For your home
Roxy Glass repairs and replaces glass in Bay Area homes: broken and cracked window panes, foggy double pane units, shower enclosures, mirrors, patio doors and glass railings. In most cases the glass is replaced and your existing frame stays exactly where it is.
Why people call us
Knowing which one you have tells you roughly how big the job is before you speak to anybody.
A cracked pane, a shattered window, a broken patio door. If the opening is exposed it needs securing first. If the pane is cracked but intact, it can usually be booked normally, but it will not stop spreading on its own.
Fog or haze between two panes is a failed sealed unit. It cannot be cleaned because the moisture is sealed inside the glass. The sealed unit is replaced and the window itself stays in place, which is a much smaller job than most people expect.
Shower enclosures, mirrors, railings and new windows. These are measured on site once the tiling or framing is finished, because glass is cut to the real opening rather than to the size on a drawing.
Everything we do for homes
Cracked or shattered glass replaced in your existing frame, usually without replacing the whole window.
Read about window glass repair
Fog, haze or streaks trapped between the panes means the sealed unit has failed. The glass unit is replaced, not the window.
Read about double pane glass replacement
New window units when the frame itself has failed, including retrofit installation into the existing opening.
Read about window replacement
Frameless, semi frameless and framed shower glass, measured and fitted to the opening you actually have.
Read about shower doors and enclosures
Sliding patio doors, French doors and bi-fold doors, including tempered glass replacement and rollers that no longer glide.
Read about glass doors and patio doors
Wall mirrors, vanity mirrors, mirrored closet doors and full mirror walls, cut to size and installed.
Read about mirrors and closet doors
Deck, balcony, stair and pool glass in tempered or laminated safety glass, built to guard rail requirements.
Read about glass railings and pool fences
Broken glass cleared and the opening secured now, with the permanent glass fitted once it is made.
Read about emergency board up
The work itself
Most home jobs are a glass repair rather than a full replacement, and the visit that decides which is a look at the opening you already have.
Bay Area homes in particular
Bay Area housing stock is unusually varied, and the glass problems follow the era the house was built in more closely than they follow the city it sits in.
Victorians, Edwardians, Craftsman bungalows and brown shingles across San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda mostly still have single pane glass in wood sash. There is no sealed unit to fail, so these do not fog. What they do is crack, and the putty and glazing beads perish with age. Matching original obscure and textured glass in these homes takes more care than a modern replacement.
Post war tract housing and mid century modern homes across the Peninsula and the South Bay were built with large glass areas and slim aluminum frames. Eichler homes in particular use floor to ceiling glass walls. Those large panes are expensive to replace, frequently need tempered safety glass by code, and are worth checking against current safety glazing requirements when they are replaced.
This is where fogged windows come from. Any home with double pane windows has sealed glass units, and every one of those units will eventually fail. Because they were all installed at the same time and see the same weather, they often start failing within a few years of each other, which is why one fogged window is usually followed by others.
Inland cities such as Walnut Creek, Pleasanton and Livermore see far bigger daily temperature swings than the shoreline cities, and that daily expansion and contraction is exactly what works an edge seal loose. Homes near the bay and the coast deal with salt air instead, which is harder on hardware and on the metal coatings behind mirrors.
Questions
Someone needs to give access to the room the glass is in, both for the measuring visit and for the installation. It does not have to be you. For rental property we can work with a tenant or a property manager, and we will confirm the access arrangement when the visit is booked rather than turning up and hoping.
Only for the part of the visit when the glass is actually being changed, which is usually short. On a job where the glass has to be made first, the opening is boarded so the property is closed and weatherproof during the days that fabrication takes.
Yes. Clearing the broken glass and taking it away is part of the job, along with the packaging the new glass arrives in. You should not be left with a bag of broken glass to deal with.
Yes, and it is common work across the Bay Area. Older wood sash windows are reglazed differently from modern vinyl or aluminum units, and matching obscure or textured glass in a period property takes more care. Tell us the age and style of the house when you call so we bring the right materials.
A single pane is a perfectly normal job. That said, if you have several windows with the same problem, having them all measured in one visit is more efficient for everyone and usually works out better for you than three separate call outs.
Next step
Send a photo and a rough measurement. We will tell you whether the glass alone can be replaced, whether safety glass is required in that opening, and what the timing looks like.
Estimates are free. Tell us what broke, send a photo if you have one, and we will tell you whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement before any work is booked.
Leave a message or use the estimate form and we will reply when we open.
