Glass repair & glazing in Sandy Bay.

Heritage windows and the cold.

Plenty of Sandy Bay’s older homes, particularly the stately places along the waterfront and the streets behind it, are heritage homes with original timber sashes that have to stay. Single glass in those sashes leaks heat all through a Hobart winter and runs with condensation on frosty mornings facing the Derwent. We retrofit slim double-glazed units into the existing sashes, or fit discreet secondary glazing, so the streetscape and the City of Hobart heritage requirements stay intact while the house finally holds its warmth. See our double glazing service for how that works.

A heavy rental belt.

With the University of Tasmania Sandy Bay campus close by, a big slice of the suburb is rentals and student housing. That means a steady run of broken-window and break-in glass repairs where the priority is securing the property fast for the agent and tenant. Our emergency glass repair covers same-day board-ups, and we deal with managing agents directly on the paperwork.

Renovation glass.

Sandy Bay sees a lot of bathroom and kitchen renovations as older homes are updated. That brings frameless shower screens, coloured glass splashbacks and cut-to-size mirrors, all toughened Grade A safety glass and templated to walls that, in a century-old home, are rarely square.

Typical Sandy Bay jobs.

• Heritage timber-sash double-glazing retrofit, around $1,100 per window
• Break-in board-up and toughened replacement on a student rental
• Frameless shower screen for a waterfront-home ensuite renovation
• Replacement of black-edged bathroom mirrors in older homes
• Coloured glass splashback for a hill-top kitchen renovation