Anyone know anything about stained glass repairs ?
Our front door has half pane of stained glass that is bowing and is loose it’s been there best part of 80 years !
Have someone coming to quote on Saturday, are we going to be shocked at costs ? ( London tax )

Thanks in advance

…is this a subject that nobody knows anything about on Singletrack ?

Maybe get more than one quote?

Our opinion isn’t going to matter to a tradesman.

Colleague’s wife does stained glass repairs but he’s on leave so can’t ask. Helpful eh? I think you’d be looking at a good 2 days to do it properly so £400-£500.

We bought a 1930s door off Ebay with a lovely art deco-esque panel that had already been restored for £120. Specialist courier was another £100 and had to pay to get it installed as well though

A mate who lives round the corner from me had it done, about £120 ish including replacing a small cracked element and adding two horizontal brass bars, wired in as bracing. The panel was removed and taken away for fettling, then brought back and reinstalled. Doncaster, not London rates, about 5 years ago.

Making houses and rooms within them more airtight hasn’t helped these panels, when the door is closed quickly, if these is slack in the cames, the air pressure can cause bowing as it is the weakest link. You can solve that by adding a secondary glaze of plain(toughened) on one side.

Whereabouts in London? (Big place)?

@midlifecrashes – I had thought about doing that with ours but would that not cause condensation problems? Or do you have it made with some form of vent holes?

Tiger6791 – Member
Whereabouts in London? (Big place)?

North London – Southgate

Might be a bit far (Staines) but these guys did our Victorian door

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We got expensive custom made doubled glazed windows put in recently, some with a 3rd leaded layer in the middle. Cost almost a grand per piece, IIRC the extra layer of leaded light was about £250 per piece, these were made from scratch to our own designs. This was for putting into stone archways (converted church) and all custom made and fitted etc so about as expensive as it gets!

Encapsulating it in a doubled glazed unit would solve any condensation problems. Might be worth an added layer of glass for security too.

Remove the stained glass, tidy up the rebate, get the stained glass encased between two sheets of glass and re-fit it as a DG unit.

Edit: SNAP! Same advice as above.

Try
Vyse Glass

I went to school with the owner.