Window glass repair

[couponvan]

This is only a semi DIY, but it saved us about $390. DS and DH broke a single pane casement window. There was also another single pane window with a crack in it at the back of the garage.  We called out a mobile glass repair guy for an estimate-$250 per window!! We hauled the smaller window to a glass shop (four screws and a leftover piece of plywood covered the hole). $40 is what they charged to replace the glass. Next week we brought the larger window. $70 is what they charged. So $390 was what we saved for our effort to take out the windows and drive them to the shop. Well worth our time and effort. We watched you tube videos to figure out how to remove the 1970's casement window.

Purists would say we should have cut and replaced the glass ourselves, but I was worried about damaging the frame (and then having 11 more casements to replace because we broke one very old window.

[lthenderson]

Glass cutting tools and large panes of glass for stock material aren't in everybody's garage and are pretty expensive so I'm guessing, the route you took is cheaper than the other way. It's also the route I take when fixing broken windows.

[paddedhat]

Don't forget that you can do the same with insulated (double pane)units also. Some glass shops are set up to manufacture insulated replacement units. Every so often I save a friend or relative from dropping huge coin on replacement windows. They end up with a handful of fogged panes and decide to call a window replacement outfit. The slimy salesperson shows up, lies their ass off, and nearly convinces the victim that dropping $10-15K is the only solution. Instead, they contact a regional glass business I recommend, and they can either take the sashes in for repair, or have a tech. come out and do the work. All for a small fraction of the cost of a new window.