Glass and Window Repair in Kilbirnie, Wellington

Kilbirnie sits on low flat land between two coastlines, which makes it one of the windiest parts of the city despite having no hills of its own. Wind funnels across the isthmus with nothing in the way. Add an arterial road grid carrying traffic to the airport and the eastern suburbs, and you get a suburb where noise and wind driven rain are the two recurring themes.

Wind across the flat

People assume the hill suburbs get the worst of it. On the Kilbirnie flat the wind runs unobstructed from the harbour to Lyall Bay, and there is nothing to break it up. Gates, trampolines and outdoor furniture move, and that is what puts most of the glass through.

It also drives rain hard at north and south facing joinery. Perished weather seals that would be a minor draught elsewhere become an actual leak here, and re rubbering is often the whole fix.

Road noise and bedroom glazing

Kilbirnie's arterials carry a lot of traffic, including heavy vehicles heading to the airport and the eastern suburbs. Bedrooms fronting those roads are the most common acoustic glazing job we do here.

Laminated glass on the outer pane makes far more difference than simply going to double glazing. We usually recommend doing the street facing rooms only, which keeps the spend where it changes something.

Shopfronts and commercial frontages

The retail strip means regular commercial glazing work: impact damage, break ins, and failed sealed units in older aluminium shopfronts. Frontage glazing is a walk into position under NZS 4223, so it goes back as toughened or laminated.

We board or temporarily glaze before opening time and work outside trading hours where the business cannot afford to close.

What we get called out for in Kilbirnie

• Window Repair in Kilbirnie, diagnosed before anything is quoted, not after.
• Glass Repair in Kilbirnie, common sizes measured and glazed in 24 to 48 hours.
• Shopfront Glass Repair in Kilbirnie, boarded or temporarily glazed before opening time.
• Insurance Glass Repair in Kilbirnie, photos and written scope provided at the first visit.
• Glass Splashbacks in Kilbirnie, toughened and colour backed to any paint colour.

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