Yesterday while line trimming I kicked up a stone and broke the outer pane of a double tempered glass panel in a door. I have the new OEM glass assembly, which is relatively simple to replace.

What is the best way to contain the shattered glass so I remove the door and change out the panel?

I've thought about pressing cardboard with an adhesive onto it. I could also use duct tape, packing tape, blue tape, etc.

I'm probably going to get one shot at this before the panel disintegrates.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Tape or spray it down with flex seal.

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Originally posted by MikeGLI:
Tape or spray it down with flex seal.

Then use it to go fishing.

I'd just use wide masking tape. Even if some of it breaks and gets loose, can't you just use a shopvac on it?

Apply a full roll of duct tape, or however much needed for full coverage, front and rear. When you get it fully removed, lay it on a big piece of cardboard and gently create multiple fractures with a hammer. Then fold up inside the cardboard. Shop-vac as necessary.

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Originally posted by MikeGLI:
Tape or spray it down with flex seal.

If I can tape out the area and use this it will save time. Home Depot has it in stock.

Thank you, MikeGLI, for taking the time to answer my question. gearhounds, I also appreciate your help.

Cover it with packing tape, then remove.

Something like this might work?

https://www.lowes.com/pd/GILA-...-Window-Film/1065343

Good Luck

I was going to use tape, but if a spray will work, I prefer that. The panel is 62"x20". I'm concerned while I'm taping one part, another part will fall apart.

Since it shouldn't break into sharp pieces like regular glass, I'd just hit it carefully until it falls out into a pile and sweep it up.

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Originally posted by deepocean:

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Originally posted by MikeGLI:
Tape or spray it down with flex seal.

If I can tape out the area and use this it will save time. Home Depot has it in stock.

Thank you, MikeGLI, for taking the time to answer my question. gearhounds, I also appreciate your help.

If you go the flex-seal route and don't video & post it here, you are banned from the forum.

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Originally posted by 220-9er:
Since it shouldn't break into sharp pieces like regular glass, I'd just hit it carefully until it falls out into a pile and sweep it up.

Where the stone hit is fractured into a million small slivers, tenuously held together, similar to auto glass. I do not want any slivers in the house, or on the patio where my kids play.

I will do a few simple things to contain it, take the door off, put it on a horse, change out the panel, and put it back up.

Fortunately the glass panel has an integrated gasket, so it does not require an adhesive. It is held onto the door by two trim panels and 18 screws.

I was grateful the door shop of a local independent lumber company stocked it. They told me the local glass shops buy the OEM panels from them.

Wide masking tape is the normal tool.

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If you go the flex-seal route and don't video & post it here, you are banned from the forum.

+1

Don't wear flip flop. That's my contribution.

It's all done, except for painting the trim, which will happen tomorrow. I went the flex seal route. It worked well. Although the panel broke into pieces after I put it on the horse, it was outside, in pieces, not slivers.

I did not record this. How does one record while working with two hands?

This is actually the second time that glass was replaced, including the first time when someone shot at our glass with a pellet gun.

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I did not record this. How does one record while working with two hands?

Significant other. Was hoping to see the FLEX Seal in action.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

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I did not record this. How does one record while working with two hands?

Significant other. Was hoping to see the FLEX Seal in action.

There were a lot of fumes. I was the one wearing a respirator. Ten minutes later, you could smell the fumes 30 feet away.

It went on like thick spray paint. One is supposed to wait 1-2 days for it to fully cure. I waited until it was no longer tacky. Had I waited, it probably would have worked even better.

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I did not record this.

banned

From a fair amount of experience. You will either have a single panel our a double panel of tempered glass. Or you could have a laminated piece of tempered glass.

If you have a single panel our a double panel then do this:

1. Lay a single drop cloth below the window to catch the glass fragments.
2. Reverse your hammer and knock against the broken panel until it all falls out of the frame.
3. Remove the drop cloth and dump the glass.
4. Sweep or shop vac any remaining glass pieces.

If you cover the panel and use tape on the edges to hold it in place, the broken glass will fall away anyway.

If you try to tape over the broken panel it will be a wasted effort because it will probably crumble as you try to apply the tape. If you are successful covering the panel with tape, it will fold and drop glass as you try to remove it.

So, cut out the middle wasted effort and just break it out.

If you have a piece of laminated tempered glass, then the lamination material will hold the glass in place, so just remove the panel.

Wear eye protection, because the tempered pieces will ususally send a few fragments when moved.

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