I have never, ever in my long (60 year) life ever tumbled against a window. The few collisions with walls or doors were always the result of horsing around. I agree that horsing around should not be a death sentence. I remember reading a vignette in Readers Digest (more than 40 years ago) about some secretaries in a New York high rise office building who were skittish about floor to ceiling windows in their offices.
To allay their concerns, a 200 pound construction engineer in a hardhat made a call. He removed his hat, took a running start at the window, hitting it squarely with his shoulder. He replaced his hat and departed. The complaints about the window stopped. That’s the kind of testing I like; it shows faith in your work.
“I have never, ever in my long (60 year) life ever tumbled against a window. The few collisions with walls or doors were always the result of horsing around.”
I have some sad news.....it’s the over 60 crowd that’s starts stumbling, losing their balance and falling for silly reasons. When it happens you feel like an idiot.
If it happens in a hotel room on the 10th floor near the window, you have to hope the window is going to hold up.
“To allay their concerns, a 200 pound construction engineer in a hardhat made a call. He removed his hat, took a running start at the window, hitting it squarely with his shoulder. He replaced his hat and departed. The complaints about the window stopped.”
There was a story about a while baack about someone who tried a similar demonstration with window bars, and fell to his death.
These windows should have been able to take this jolt against them. Were these windows the thin single/double pane windows you would find in a home? Something does not seem right in this story, that the windows should have broke that easily?