no sharp edges, but it would of hurt if it landed on someone! >. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevins Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 The table was around 4-5 months old. Was from The Range, was £390 for the table alone. As for safety glass most of it went in to pieces but there was quite a lot of what looked like knife blades, which was actually the edge of the glass which did not shatter, even when hit when I was cleaning up. I will be going down to them tomorrow with 2 buckets full of glass, 4 legs and images of the damage to the floor and wall. Worst part is in some of the pics you can see a red basket style box in the right of the images, this had crystal glasses and ornaments belong to my mums late mother which have been smashed, no way of replacing them either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty71 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Was this a flat pack assembly item, ie you make it up yourself Gareth? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 You were trying to take a dump on it weren't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevins Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 Was this a flat pack assembly item, ie you make it up yourself Gareth? Yes it was and it was done tight enough to hold, and not over tightened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 You were trying to take a dump on it weren't you? So I wasnt the only person thinking that Seriously though lucky nobody was near that when it went. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 So I wasnt the only person thinking that Seriously though lucky nobody was near that when it went. Only the person holding the camera? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_jza80 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 glad no one was hurt, it'll make me think again about having glass furniture in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Plethora Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 Had something similar years ago whilst living at home, their cooker hobs had a glass lid that most of the time stays up, just walked in the kicthen and it just shattered! made me jump but I felt a bit jedi after that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 only the person holding the camera? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 That's really bad. Hope you get some compensation for the damage to your wall and floor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevins Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage Some interesting stuff in that link, especially the part about the stainless steel causing problems. This had metal inserts in the glass that the fittings fixed into. From now on im only buying non metal furniture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 This happened to a window in the library of a college I built. One evening as a tutor/librarian was walking down the stairs, one of the office windows opposite jsut exploded into cubes. She was very shaken up as she was in the building alone. It was deemed to be Nickel Suplhide Inclusion based. I don't suppose that made her feel any better. Its a rare thing but it does still happen, even though the glass industry is trying to improve purity standards as much as they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 DP, iirc, this happened at Liverpool Street Station waay back in the '90s before it re-opened. Only problem there was they had tried to be clever and the roof DG units were toughened outer and toughened laminated inner panes. When the inner pane broke, instead of shattering into thousands of harmless cubes, the laminating plastic sheets held it all together so it sagged down until the edges were pulled out of the frame....cue a huge single piece of glass and plastic falling all the way down onto the platform floor. Potentially lethal. Some shopping centres installed tiny steel wires below their overhead glazing to catch any falls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 You can't beat good old British manufacturing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TubbyTwo Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 oh dear, I have a similar table from said shop...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marbleapple Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 Seems very odd to me. If it wasn't for the fact that it is Nevins who is the OP, i'd remain unconvinced that it just collapsed without any intervention from anyone or anything. I can see the obvious arguments from The Range.... overtightening etc etc. Edit: I know of a circumstance where boiling hot water was poured into a cafetiere and the glass exploded when the plunger was pressed down..... the glass just failed and did significant damage to a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_glass_breakage It'll be this one: Inadequate glass thickness to resist wind load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevins Posted February 28, 2011 Author Share Posted February 28, 2011 Still got my head fried after a nights rest how it could just go, was cool to watch it go though. One minute its fine then the top just disintegrated, lower went down level while the legs went outwards. Its the kind of thing you wished happened when you had a camera filming. Scared the life out of the cat which I had to wrestle into my arms while it ripped me apart asi was fighting to get the window open to get him out the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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