Unfortunately, waiting is the worst thing you could do.  When the fog is just water, it can be easily removed and the window repaired.  But once that moisture begins to stain the the interior layers of the glass, your options are limited.  Moisture damage is a tricky issue anywhere in the home, and as with other moisture problems, window damage must be handled immediately.  If you wouldn’t let water stand on your family room floor for months, why tolerate it in your windows?

When you call a qualified residential window repair specialist as soon as you notice the seal failure, your window can be repaired, while waiting has so many unintended consequences.  Moisture destroys glass (or just about anything) over time when it never gets a chance to dry out.  It not only stains the window, but eventually begins to etch and erode the glass – you may as well have scrubbed the interior of the glass with a brick.  At that point the only solution is to take what was a perfectly good insulated window to further decay in a landfill.

We can’t beg people enough to contact a professional and save their windows!  It saves you money, preserves the insulating quality of the windows and keeps your glass in your windows and out of a landfill.   And it is always FREE to contact us and ask what Deals can do for your foggy windows.

The possibility to save business owners from this plight is what makes Deal Glass Services so thrilled to be providing commercial glass repair to Charlotte and Lancaster area proprietors.   Commercial window and storefront repair can save these businesses from all the issues that make replacement such a painful procedure – including the cost.  After considering the options when faced with fogged commercial glass, repair makes the replacement process seem archaic.

Thermopane repair can be performed in half the time and completely from the inside -  no scaffolding, no crane, no eyesore.  The procedure is largely the same as that used for residential window repair.   The technician drills two small holes in the window and introduces a cleaning agent that eliminates the moisture and any detritus that has made it’s way into the area between the layers of glass.  Once this product is vacuumed out, the technician installs two small valves: a sieve valve and a traditional one way valve.  Not only does this fix the problem, it prevents the issue from recurring and saves a large, expensive piece of glass from a landfill.

With this option now available to Charlotte area property owners, we hope this can help some of those businesses who are struggling to survive, by cutting the cost of dealing with fogged commercial storefronts.  If you are interested in this service, you can contact us in Charlotte/Kannapolis, NC at (704).933.9341 or in Lancaster, SC (803).286.7611 to find out more about how commercial window repair can help your business save without cutting corners.

Deals Glass Services can now provide residential window repair as well as replacement of just the glass window pane.  Contact us as soon as you notice the ruptured seal and the telltale “perma-fog”, and we can actually remove the air and moisture from between the two glass panels and give you a good as new appearance.   When you repair  or replace the foggy glass rather than replacing the entire window unit, you save yourself time, money and the hassle of having a hole in your home.

Deals has a new commercial explaining the benefits of repairing or replacing just the fogged glass window pane.

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You can contact us online or by phone to set up an appointment for Deals to come to your home and clear up your foggy windows.

Since the foggy window repair process is a fairly new idea, many people facing thermopane seal failure don’t even consider this solution.  At a price of about $90 it is the most cost effective, can be completed in about an hour and since we aren’t disposing of the old glass, it’s also the most environmentally friendly method.   But if you wait too long  after the seal fails, the moisture will permanently stain the inside of the glass giving it an opaque or mottled look – then the foggy appearance cannot be repaired.

Even if the glass has been permanently fogged you can replace the glass in the window at a cost of about $150 – $170.  It it cheaper and easier than full window replacement – but we still have to create waste, making it not nearly as green as repair.  If you have a qualified glass technician come look at the damage as soon as you notice the fog, this can be avoided.

For most people with vinyl windows there is no need to replace the entire window, which not only costs about $300 but also can be quite hassle to the homeowner.  As long as your windows were installed after 1975 and you don’t have any serious problems with them then the expense of this project can be prohibitive.

Check out our site for more info about repair or replacement of fogged resiential window glass in the Charlotte, NC area or to get an online quote.

Before Picture - Foggy Window

If you are at home, looking out at the world through a fogged or leaky window, you could be gazing through a $1,500 tax credit for 2009.

The new stimulus package signed by the president, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, offers tax credits for making your home more energy efficient.  That generally means buying more high efficiency heating and cooling systems and appliances, or installing new energy efficient windows and doors, any of which is usually a high cost and long running project.  But this credit also applies to replacing the glass panes in your existing fogged or leaky windows.

The new package makes it more financially beneficial than ever for homeowners to fix residential windows.  The percent of total cost credited has gone up from 10% offered in 2007 to 30% for 2009, with the $200 dollar cap for windows removed.  This means window glass replacement is now included in the $1,500 total cap per homeowner for improvements.

After Replacement - Clear Glass

Replacing the just the glass in your vinyl windows is much easier on the budget, and the homeowner, than replacing the windows themselves. And can sometimes offer the same amount of savings on monthly energy bills.  Rather than ripping the siding off the exterior and creating a hole in your home,  you could have the glass panels replaced, in a relatively painless procedure.  Once windows are measured, glass is ordered and received in about 3-5 days, then installed by a trained glass technician in just a few hours.  You can go from estimate to efficiency within a week.

Deals Glass Services can provide residential glass replacement for foggy windows anywhere in the greater Charlotte metropolitan area.  Check our website for more detailed information about our Piedmont, North Carolina service area.