Broken Glass on Freedom Bay

[drewjube]

Hi All, I have a 4-year-old Lopi Freedom Bay insert that I purchased new. I have never overfired it and have otherwise used it in a consistently safe manner. However, this morning, after loading and starting a fire, the glass front cleanly cracked down the middle and split the glass into two pieces, one of which fell out. Any ideas what might cause that to happen?

 

[mellow]

Most of the time it is from shutting the door with a piece of wood up against the glass, the other times are from a split rolling into the window.

In your case the way you describe it, it could have been a screw was tightened down a bit too much and in time it just wore out the glass till it cracked or you had an imperfection in the glass.

Call your local glass places, I have noticed most of them will stock some neo/pyro ceram glass, take the glass with you so they can get exact measurements.

 

[drewjube]

Most of the time it is from shutting the door with a piece of wood up against the glass, the other times are from a split rolling into the window.

In your case the way you describe it, it could have been a screw was tightened down a bit too much and in time it just wore out the glass till it cracked or you had an imperfection in the glass.

Call your local glass places, I have noticed most of them will stock some neo/pyro ceram glass, take the glass with you so they can get exact measurements.

Thanks for the great advice. I found a glass place that says they can replace it if I take the door down.