I've got a pair of Wickes pine french doors, each with 8 bevelled toughened glass panels. The doors were "paint and peel", so once hung they were varnished and awaited the rest of the room to be decorated before cutting and peeling the plastic off the glass panels. The glass was peeled off on Saturday afternoon and around 15 minutes later one of the panels spontaneously started to shatter like a car windscreen. I could hear and see this going on for around 20 minutes.
I have two questions. a) What on earth could have caused this? and b) as I don't want to take the door back to Wickes and change it (it being planed to size, hung and completely finished) am I likely to be able to go to a glass merchant and have a piece of toughened bevelled glass made to the right size?
I've already approached Wickes who have said they do not sell the glass for the door but they have given me the phone number of Finnforest, who apparently supply the doors. I have not contacted Finnforest yet, but as the doors had "made in South Africa" on the bottom I think it unlikely that Finnforest will be able to supply me with a glass panel...
Any suggestions gratefully received.
thanks,
Justin