Glass and Window Repair in Hataitai, Wellington

Hataitai is bungalow country on a steep hillside. The houses step up the slope in tight rows, most of them built between the wars in the Californian bungalow style, with wide casement and double hung sashes and generous timber sections. It is good joinery, worth keeping, and almost all of it is still single glazed.

Bungalow sashes take retrofitting well

Bungalow joinery has wider rails and heavier sections than the villa work of twenty years earlier. That is an advantage when you are machining a rebate for a double glazed unit, because there is more timber to work with and the sash carries the extra weight better.

We machine the rebate, fit a bead matched to the original profile, and adjust cords or hardware for the load. The result reads as original from the street.

Steep sections change the price

Hataitai streets are steep and a good number of houses are reached by steps instead of a drive. Double glazed units are heavy, and carrying a house lot of them up forty steps is real labour that has to be in the quote and not discovered on the day.

We look at access before pricing and tell you what it means. Where a house lot of sashes is coming out for bench work we plan a single carry rather than repeated trips.

Sun, shade and which rooms to do first

Hillside suburbs have a north facing side that gets sun most of the day and a south facing side that gets very little. Condensation, mould and cold complaints cluster heavily on the shaded side.

If the budget will not cover the whole house at once, we stage it by elevation instead of by room. South and west first, north last. That puts the money where the temperature difference is.

What we get called out for in Hataitai

• Window Repair in Hataitai, diagnosed before anything is quoted, not after.
• Glass Repair in Hataitai, common sizes measured and glazed in 24 to 48 hours.
• Window Frame Repair in Hataitai, aluminium, timber and uPVC frames repaired in place.
• Ranch Slider Repair in Hataitai, rollers, tracks, guides and locks replaced.
• Window Installation in Hataitai, joinery ordered to your site wind zone, not a standard spec.

Hataitai sits on the same run as Mount Victoria, Miramar and Kilbirnie, so we are usually in the area anyway.