What a Mirror Looks Like When it Breaks

Описание: Glass.com's Daniel Snow teams up with Dustin Anderson from Anderson Glass in Waco, TX to test their luck by breaking a piece of mirror. The broken pieces are often sharp and dangerous. Lots of caution should be used when cleaning up broken mirror.

Transcript:

Daniel: Alright, so Dustin we're here today to break some glass with you!

Dustin: Right. This is a good time, right?

Daniel: Yea, absolutely. What do we have here?

Dustin: So this is quarter-inch mirror. This is basically standard mirror that's used in almost any residential and/or commercial application. It's a quarter-inch annealed glass, which basically means plate glass. It's not a safety product. It's got a coating on the back that makes it reflective. But for all intensive purposes, that's a piece of clear glass when we start.

Daniel: So what we want to do is we're going to break this glass. We want to take a look at kind of how it breaks, and tell people how, in the clean up process, what to watch out for and that sort of thing.

Dustin: For sure. I'm going to let you grab that wrench and do the swinging and I'm going to step out of here for a minute.

Daniel: So yea, as you can see, I mean, this is really sharp right here. Lots of jagged pieces down below. But, they are big pieces for the most part.

Dustin: For the most part. You'll get a lot of shaving, so there will be some small pieces. There's really no great way to do this but put shoes on, probably find rubber gloves if you've got them. Pick the large pieces up, get them in a box. If you put them in a bag obviously they're going to rip through. And then do some serious sweeping after the fact.

Daniel: Yea, for sure!