Glass and Window Repair in Green Island, Dunedin

Green Island is postwar housing almost throughout, built between the 1950s and the 1980s on flat and gently sloping ground. Which means the joinery here is mostly single glazed aluminium with no thermal break at all, now somewhere between forty and seventy years old. It is cold, it whistles, and it streams with water on a frosty morning.

Old aluminium: repair or replace

The first question on a house like this is whether the frames are worth keeping. If the extrusion is straight and the corner joints are tight, they are. Re rubbering, new stays and a retrofit gets you most of the way for around half the cost of new joinery.

If the corners have opened, the powder coat is chalking through and the sashes have dropped, replacement is the better spend. We price both on the same quote so you can see the difference rather than take our word for it.

Sliding windows and worn rollers

The suites used through this era lean heavily on sliding sashes. After forty years the rollers have flat spotted, the track has a groove worn into it, and the sash will not latch because it has dropped.

Diagnose in order: rollers, then track wear, then grit. Replacing rollers on a badly grooved track wastes the new rollers, which is why we check both before quoting a figure.

Whole house pricing on a flat section

Green Island houses tend to have straightforward access and a reasonable window count, which is the combination that prices best. Most Dunedin whole house retrofits land between $10,000 and $24,000, and jobs out here usually sit toward the lower half of that.

Doing the lot at once always costs less per window than doing two rooms at a time. If the budget will not stretch, we stage by elevation rather than by room.

What we get called out for in Green Island

• Window Repair in Green Island, diagnosed before anything is quoted, not after.
• Glass Repair in Green Island, common sizes measured and glazed in 24 to 48 hours.
• Window Seal and Gasket Replacement in Green Island, glazing wedge and weather seal replaced in place.
• Window Draught Proofing in Green Island, brush pile seals routed into timber sashes, invisible when shut.
• Leaking Window Repair in Green Island, water tested bottom up until the leak shows itself.

Green Island sits on the same run as Caversham, Wakari and Mosgiel, so we are usually in the area anyway.