Project details
- Commercial Glass Restoration
- November 2019
- 1134 W. Granville, Chicago, IL
- commercial glass restoration
- 4
- 14 days
- Very Difficult - Swingstage work and Overhead lighting from sun.
Commercial Glass Restoration - High Rise Bldg - Chicago, IL
After hearing this numerous times, we ended up inventing the best tempered glass scratch polishing kit in the world!
The commercial glass restoration industry changed in 2005 after we revolutionized it! Read a typical conversation we have had once a contractor realizes he needs scratched glass renewed. It goes something like this.
Contractor : Hi, my name is _________ with ________ Builders. I’m heading up a construction project in ____________. We’ve just discovered quite a few large scratched glass windows and doors. Is that something your company can bring back to scratch free? We just noticed them after the window washers cleaned all the glass.
Me : Did you notice if all the scratched glass panels are tempered?
Contractor : Yes, did I call you already? How did you know we needed deep glass scratch repairs in tempered windows?
Me : No! Tell me if this describes your scratched glass. Lots of light scratches with medium to heavy scratches in between. Looks like spider webs when the sun hits it?
Contractor : Yes, exactly. Some of them are pretty bad though. We’ll probably have to replace those, right?
Me : Probably not. Why don’t we do a demo on one of the ones you think the glass scratches are way too numerous and deep.
This was almost the exact discussion we had when we were first contacted regarding all the scratched glass at the Clarovista project in Chicago, IL. We showed them that tempered glass on their project was an excellent candidate for our commercial glass restoration team.
How Did My Tempered Glass Get Scratched?
Is tempered glass softer than annealed glass?
Is that why it scratches so easily?
This is actually the question that people often ask after they discover almost all of the tempered glass on their construction project is scratched.
Honestly, the answer to the deep scratched glass culprit isn’t always so simple. We have seen one construction project where one of the window washers decided to razor scrape all his windows DRY, never wetting the glass! Would that cause glass scratches everywhere? Of course, and we removed all glass scratches from 300 tempered windows and doors on that job!
But other times, the window washers may do everything to the best of their knowledge. However, razor scraping tempered glass during construction cleanup isn’t a great idea, ever.
We’re not detectives and we can never be 100% sure where the glass scratches actually came from or who is to blame.
What we do know is this. If you have scratched tempered glass, we can restore that glass by resurfacing it and remove all the scratches – without haze, swirls, or distortion!
Can Scratched Glass Be Saved from the Landfill?
“If you are looking for me to tell you exactly where the glass scratches came from, I can tell you I don’t have those answers. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Glass restoration skills I have acquired over a very long career. Scratched glass repair skills that make me a ray of hope for people with scratched glass problems like you. If you contact us now that’ll be the beginning of the end of your glass scratch nightmare.”
The process of commercial glass restoration isn’t complicated. It’s all about removing the layer of scratched glass and polishing the glass back to flawless clarity. The trick is to be consistent, uniform and fast. If you’re not consistent and uniform when repairing scratched glass, your windows and doors will have swirls, haze, or distortion, or possibly all three. Haze and swirls can easily be removed from resurfaced glass. However, distortion is another story altogether. Very rarely can distorted glass ever look perfect again. It all comes down to training and skills.
Our suggestion to you is this. Don’t let your scratched glass problems go from bad to worse. Don’t let someone experiment with your scratched glass at your construction project. Save time, money and stress. We have the glass scratch removal skills and the ability to refurbish the worst scratched windows. Give us a call. Tell us about your project. We guarantee we can come up with a solution to your deep scratched glass nightmare. A fast and affordable solution, wherever the project might be.
Forget the rest – Go with the best! We’ve been unscratching deep scratches in tempered glass on construction projects since 2005. For Scratched Glass Renovation Experts – Call Unscratch the Surface! For best price quote, Click to Call 805-295-9020