[combat1]

So, first clean on Army Officers house.
Very dirty frames and windows at front of house.
Landing / stairs window about 3'x2' upvc type sealed unit.
Cleaned the frame and moved to lounge window. Cleaned lounge window frame.
Back to landing window, cleaned glass and rinsed. All ok
Cleaned lounge glass and rinsed.
Turned round and immediately noticed a crack from bottom left corner to top right corner in the landing window.
Water at 44 degrees, Gardiner superlite brush.
Couldn't have banged the window,  angle too steep and it was ok after rinsing.
Saw the guy who was ok. Going to say it was the weather to the maintenance company.
Failing that I have insurance on glass worked on.
Any thoughts guys?
 

[dazmond]

yes it was the hot water.if you d used cold it wouldnt of cracked!

[M & C Window Cleaning]

The glass was likely already stressed, perhaps due to a deformed frame (hot weather and all that) or movement in the property and your 44° degree water just stressed it beyond what it could tollerate.  Water at 44° degrees would not normally crack glass especially not in this warm weather.

[Splash & dash]

Could be a small chip in the glass and cracked from that with the hot , I had that happen on one small pain when I looked there was a small chip by the glass beading I think the window fitters did it putting the beading in glass cracked from bottom to top , cleaned 10 s of thousands of windows with hot it's the only one I have had it happen to

[Martin Lane]

Hi
Don't bother with  the insurance , you will have to pay the first few hundred and your insurance will go up next  year and in the long run you will be paying for it for years
Get a quote from a local glass company  and just pay the invoice  and put it down to a bad day

Martin

[Marc Stock]

I agree with martin. Its not worth claiming.

I cracked a load of roof tiles last year, cost me £450 to repair them. Excess was going to be £300 and claiming would have put my premium up 40 percent.  Just not worth it.

[Dave Anderson]

Its an officers (Rupert) house, who cares ! .... Just like a lighthouse in the desert... Bright but no use to man nor beast... ! :-) Tell him he did it !

[Bungle]

I agree with martin. Its not worth claiming.

I cracked a load of roof tiles last year, cost me £450 to repair them. Excess was going to be £300 and claiming would have put my premium up 40 percent.  Just not worth it.

You cracked A LOAD of roof tiles?  What are you an elephant or a baffoon?

[Marc Stock]

I agree with martin. Its not worth claiming.

I cracked a load of roof tiles last year, cost me £450 to repair them. Excess was going to be £300 and claiming would have put my premium up 40 percent.  Just not worth it.

You cracked A LOAD of roof tiles?  What are you an elephant or a baffoon?

I was carrying some extra winter weight.....

No what happened was the roof pitch was too shallow, it should be a flat roof really but they went for a pitched tile roof at like 35 degrees... so walking on them crack crack crack crack, all in a row.....

they are already getting rain coming in at certain angles.

[Dry Clean]

Not a chance that you cracked the window with 44 degrees of hot, I doubt you could even have done it with 90 degrees at this time of the year, nothing to do with you.

[Splash & dash]

Not a chance that you cracked the window with 44 degrees of hot, I doubt you could even have done it with 90 degrees at this time of the year, nothing to do with you.

Yes you can that's how we broke one if there is a small chip an increase in temperature it can crack across the pain at any time , either by heat or cold car wind screens is a classic example of this if you have a chip in the screen on a frosty night you can come out the next morning and find it's turned into a crack or will crack as you defrost the glass