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.

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.