Glaziers in Manchester

Glass, fitted properly, at any hour

Prime Fix 24/7 glaziers cover Manchester and Greater Manchester for everything from a brick through a shop window at 3am to a misted unit in a Didsbury bay that has annoyed you for a year. The emergency side of the business runs around the clock: an emergency glazier to make broken glass safe and replace it, and emergency boarding up when a door or window needs securing before it can be glazed. The planned side runs by appointment: double glazing repair for hinges, handles, locks and cracked panes, misted and failed units replaced into your existing frames, and shopfront and commercial glazing for businesses that need toughened or laminated glass fitted outside trading hours.

Every glazier on the team is trained, insured and works to the current safety glazing regulations, so glass in doors, low windows and bathrooms is toughened or laminated as the building regulations require. We measure, manufacture and fit; most sealed units are made within a week and emergency glass is cut on the van where a stock size will do. The price is agreed before the visit is booked, and daytime and out-of-hours rates are different, which is set out plainly on our pricing page.

If a window is broken now, our guide to a broken window at night covers the first ten minutes, and what to do after a break-in explains the order to do things in. Then call 07343 065023.

Manchester windows, and how they fail

The housing stock decides the job. The Victorian terraces of Chorlton, Levenshulme and Old Trafford still have original timber sashes with single glazing and, where they have been double glazed, slim units in rebates that were never designed for them. The 1930s semis of Didsbury, Sale and Heaton Moor have bay windows on steel or timber frames where the sealed units mist first, because the bay takes the weather from three sides. The uPVC fitted across Prestwich, Cheadle and Worsley in the 1990s is now at the age where hinges drop, handles seize and the units fail one after another. Apartments in Ancoats and the Northern Quarter have large aluminium units and, above the second floor, access that needs planning. The detached houses of Hale, Bowdon and Altrincham have bespoke sizes, leaded and Georgian-bar units and conservatories with roof glass that needs two people and the right kit.

We carry the common glass sizes and boarding on the van, and manufacture sealed units to measure in toughened, laminated, obscure, low-emissivity and acoustic specifications. Where a frame is beyond repair we say so and quote a replacement window rather than glaze something that will fail again.

Homes, landlords and businesses

Homeowners, letting agents and block managers across Greater Manchester use us for both the 3am call and the planned repair. Businesses use us for shopfronts, offices, schools and bars, with out-of-hours fitting so the door is never closed to customers. Our locksmith team attends the same break-ins, so one call secures the property and repairs the glass. Condensation between the panes is the question we are asked most, and our guide to misted double glazing explained answers it before you spend anything.