About an hour on site, at the same money as the bay: $250 to $450 for a windshield, $200 to $500 for side or rear glass. What decides whether it happens at your address is space and weather, not price. Tell us the block and whether the car is at the kerb, on a rear pad or in an alley, and we will give you a straight yes or no on the phone.
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The best surface we get to work on in this neighbourhood is a rear parking pad. New and rehabbed houses here often came with one off the back alley, and a car standing on its own concrete with a fence on one side is close to ideal: nothing moving past, room to open the doors, and the van able to sit at the mouth of the alley without blocking anybody. Kerbside on 26th through 31st is workable too, though it needs a bit of honesty about the parked car in front and behind, because a windshield needs the vehicle approachable from both front corners, not just the pavement side.
Wind is the variable people never think about. Brewerytown is open at its western edge, with the park, the river valley and the wide crossing at Girard giving the air a long clear run, and a windy day is a real problem for a bonded windshield outdoors. The bonding surface has been cut back and primed, and it has to stay clean for the couple of minutes before the pane comes down on it; grit landing on wet primer is a bond you would not want in a crash. Our answer is practical: park the van as a windbreak, keep the aperture covered until the last moment, and set the pane without the long pause. If the day is bad enough that this stops being reasonable, we say so and move the job.
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Brewerytown's construction is a mixed blessing for mobile glass. Site traffic, skips and delivery trucks eat the kerb space on the rebuilt blocks, and there are stretches where finding six feet alongside a car in the middle of a weekday is genuinely hard. On the other hand there is more off-street parking here than anywhere nearby, so the answer is usually to move the vehicle twenty yards rather than abandon the idea. When you ring, tell us which of the two you have: kerb on the block, or a pad or driveway behind. That one detail decides whether we send the van straight out or suggest the fifteen-minute drive to Germantown Avenue, and it is worth getting right before anyone sets off.
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Enough to stand the vehicle still with both front doors able to open fully, and roughly a car's width alongside for us and the glass. A rear pad, a driveway or a lot is comfortable. A tight kerbside spot with a truck parked hard behind you is not, because a windshield is carried in on two sets of hands and set in one movement. If you are unsure, describe the spot on the phone and we will tell you honestly whether to move the car first.
For side and rear glass, very little. Those panes are mechanically fitted or bonded into apertures that can be sheltered easily, and that work goes out in most conditions. For a windshield, heavy rain or a strong wind means either a much longer safe drive-away time or a contaminated bonding surface, neither of which we will pretend is fine. In that case you get a call and a choice: rebook, or bring it to the bay where it goes in under a roof and cures on schedule.
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