Electric oven: broken glass in door

Easy and 35 quid according to this:

Toughened glass can have faults which cause this, but it normally happens quite soon after manufacture and initial use. I would think this is unlikely 20 months later, unless they hardly ever used it.

More likely, it was bashed by something very hard which scratched it (but not necessarily bashed vary hard), but you're never going to be able to prove that. If it was dirty, someone might have been trying to clean it with an inappropriate tool.

(The other thought that occurs to me is they broke it because it got dirty and they thought getting a new one would be easier than cleaning it.)

It says so on the first site google gave me in a search.

Some daft folk think that the safest way to open a hot glass door is with a cold wet tea towel. Not a good idea.

Tim

Yes I saw that but I'm wary of the bland kind of statement they make and would rather trust the opinion of someone on here who might have fitted one!

or put a large dish in the oven and then slam the door - onto a protruding handle of said large dish....

Jim

What a useful site!

These glass doors. or rather the inner glass panel do sometimes disintegrate for no apparent reason, so I understand from the fitter who reinstalled ours. Our door had been in use (daily) for over five years before it failed and as far as we know it had not received any previous damage to set up an area of local stress that could have precipitated the failure.