Window and Glass Repair in Brooklyn, Wellington

Brooklyn is best known for the wind turbine on the hill above it, which is there for a reason. This is one of the most consistently wind exposed residential areas in the country, sitting on the ridge that takes the full southerly off Cook Strait. Every job here is a wind job, whether the customer thinks of it that way or not.

The southerly is the design case

Northerlies are more frequent, but the southerly is what does the damage in Brooklyn. It comes off open water with nothing in the way, carrying rain horizontally at pressure.

That is a different test to vertical rain. Water arrives at the face of the window travelling sideways and finds every path a calmer climate would never expose. It is why windows here leak in one particular wind direction and are perfectly dry the rest of the year.

Weather facing elevations rot first

On a Brooklyn villa the south and west elevations are usually a decade ahead of the north in terms of wear. Paint film breaks down faster, the sills take water and hold it, and rot starts at the sill nose.

We scarf in new timber and, importantly, recut the drip groove under the sill if it has been painted solid. That groove is what stops water tracking back under the sill, and painting it closed is one of the most common causes of a repair that keeps coming back.

Retrofit double glazing on an exposed site

A double glazed unit on an exposed ridge is heavier than a standard one, because the wind pressure may require thicker glass. On a hundred year old sash that matters, since the original weights and cords were sized for a single 3mm pane.

We rebalance the weights, upgrade the cords and check the sash joints before glazing. Skipping that step is how a beautifully retrofitted window ends up dropping out of its balance six months later.

What we get called out for in Brooklyn

• Window Repair in Brooklyn, diagnosed before anything is quoted, not after.
• Glass Repair in Brooklyn, common sizes measured and glazed in 24 to 48 hours.
• Low E Glass Upgrade in Brooklyn, invisible metallic coating that reflects heat back inside.
• Acoustic Glazing in Brooklyn, laminated glass and uneven glass thicknesses, not just double glazing.
• Safety Glass Replacement in Brooklyn, toughened Grade A safety glass to NZS 4223.

Brooklyn sits on the same run as Karori, Kelburn and Island Bay, so we are usually in the area anyway.