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Topics regarding quality of glass, its processing and its application in building. 

Low e argon unit failures

can anyone give me info on the low e argon filled units and why they go bad?my house is six years old and 11 out of 18 windows are bad and one even blew up. i was told about this problem by the glass store but i need more info on it.the company that makes them is saying they have never heard of this problem and that it is my fault.all the windows that r bad get full sunlight all the time and the good ones only get shade .so any info on the problem would be a big help thank you all

Glass breakage in fire.

I am currently investigating a fire which involved a glass table top. There was a candle and some other combustible items on the table. At what temperature would the glass top fail? I am thinking the combustible items ignited and the table top failed allowing ignition of the wooden table beneath the glass. Any info?

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Excessive solar heating

I have a large modern home in Toronto, Canada. The back of my house faces south and is 90 % windows. ( 10' by 10' windows). On sunny days the solar heat transfer is excessive. Current windows are low e. I have installed 3M film, but not much help. In fact, now that solar film is installed, I am experincing window cracking. Is there an engineered window system that will block most of the solar energy ? I prefer to stay away from mirrowed windows.

Windshield spontaneous crack

My windshield one cold day out of the blue cracked. From the bottom up about 5 inches and then across the window. I claimed it was defective glass that the dealer should replace under warranty. But they used this "ball point pen" test. They run a ball point pen along the crack and if they feel any chips then they say that the window was damaged by an object hitting the window.