Ormond Beach Glass · Ormond Beach, Ormond-by-the-Sea & Holly Hill, FL
A pane the storm took out, or the original windows this house was built with in 1964. Tell us what you are dealing with and we will connect you with an independent local glass company.
Call (386) 999-3743What to do in the first hour, how to make an opening safe, and what to photograph before anyone touches it.
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Learn more →Impact glass and shuttersWhat opening protection is, when the code requires it, and why your address decides the answer.
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Learn more →Ormond Beach is really two places as far as glass is concerned, and the failure modes have almost nothing in common.
Ormond-by-the-Sea and the beachside sit on a narrow strip of barrier island with salt air on both sides of it. Here the glass usually outlives the metal around it: window and door hardware corrodes, aluminum frames chalk and pit, slider rollers seize in their tracks, and sealant fails years before a pane does.
The mainland has a different enemy entirely — a mature live oak canopy over a lot of the older neighborhoods. Shade is why people love those streets and limbs are what comes through the glass in an August thunderstorm. That is a sudden, one-window problem rather than a slow chemical one.
What both halves share is age. A great many Ormond houses were built between the fifties and the seventies and still carry their original glass, which is where most of the money is being quietly lost.
We do not cut glass or install windows. This site exists to put a description of your problem in front of an independent local company that does, and then to get out of the way. Using it costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
We would rather you interrogated whoever turns up than took our word that they are any good, which is why most of this site is about what to ask instead of who to call. The page on hiring a glass contractor is the checklist we would use on our own house.