replacing double glazing

Mr-White

Mr-White

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came home last night to find the inside pane of glass broken, cracked from top to bottom and no clue how it happened. the window is about 45x95cm in size, the outside glass is still intacked just wondering how much it's likely to cost to get it replaced and could i just replace the one pane or does it come as a sealed unit?

MW
 
Call your Buildings Insurers - probably covered as accidental damage automatically. Best to say you broke it though rather than "I just noticed it was broken".

Ask what your excess is though (usually around £50 or so).
 
May be £50 from a glass merchant ( most are sealed unit and you replace the whole thing) , to get someone out and have them supply and fit is around £200 average

you could claim on house insurance but it is probably not worth it for a small amount as you will have to pay excess and it will put future premiums up

re prices , I haven't had one done for a while so these are my best guesses
 
Mr-White said:
came home last night to find the inside pane of glass broken, cracked from top to bottom and no clue how it happened. the window is about 45x95cm in size, the outside glass is still intacked just wondering how much it's likely to cost to get it replaced and could i just replace the one pane or does it come as a sealed unit?

MW
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Its a sealed unit.
 
i'm confused, i always thought they were selaed units but when i broke a double glazed window 10 years ago a neighbour who sells double glazing replaced the broken pane and charged me £12 :confused:

MW
 
Mr-White said:
i'm confused, i always thought they were selaed units but when i broke a double glazed window 10 years ago a neighbour who sells double glazing replaced the broken pane and charged me £12 :confused:

MW
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Double glazing comes as a sealed unit or youd get condensation inside the unit, this happens if your unit breaks down over time as well. You would have to get the whole unit replaced. If its a plastic window itll take 2 mins to swap it over but if its wood it could take a lot longer.

Thats only a small window, do you think you could fit the glass yourself?, the double glazed unit itself wouldn't cost much.
 
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Are the beads on the inside?, if so get a really sharp chisel or wallpaper scraper and see if you can carefully pry the bead off. If you can itll be easy to swap the unit yourself and the glass will cost nowhere near £200.
 
Mr-White said:
its plastic....but i dont fancy paying £200 for a window i never broke :(

MW
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the one I had done was in my last house and was wooden windows , you may find it a bit cheaper if plastic
 
Mark A said:
Are the beads on the inside?, if so get a really sharp chisel or wallpaper scraper and see if you can carefully pry the bead off. If you can itll be easy to swap the unit yourself and the glass will cost nowhere near £200.
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correct, the glass is the cheap part of the job
 
im waiting for a phone call back with a quote, as for the beading im not sure.

so its the labour that puts the price up ?

MW
 
Unless its toughened, If the glass is less than 800mm from the floor it needs to be toughened, just incase someone falls into it. Thats bumps the price and the waiting time up a bit but still pretty cheap for that size unit.
 
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im waiting for a phone call back with a quote, as for the beading im not sure.

so its the labour that puts the price up ?

MW
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In this case yes as the glass is very small so will be cheap but a guy will have to come and look at the job to measure. Then a fitter will have to come and fit the glass, so your paying for a few visits and their time etc. If you could get the glass out yourself then you could measure the unit thats in and get one made for you to then fit yourself.
 
Just have a go at getting a bead out, they're easy enough to knock back in. Then you'll know if you can do it, its just a case of taking old beads out swapping glass over and putting beads back in. No special tools needed or anything and no sealing to do as it should have rubber gaskets. If you go to small glass manufacturers I'm sure they'll knock you a unit up on the cheap for cash.
 
Measure thickness of the unit, they will be different thicknesses 28mm 24mm or 20mm are the most common.

Are glazing beads on the inside or the outside, if they are on the outside there maybe a gasket you'll have to remove from inside or they may be glazed on double sided tape, if it on tape these are a bit more awkward to do, let me know and i'll tell you how to do them.

If the window is a side opener then take note the where the packers have been positioned they need to go back in the same place.

If you are in Herts there is a place we get our units from in St Albans i aint got the number here but i can get it tommorrow from work.

Glass will be about £45/meter 2 so not much more than £30
 
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My Brother fits DG for a living
he says if its internal beading
remove it from the bottom then the right then then left then the top

re fitting it
TOp 1st then left then right
then the bottom


and he says if you would have been a bit near he would have done it for yer for the price of the glass and a cost of a beer :D
 
still not fixed, leaving it in the hands of my flatmate as her friends getting it sorted. plus i still think she done it :(

MW
 
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