Residential glass
This is the service for one broken French door pane
French doors fail one pane at a time, which is usually good news. Roxy Glass replaces the individual glass panel in a French door with tempered safety glass, including divided light doors where the glazing bars mean several small panes rather than one large one. Where the door has a sealed double pane unit, the unit is replaced rather than the door.
Free estimates, no obligation. Request a free french doors estimate.
If any of the following describes what you are looking at, this is the service that handles it.
This page covers one kind of work within Glass Doors and Patio Doors. If you are not sure which you need, start there.
The thing that makes French doors expensive to build is the thing that makes them cheap to repair. Understanding that is worth money when you come to get it quoted.
In a true divided light door, every pane sits in its own rebate with its own bead. A break in one is contained by the glazing bars around it, so the damage stops where the bar is and the neighboring panes stay sound.
Fog means a sealed unit has lost its seal, which only applies to double pane doors. The door is still secure and still works, so there is no urgency. The unit is swapped and the door stays where it is.
When a pair of doors no longer meet in the middle, the hinges have usually sagged under the weight of the glass. That is adjustment rather than glazing, and replacing glass will not change it.
The work itself
These are the stages the job actually runs through, from the first look at the opening to the finished glass.
What happens next
Call the line for your area or send the estimate form. A photo of the damage and a rough measurement lets us tell you straight away whether it is a glass only repair or a full replacement.
Glass is cut to the opening, not to a catalog size, so the measurement has to be exact. For most jobs we measure on site. For a simple pane you can measure it yourself and we will tell you how.
The estimate is free and it sets out the glass type, the thickness, whether safety glazing is required and what the work involves. Nothing is ordered until you approve it.
Standard glass is usually cut at our Newark shop. Sealed double pane units, tempered glass and made to order shapes are fabricated to your measurements, which is what sets the lead time.
We fit the glass, check that it seals and operates properly, and take the old glass and packaging away with us.
Cost
Roxy Glass does not publish a fixed price for this work, because the price depends on the opening in front of us. Estimates are free, so the fastest way to get a real number is to send the measurements and a photo, or to have us come and measure.
Where we do this work
This work is carried out from our Newark shop across Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Francisco and southern Marin County.
Santa Clara County from San Jose out to Los Gatos and Cupertino.
San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Milpitas.
San Mateo County and the northern Santa Clara Valley.
Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Atherton, Redwood City, San Carlos, Belmont, Foster City, Burlingame, Millbrae, San Bruno.
The Tri City area, the Hayward and Oakland corridor and the shoreline cities.
Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Alameda, Richmond.
Inland Alameda County and central Contra Costa County.
Walnut Creek, Pleasanton, Dublin, Livermore, Sunol, San Ramon, Danville, Alamo, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Pleasant Hill, Concord, Martinez.
San Francisco, northern San Mateo County and southern Marin County.
San Francisco, South San Francisco, Daly City, San Rafael, Mill Valley, Larkspur, Corte Madera, San Anselmo, Tiburon.
Send your details on the free estimate form and the team that covers your address will answer. You can also call the Newark shop on (510) 400-7788, which is where every Bay Area job is dispatched from.
Questions
No, and you should be careful of anyone who tells you otherwise. A French door is glazed pane by pane, so a single broken light is replaced on its own and the rest of the door is untouched. This is the least expensive door glass repair there is. A whole new door is only the right answer when the door itself is rotten, bowed, or so far out of square that it no longer closes.
A divided light door has the glass area split into several smaller panes by glazing bars. True divided lights are individually glazed, so each broken pane is a separate small piece of glass. It costs more per door than a single large pane would, but it also means a cricket ball through one corner is a small repair rather than a large one. Many modern doors instead have a single sealed unit with bars stuck to the surface to imitate the look, which changes the repair completely.
Run a finger along the bar on both sides of the glass at the same point. If you can feel a bar on the inside and the outside and the glass is clearly recessed between them, the lights are individually glazed. If the bar is only on the surface, or you can feel it on one face and the other side is flat, it is an applied bar over one sealed unit. In that case a single break means the whole unit is replaced, bars and all.
Yes. Glass in a door, and glass next to a door within a certain distance of the floor, has to be safety glazing under building code, and in practice that means tempered. It is not optional and it is not a sales upsell. Tempered glass is heat treated after cutting and cannot be trimmed afterwards, so every pane is made to the measured size, which is why there is a short lead time rather than a same day fix.
Considerably, yes. Most of the cost of a small pane is the visit rather than the glass. Measuring and fitting four small lights in one appointment costs far less than four separate appointments, so it is always worth walking the door and the adjacent sidelights and telling us every pane that needs doing when you first call.
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
Shattered slider panels, fogged patio door units, and doors that have become too heavy to move.
Read about sliding glass doors
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
Next step
Tell us how many panes are affected and send a photo of the whole door. If you can, feel whether the glazing bars are on both faces of the glass and say so, because that single detail decides the whole repair.
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.
