Does anybody know anything about Fabricating Debris Scratches? If you do any amount of window cleaning, you should really read up and study on this issue. In short, Fabricating Debris are microscopic peices of glass that embed themselves to the glass as it is passed through the tempering kiln. To prevent this problem, cleaning the glass before it is passed through the kiln is nessecary. The kiln and it's rollers must also be kept clean. It is nearly impossible to detect low quality glass with fabricating debris with the naked eye. When an unsuspecting window cleaner comes along to clean the window, and uses a scraper or razor, these peices of glass become dislodged and scratch the glass. This can result in thousands of dollars of defective glass, and although the WC'er is usually faulted with scratching the glass, it is the manufactorer's fault for supplying low quality tempered glass. If I have to use my razor to remove anything, I have a waiver signed that releases me from responsiblity of the scratched glass due to Fab. Debris. I havn't read anything on this forum that talked about Fab. Debris, so I wanted to make sure there was a post about it. To learn more about this issue and how to protect yourselves from liabitily, read the information at the links listed below.
http://www.iwca.org/tempglass/default.htm
www.stopscratchedglass.com
http://www.iwca.org/tempglass/default.htm
www.stopscratchedglass.com