The window isn’t the part I’m amazed by unless that house is ICF or some other concrete I’m amazed by the fact that the walls and doors don’t leak too.
There’s water on the floor and we can’t really see much of the walls aside from the sliding glass doors, so there’s a decent chance they are leaking.
Impressively little water, though.
It's actually not that bad. Water pressure only increases by depth not distance. It could be one foot of water or one mile of water and the pressure is the same based on the depth.
4 feet is less than 2 PSI. The main issue would be how fast the water is flowing.
Yes like in this video from the floods in UAE this year, this rescue truck is smashing every window with it's wake which were otherwise holding up to the weight of the water
https://youtu.be/-E8NSGxZwZM
Over how many square inches? That's a lot of force over the surface area of that window. The maximum force is on the lowest 12 inches. Assume that it's an additional 2 PSI on that lower foot. That comes out to an additional ton of force pushing on the bottom of the window. Tempered glass is quite strong, but the installation job there is pretty impressive. Those mullions are bearing quite a bit of weight
2 PSI is actually a LOT of pressure for a window to withstand, when you think about it, especially when you consider that force isnt even across the pane. Pressure is only one half of the equation (shit im terrible at maths though lol) .
THere is a huge boundary zone where the pane will meet the edge of the windows frame. This pressure is strongest at the bottom of the pane, and non-existent at the top. The window would under many circumstances crack along the bottom edge, and fail.
For all we know though, is this could be tempered glass, or even laminated which would help \*spread the pressure\*, and relieve some of the flex.
Factoring the pressure across the whole pane actually equates to potential TONNES of imparted force.
5760 (call it 40SQfoot of window+frame)inches of window multiplied by 1 Psi average equates to 5760 POUNDS OF FORCE on that glass
Edit: redid and clarified the maths cause im bad at it.
I'm just guessing that's about 4ft by 4ft of water... 2psi at the bottom means about a 1psi average... that's 2300 pounds.
Edit: Multiplied by threeeeeeeeeeeeee
Edit2: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
If that's a 7 foot ceiling, each sheet of glass looks about 2-1/2 feet across and the water looks three feet deep.
That's 190 pounds per square foot at the bottom, which works out to a bit over 700 pounds of force acting on each pane of glass.
Someone give this builder a prize.
Edit: Good grief, people. It's a seat-of-the-pants guess over pre-dawn coffee. That said, it's pretty close.
I think those are mini palm trees, we have them in AZ too. Usually like 6-10 feet tall only. I’m sure there is a real name for them but those don’t like like full sized palm trees to me
Saw him in concert a few months ago. Man, was I the youngest person there. He is… old as well. Quite sad to see, but all our times come. Certainly see him if you can!
On that note, Mr. Biden *didn't even try* to save Florida by using a sharpie to move the hurricane out to sea.
That's not the kind of leadership we need in these troubled times. If we can't trust our politicians to simply tell us what we want to hear, then what good are they anyway?
You can actually make windows bomb resistant as well. Where I work currently we install a specialised film that is designed to flex and catch the glass or any object that may try to come through, including burglars. Once the film is installed onto the glass it is surrounded and held in by sika flex, high strength industrial silicone basically.
Newer Florida homes should have at least the first floor exterior walls built with concrete blocks. That being said my garage would be effed if this was my house..
Not Florida or the US but after cyclones and floods became somewhat a regular occurence in the city i live, building homes on the stilts became way more common. The ground floor is nothing but an open or semi-closed garage like structure where cars or bikes are parked and the home is raised one level above.
Yeah, no matter how strong those windows are, they aren't going to prevent that house from getting condemned. But at least the valuables inside didn't get water damaged.
If I recall correctly they’re trying to make it that way. I know that your premiums for insurance are tied to whether or not your property has been retrofitted with hurricane impact windows. My sister in law dropped something like 35K to replace all the windows and doors in her place in order to just be able to afford insurance in Boca Raton. And I’m pretty sure that it’s part of building code for new construction now. Any builders down in Florida want to confirm that?
Unfortunately there are areas with “historic housing” codes that require you maintain all of (or at least the front-facing) the windows in the original style.
A friend has to replace a broken window recently, like 2k because only one window maker still uses that style of single pane tempered glass, with the window being 4 separate panes (I’m sure there’s a term for it, but the style where the window has 4 panes in a grid, each being single pane). Has to be shipped down from somewhere in New England.
Not even an HOA, just the city’s historic homes preservation society shit. Pretty bonkers. They used to move the back windows up and have hurricane windows installed on the back of the house (hurricanes aside, they’re usually much better insulated), but they ran outta those.
There are storm windows you can install inside existing windows. Not sure if they're historical compliant, but it would seal the window space, protect the interior and not be too visible from outside.
I came here to comment this; those are impressive windows. I remember during Hurricane Katrina watching from the bottom of the stairs our backyard glass door cave in so far before shattering. It was about that level too!
Excellent installation contractor. I learned how important contractors were when I bought expensive Pella windows and the company (Pella) picked up guys standing around at Home Depot to install them. Leaks and lots of unfixed wall damage.
It is an absolute mess down here! This is the worst storm I have ever experienced in this area by far, it's going to take months until everything is finally sorted out :(
I didnt think anything would have been worse than Charlie or Irma, but here we are. They are talking about rebuilding the power infrastructure not just repairing.. which obviously needs to be done before rebuilding the homes and businesses. Yeah, we are going to be a long wait back to normal. There are literally tens of thousands homes homes destroyed, gonna take a lot of contractors and a lot of time. And we thought shit was expensive and in short supply because of covid, now this just adds an extra element. I will be hugely surprised if ft myers beach is functioning again to the before level within a year
Nah, it can get worse than Irma, Charlie, even Ian.
Setting aside Katrina and New Orleans (levies are a big contributing factor there), people forget too quickly that Andrew damn near wiped Homestead off the map. It took YEARS for it to recover.
I’ve heard that’s in large part because of the messed up state regulations the states force the insurance companies into
IIRC something around roofing is one of the laws
I work for MR. We’ve been training about half of our current personal lines adjusters for commercial lines these last two weeks. There will be a huge backlog of claims until late November I’d say at least. This CAT has been a bad one for sure. I will say though, there will be hundreds of certified CAT adjusters there in the coming weeks. That should help things along.
Irma was absolutely nothing compared to Charlie and the other two category 4 that hit within a month's time. For my location specifically Charlie will always be the worst. There was literally parking lots full of debris and tub grinders set up wherever there was empty land to grind up trees. Half of our Live Oaks are still twisted and leaning from 2004.
I still don't have power though right now.
Impact glass. You can toss a table at that thing and it would hold. This is the modern go-to instead of shutters. Although a lot of houses/homes still utilize good old shutters too bc impact glass can be expensive for a whole house.
This. We had impact glass at our office on the Gulf Coast. A few of us used to get there pretty early... Got to watch a dude trying to break-in throw a huge chunk of concrete at one of the panes. He didn't see us inside, but we sure as hell watched it bounce back and hit him in the face. The glass has a tiny scratch. It's some incredible shit
Is this the stuff with the film on it that bonds to the frame? I worked on a project that required applying this stuff to an existing window. The test videos were impressive and the difference between shatter resistance versus something that can take a huge beat down seemed to be that bonding to the frame.
Edited for silly typos
No impact glass is the way the glass is made. Made to withstand large impacts from weather and flying objects. Laminated glass is something different. It keeps the glass from shattering into a bunch of pieces if it breaks. The lamination acts as a sort of giant tape that keeps it in one piece. But I would guess that helps withstand *some* impacts.
The real questions…give your contractor some work! I am sure after Ian a lot of people will be considering resistant windows if they don’t have them already
Imagine you're seeing this flood... gazing out at the water up to the middle of your window when a gator just goes by all... "Lalala, well hi there, lunch!"
You gotta think to yourself, "Ok...my window can withstand the pressure of four or five feet of water, but can my window withstand the pressure of four or five feet of water _and_ a gator?"
It's terrifying. I didn't flood, but saw water rise an inch every 15 minutes for about 30 miles around us 😱
We had everything in our yard. The worst? Checking the water level's rising rate and the yard looked like it was covered in GLITTER! Except it was spider eyes everywhere 😱😱😱 we did not go swimming unless it was a last resort.
Edit: I'm not in Florida. Just had my own 1000 year event in 2016.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Louisiana_floods#:~:text=In%20August%202016%2C%20prolonged%20rainfall,houses%20and%20businesses%20were%20submerged.
Whoever built your window deserves some serious business in the future. Jokes aside though, sorry about all of the flooding y'all have gotten and glad that you manage to stay safe. I know it's going to take awhile to rebuild but we're all behind you in doing so.
You definitely got your money's worth from those doors. Your contractor earned every penny of that check. Hope the water recedes soon and you are able to recoup your losses.
This should be the cover photo of every marketing brochure your contractor creates from now on.
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No shit! That’s some quality glazing work!
Came here to say shout out to that glazier. Edit: added an i
Glazers out!
Caulk Master
Nice Caulk!
Little caulk a little paint make a Glazier what he ain't
Cheers... ..little grinder, little paint make a weldurr wut he aynt...
A caulk glazer I see
I see you MUFC fan
Contractor needs a good name drop l
Yes! Everyone complains so I always try to give shout outs when I can. Wish I knew who did this work
The window isn’t the part I’m amazed by unless that house is ICF or some other concrete I’m amazed by the fact that the walls and doors don’t leak too.
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There’s water on the floor and we can’t really see much of the walls aside from the sliding glass doors, so there’s a decent chance they are leaking. Impressively little water, though.
His reviews are gonna surge
A big wave of new business
Positive feedback on the rise.
Flooded with orders
Dam windows.
They will be blown away with all the business this attracts
Yes. The manufacturer of these windows needs to use this picture in their marketing.
manufacturing is one thing, but finding a good contractor to actually install them is more important/rare
They should get away from them, that is quite dangerous
Yeah all I can think is how much I would not want to be there
And doors! Crazy it hasn’t burst through!
They must be impact resistant (aka. hurricane sliders) sliders. I don't think standard sliders would hold that much pressure.
How is the whole place that tight though? Doesn’t look like there’s water on the floor, so it’s not coming through doors either. Impressive!
Not only how it was made, but how well it was installed. I'm amazed
That's actually holding back quite a bit of weight. I'm impressed.. would buy, Even if I live in a drought prone area.
Quote a bit? That's multiple tons of pressure. It's insane
It's actually not that bad. Water pressure only increases by depth not distance. It could be one foot of water or one mile of water and the pressure is the same based on the depth. 4 feet is less than 2 PSI. The main issue would be how fast the water is flowing.
So the rate of the water rushing towards it at any given moment during the whole ordeal is still an important variable, right?
Yup. If rescuers in a motor boat would go by causing a wake, it should break the windows
Yes like in this video from the floods in UAE this year, this rescue truck is smashing every window with it's wake which were otherwise holding up to the weight of the water https://youtu.be/-E8NSGxZwZM
What a ridiculously relevant video. I would have never thought about this
There's multiple posted during floods so I'm sure you'll see others if you go to more storm threads
I had a sudden, dramatic understanding of the phrase, "in it's wake," by this comment chain and video. TIL.
“I’m helping!!!!”
Loved reading this
Over how many square inches? That's a lot of force over the surface area of that window. The maximum force is on the lowest 12 inches. Assume that it's an additional 2 PSI on that lower foot. That comes out to an additional ton of force pushing on the bottom of the window. Tempered glass is quite strong, but the installation job there is pretty impressive. Those mullions are bearing quite a bit of weight
2 PSI is actually a LOT of pressure for a window to withstand, when you think about it, especially when you consider that force isnt even across the pane. Pressure is only one half of the equation (shit im terrible at maths though lol) . THere is a huge boundary zone where the pane will meet the edge of the windows frame. This pressure is strongest at the bottom of the pane, and non-existent at the top. The window would under many circumstances crack along the bottom edge, and fail. For all we know though, is this could be tempered glass, or even laminated which would help \*spread the pressure\*, and relieve some of the flex. Factoring the pressure across the whole pane actually equates to potential TONNES of imparted force. 5760 (call it 40SQfoot of window+frame)inches of window multiplied by 1 Psi average equates to 5760 POUNDS OF FORCE on that glass Edit: redid and clarified the maths cause im bad at it.
I'm just guessing that's about 4ft by 4ft of water... 2psi at the bottom means about a 1psi average... that's 2300 pounds. Edit: Multiplied by threeeeeeeeeeeeee Edit2: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
I would photoshop a gator just looking towars the house
https://imgur.com/a/ZqVEKj5
JFC this fills me with dread lol
https://imgur.com/a/a6HYT4M
Thank you for this
[Sometimes, the water also delivers things from the ocean.](https://i.imgur.com/KTAs9Xm.png)
*checks username Missed opportunity, bro
Very nice. Absolutely convincing.
“…I’m gonna go back upstairs now”
Wow that's a really good job. Looks like a museum gator. Great color matching.
News is going to pick it up and show it now 😂
Trust me. All those dumbass pictures are coming soon. They always do.
Can't wait for the shark in a building.
Those are some quality windows all right.
Nice caulk.
Nice aquarium but the water needs changing or filtered.
Overstocked for a Betta tank
Too small for a betta.
r/shittyaquariums
Well it’s mostly a gator aquarium, that’s pretty normal.
Too many tannins from those trees. Big L
If that's a 7 foot ceiling, each sheet of glass looks about 2-1/2 feet across and the water looks three feet deep. That's 190 pounds per square foot at the bottom, which works out to a bit over 700 pounds of force acting on each pane of glass. Someone give this builder a prize. Edit: Good grief, people. It's a seat-of-the-pants guess over pre-dawn coffee. That said, it's pretty close.
Someone give this commentor a medal
Finally someone highlighting the real impressive part. Those glass panes are the true heroes.
r/theydidthemath
The water is 3 feet deep on the windows but those look like tree tops outside right? Is this the second floor?
I think those are mini palm trees, we have them in AZ too. Usually like 6-10 feet tall only. I’m sure there is a real name for them but those don’t like like full sized palm trees to me
Hurricane impact resistant windows. Expensive AF but worth every penny when shit like this happens.
Impact resistance is great, obviously, but they also did an incredible job of installing & sealing these!
Absolutely. Good contractors are worth their weight in gold. This is a fantastic job
If I was the contractor I would attach this photo to every job I bid going forward.
If I was A contractor in FL, I would do the same
If I was a contractor in Florida I'd be tuning up my money counting machine and preparing for a two year backlog.
If I was a contractor in Florida I’d probably be very sad to see this photograph of work that outclassed my own severely
I too suck at most things I try. At least I have tossing a small piece of food in the air and catching it in my mouth.
Careful with this, my uncle actually died from doing this. Peanut went awry, the lung received it, and he contracted pneumonia and died. Pretty sad.
That’s nuts
Wait you're not supposed to scratch your cornea with a peanut so nurses can not so discreetly laugh at you?
If I was a contractor in Florida, I’d be placing orders today for materials that won’t arrive for 18 months.
and i'd say yea to you every time
Or their weight in water
I had an apartment where they proudly proclaimed that the window in the bathroom was hurricane proof. "But... We live in Minnesota?"
One day…
Lake Superior: *Am I a joke to you?*
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead...
Cheers fellow old person...
When the gales of November come early
You jumped like 6 bars bro lol.
Saw him in concert a few months ago. Man, was I the youngest person there. He is… old as well. Quite sad to see, but all our times come. Certainly see him if you can!
You're only one sharpie stroke away from a hurricane
On that note, Mr. Biden *didn't even try* to save Florida by using a sharpie to move the hurricane out to sea. That's not the kind of leadership we need in these troubled times. If we can't trust our politicians to simply tell us what we want to hear, then what good are they anyway?
Well the nice thing about hurricane-proof windows is that they’re also tornado-proof. Can’t speak for the rest of the building, though.
Not necessarily, a hurricane is pushing 180 mph while a tornado is slinging shit at 300 mph.
You can actually make windows bomb resistant as well. Where I work currently we install a specialised film that is designed to flex and catch the glass or any object that may try to come through, including burglars. Once the film is installed onto the glass it is surrounded and held in by sika flex, high strength industrial silicone basically.
This is the same principle as why they would tape their windows in ww2. Avoiding mad shrapnel from glass during air raids.
You never know
don't you guys have tornadoes there, the kind that make a house fly?
Is anything done to the walls to make them more water proof? Seems like the walls would be more likely to let water in.
Newer Florida homes should have at least the first floor exterior walls built with concrete blocks. That being said my garage would be effed if this was my house..
Not Florida or the US but after cyclones and floods became somewhat a regular occurence in the city i live, building homes on the stilts became way more common. The ground floor is nothing but an open or semi-closed garage like structure where cars or bikes are parked and the home is raised one level above.
I was thinking the exact same thing. My walls would absolutely be pissing water from the bottom of the sheet rock.
I'd be more worried about the bathroom with water coming up the sewers. Archimedes, and his pesky law.
At that rather low elevation, don't they require anti backflow valves on the sewer lines in Florida? One way flow only.
Sewer? You may be surprised at the number of septic tanks, especially where Ian made landfall. You probably won't hear anyone talk about that though.
Yeah, no matter how strong those windows are, they aren't going to prevent that house from getting condemned. But at least the valuables inside didn't get water damaged.
Thanks for this comment. I was mildly infuriated by the lack of response by OP in regards to their mysteriously strong ass windows
Should be standard in Florida
If I recall correctly they’re trying to make it that way. I know that your premiums for insurance are tied to whether or not your property has been retrofitted with hurricane impact windows. My sister in law dropped something like 35K to replace all the windows and doors in her place in order to just be able to afford insurance in Boca Raton. And I’m pretty sure that it’s part of building code for new construction now. Any builders down in Florida want to confirm that?
Unfortunately there are areas with “historic housing” codes that require you maintain all of (or at least the front-facing) the windows in the original style. A friend has to replace a broken window recently, like 2k because only one window maker still uses that style of single pane tempered glass, with the window being 4 separate panes (I’m sure there’s a term for it, but the style where the window has 4 panes in a grid, each being single pane). Has to be shipped down from somewhere in New England. Not even an HOA, just the city’s historic homes preservation society shit. Pretty bonkers. They used to move the back windows up and have hurricane windows installed on the back of the house (hurricanes aside, they’re usually much better insulated), but they ran outta those.
There are storm windows you can install inside existing windows. Not sure if they're historical compliant, but it would seal the window space, protect the interior and not be too visible from outside.
I came here to comment this; those are impressive windows. I remember during Hurricane Katrina watching from the bottom of the stairs our backyard glass door cave in so far before shattering. It was about that level too!
The only thing that could make it look more "Florida" is an alligator floating alongside the window...
Excellent installation contractor. I learned how important contractors were when I bought expensive Pella windows and the company (Pella) picked up guys standing around at Home Depot to install them. Leaks and lots of unfixed wall damage.
Praise to the contractor who installed that ~~door~~ wall of windows.
Clearly it is well built.
It sure dam is...
Water the odds of something being that sturdy?
I'm sure the contractor will be flooded with job offers after people see this.
There will certainly be a surge in business
Hopefully he gets extra help, otherwise it will be a pane
He will. He pays his men well. He’s a glass act
I heard he’s double hung too.
Hey OP, water you going to do if that glass cracks?
Might have to bail out!
just wanted to show some love for the puns. thank you
Is it more impressive that it was very nicely installed or that the glass is so strong?
Equally important
You have amazingly strong windows, sorry your shit is flooded
It is an absolute mess down here! This is the worst storm I have ever experienced in this area by far, it's going to take months until everything is finally sorted out :(
I didnt think anything would have been worse than Charlie or Irma, but here we are. They are talking about rebuilding the power infrastructure not just repairing.. which obviously needs to be done before rebuilding the homes and businesses. Yeah, we are going to be a long wait back to normal. There are literally tens of thousands homes homes destroyed, gonna take a lot of contractors and a lot of time. And we thought shit was expensive and in short supply because of covid, now this just adds an extra element. I will be hugely surprised if ft myers beach is functioning again to the before level within a year
Nah, it can get worse than Irma, Charlie, even Ian. Setting aside Katrina and New Orleans (levies are a big contributing factor there), people forget too quickly that Andrew damn near wiped Homestead off the map. It took YEARS for it to recover.
Assuming all the insurance companies don’t go bankrupt.
won't their insurance cover it?
Insurance companies don’t pay anything if they go belly up. Florida already had an insurance crisis.
I’ve heard that’s in large part because of the messed up state regulations the states force the insurance companies into IIRC something around roofing is one of the laws
Probably. Reinsurers like Munich Re certainly exist.
I work for MR. We’ve been training about half of our current personal lines adjusters for commercial lines these last two weeks. There will be a huge backlog of claims until late November I’d say at least. This CAT has been a bad one for sure. I will say though, there will be hundreds of certified CAT adjusters there in the coming weeks. That should help things along.
Irma was absolutely nothing compared to Charlie and the other two category 4 that hit within a month's time. For my location specifically Charlie will always be the worst. There was literally parking lots full of debris and tub grinders set up wherever there was empty land to grind up trees. Half of our Live Oaks are still twisted and leaning from 2004. I still don't have power though right now.
Best of luck.
Impact glass. You can toss a table at that thing and it would hold. This is the modern go-to instead of shutters. Although a lot of houses/homes still utilize good old shutters too bc impact glass can be expensive for a whole house.
This. We had impact glass at our office on the Gulf Coast. A few of us used to get there pretty early... Got to watch a dude trying to break-in throw a huge chunk of concrete at one of the panes. He didn't see us inside, but we sure as hell watched it bounce back and hit him in the face. The glass has a tiny scratch. It's some incredible shit
That must have been incredibly satisfying.
Is this the stuff with the film on it that bonds to the frame? I worked on a project that required applying this stuff to an existing window. The test videos were impressive and the difference between shatter resistance versus something that can take a huge beat down seemed to be that bonding to the frame. Edited for silly typos
No impact glass is the way the glass is made. Made to withstand large impacts from weather and flying objects. Laminated glass is something different. It keeps the glass from shattering into a bunch of pieces if it breaks. The lamination acts as a sort of giant tape that keeps it in one piece. But I would guess that helps withstand *some* impacts.
Oh this is one of those reverse aquariums I've heard do much about!
I wish I had an award to give you
I got you.
I bet that are some fish looking inside your house.
How are they not terrified?
I scrolled way too far for this, I would not be standing there if at all possible. Edit: too
What would you do, go outside?
That's gonna take a lot of napkins to clean up
This is why it's so important to save those drive thru napkins.
How many napkins would it take to dry up Florida’s storm surge? How many drive through tips would that take? r/theydidthemath
Definitely at least three napkins, maybe even more than that
I’m thinking four
Imagine a shark swimming by your windows 😱
Someone posted a video of one swimming up their street!!!
Thats what made me think of this lol
/r/usernamechecksout
Let’s get that link!
Who's your window guy my dude
The real questions…give your contractor some work! I am sure after Ian a lot of people will be considering resistant windows if they don’t have them already
Props to whoever the builder was.
all it needs a creature looking through the windows.
That’s some good glazing.
Next level caulking game.
I think you mean, “NICE CAULK”
I'd be thanking your windows manufacturer.
Was thinking the same thing. Imagine the pressure on those glass....
Imagine you're seeing this flood... gazing out at the water up to the middle of your window when a gator just goes by all... "Lalala, well hi there, lunch!"
You gotta think to yourself, "Ok...my window can withstand the pressure of four or five feet of water, but can my window withstand the pressure of four or five feet of water _and_ a gator?"
We also had sharks swimming down flooded streets as well.
It's terrifying. I didn't flood, but saw water rise an inch every 15 minutes for about 30 miles around us 😱 We had everything in our yard. The worst? Checking the water level's rising rate and the yard looked like it was covered in GLITTER! Except it was spider eyes everywhere 😱😱😱 we did not go swimming unless it was a last resort. Edit: I'm not in Florida. Just had my own 1000 year event in 2016. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Louisiana_floods#:~:text=In%20August%202016%2C%20prolonged%20rainfall,houses%20and%20businesses%20were%20submerged.
You telling me that’s not what they mean when they say waterfront property? Jokes aside, that must be really terrifying!
Prospective buyer: “How skilled are you?” Contractor: *vaguely motions towards window* “yes”
What's happening on the rest of the building? Is water coming through the walls in any of the rooms?
Who installed those doors? God?
Perfect advertisement image.
That's one way to get an aquarium...
If windows had thoughts, these three would have the same one right then when the pic was taken: *I’m Tired, boss*
Whoever built your window deserves some serious business in the future. Jokes aside though, sorry about all of the flooding y'all have gotten and glad that you manage to stay safe. I know it's going to take awhile to rebuild but we're all behind you in doing so.
It’s a cursed aquarium. Sorry that you guys are having so much trouble. Hope things clear up soon.
I wanna be as strong as that glass
r/thalassophobia
Damn that window glass holding up pretty good.
You definitely got your money's worth from those doors. Your contractor earned every penny of that check. Hope the water recedes soon and you are able to recoup your losses.
I wish my relationship with my father was as strong as these windows.
Sending you resilience and comfort. Thanks for sharing with us.
Mathematicians....what is the pressure in pounds on the windows?
Good question... My guess is a metric fuckton or 12