Glass Repair Fort Lauderdale, FL — Broken, Foggy, and Scratched Glass Replaced
Glassdudes provides services for both residential and commercial glass repair in the Fort Lauderdale area, specifically sliding doors, window panes, fogged double-pane windows, shower, and storefront glass. Give us a call, and a licensed expert will arrive within 24 hours and take the necessary measurements, inform you of what went wrong, and provide an estimate before ordering the glass.
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Damaged Glass Repair in Fort Lauderdale: What You See and What We Do
The fix depends less on how bad the glass looks and more on what kind of glass it is and on the condition of the frame holding it.
| What you see | What’s usually behind it | What we do | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| A crack running across the pane | Annealed or laminated glass took a hit (tempered glass shatters instead of cracking). | Replace the pane and keep the frame if it’s sound. | Ordered to size; standard sizes come in fastest |
| Shattered panel, small cubes everywhere | Tempered safety glass breaking the way it’s designed to | Clear the shards from the frame and install a new tempered panel. | Ordered to size after the estimate |
| Fog or droplets between two panes | The seal on an insulated unit failed and let moisture in. | Replace the insulated unit; keep the frame. | Ordered to size, about 3–5 days |
| Cloudy or bubbly edges on impact glass | The laminated interlayer is separating (delamination). | Replace the pane with glass that matches the unit’s approval. | Ordered to size |
| Old single-pane glass and a room that heats up fast | Original glass with no insulating layer, common in older homes | Replace it with a double-pane insulated unit if the frame can take the thickness. | Ordered to size once measured |
| Broken glass, and the frame around it is bent or damaged too | The hit or the storm damaged the frame along with the glass. | Install a complete new door or window instead of glass alone. | Measured and quoted on the first visit |
Residential and Commercial Glass Repair & Replacement Services in Fort Lauderdale, FL
We repair the glass in doors, windows, shower enclosures, and other glass panels without tearing out the frame. If the frame is intact, simply replacing the glass will cost much less than installing a new window or door.
- Sliding glass doors A patio slider takes more abuse than any other glass in the house. Pool toys, deck chairs, and a kid running full speed at what they thought was an open door. We replace broken, fogged, or delaminated glass in the panel, tempered or impact, and install a complete new door when the frame can’t be saved.
- Windows Cracked panes, foggy double-pane units, and old single-pane glass that’s still around in a lot of the city’s mid-century homes. We change the glass and leave a sound frame alone. Replacing single-pane glass? If the frame has room for a thicker unit, ask about energy-efficient double-pane glass instead; with the AC running most of the year, the difference shows up on the power bill. Rotted or out-of-square frames are a different job, covered on our window repair and replacement page.
- Shower glass Frameless and semi-frameless enclosures in condos and newer townhomes. We replace a broken panel, realign hardware that’s let the door drift, and reseal it.
- Storefront and office glass A shop on Las Olas Boulevard can’t sit behind plywood for a week! Our commercial glass repair means replacing scratched, chipped, or broken storefront and office panes, booked around your opening hours.
Impact Glass in Broward Has to Match Its Approval
The strictness of Florida’s building code stems from the threat of wind and hurricanes, which is also why Fort Lauderdale finds itself in the most demanding section of that code. Broward County is one of only two counties in the High-Velocity Hurricane Zone. An impact rating belongs to the tested unit as a whole, frame and glass together, so a window or slider counts as impact-resistant only in the configuration that passed testing. Swap its glass for a similar but generic laminated pane, and the unit may not pass inspection.
So the first thing our tech does with an impact unit is identify it. The label on the frame, the mark etched into the glass, or the original permit usually gets us there. Lost the paperwork? The city keeps permit records in LauderBuild, and you can search them by address. The approvals themselves are listed in the Florida Building Commission’s product approval search. Replacement glass gets ordered to that spec. Nothing looser.
Leaks Around the Glass: What April 2023 Showed Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale experienced 25.91 inches of rainfall within 24 hours on April 12–13, 2023. Many residents were left to discover that night how much water their windows and doors allowed in. If water was observed around the edges of the glass rather than through the wall or frame joints, it is likely that one of the seals had failed. In that case we reseal the pane and check it before we leave. If the glass itself is fine, that’s a far smaller job than replacing the whole window.
Glass Repair Cost in Fort Lauderdale
| Job | Price |
|---|---|
| Full glass panel replacement (sliding door) | $250 – $1,000+ |
| Single window pane, standard size | Starting at $175 |
| Double-pane (insulated) glass unit | Starting at $220 |
| Window seal and weatherstripping repair | Starting at $65 |
| Impact pane, matched to its approval | Priced at the estimate |
| Custom or non-standard glass | Depends on size and glass type |
| Shower glass panel | Starting at $800 |
| Glass replacement credit | –$50 toward any glass job |
| On-site estimate | Free |
Call us
As soon as your submission is received, we will contact you to arrange the visit. Tell us what happened and, if you know it, what type of glass you have: is it impact, double-pane, or single-pane? We understand if you’re unsure — this is what our first visit is for!
Within 24 hours
Licensed technician arrives and takes the dimensions of the opening, examines the glass itself (and, for impact glass, identifies its product approval), and provides you with a final cost estimate. Standard-sized tempered glass is the fastest to arrive.
On installation day
Usually 3–5 days out for insulated, impact, or odd-sized glass, our specialist seals the glass and checks the fit before cleaning up the premises to leave it in a better condition than before the accident.
Glass Broke Tonight? Keep It Safe Until We Arrive
- Keep pets and children out of the area, and put on shoes: tempered glass pieces scatter farther than you’d expect.
- Leave the loose pieces in the frame alone; pulling them by hand is what causes injuries.
- Clean the window sill and the floor without throwing away any pieces of the glass; then, tape plastic covering sheets or cardboard to the opening from inside.
- Before any cleanup, though, take photos of the broken glass as it is; your insurance provider may ask for them.
Where We Work in Fort Lauderdale
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Working With Glassdudes in Fort Lauderdale
We install and replace glass across Florida, specializing in residential work, with a commercial side for shops and offices. Fort Lauderdale jobs are run by our team, and the person who measures your glass works for us, same as the one who installs it. No referral network, no hand-offs.
- 185 Google reviews with a 5.0 average.
- Licensed and insured, which protects your property if something goes wrong mid-job.
- 3-month warranty on parts and labor
- Before any glass goes in, the tech checks the frame for rot, corrosion, or warping. If the frame can’t hold a pane, you hear it before you pay for one.
- Gloves and safety glasses on every job, no exceptions
“Matching the size is the easy part. In Fort Lauderdale the real work is figuring out what glass was in that opening to begin with: impact or not, which approval, and whether the frame around it is still worth putting new glass into. Skip that and you end up paying for the same pane twice.”
A typical repair: a 1960s home in Coral Ridge with impact windows installed years ago, and now one of them is cloudy along the edges. The label on the frame is unreadable, and the only thing on the glass is the word “laminated” with no indication of the brand. So the technician pulls the approval number from the original installation permit and orders glass that matches it. A few days later, the old pane comes out in one piece, because its interlayer is still intact, and the new one goes in.