Commercial glazing, priced off your drawings

Fredericksburg to Georgetown, and most of the Hill Country and the Austin metro in between. The shop is at 304 Main Street in Marble Falls, which puts us in the middle of that range rather than at the edge of it. If your job is past it, call and ask before you assume the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes we will tell you someone closer makes more sense for the size of the job.

Off the drawings. Send the elevations, the glazing schedule, and the finish schedule, and you get a written scope by opening, with the system, the glass make-up, the finish, and what we are excluding. The exclusions matter as much as the inclusions, because that is what makes the bids you are holding comparable to each other.

It depends, and that is the honest answer. What drives it is the glass make-up and the system, not the size of the job. Anything tempered has to be made to final size before it is tempered, so it cannot be trimmed when it lands and the clock starts at the field measure rather than at the purchase order. Insulated units and coated glass run longer than clear monolithic. Once we know the make-up we will give you a real number, and if it moves we will tell you before it becomes your problem.

For new construction we need the openings framed and dried in before we can measure, so we come after the framer and the waterproofing. Interior glass is close to last, after the walls are finished and the floor is down, because that is when the opening stops moving. Tell us your framing and drywall dates and we will tell you where our measure and install land against them.

It usually does not match exactly, and that is normal. If it is small we absorb it in fabrication and you never hear about it. If the opening moved enough to change the system or the glass make-up, we stop and come back to you with what it costs before anything is ordered. Nobody benefits from us fabricating to a number we know is wrong.

Very. On new construction you are working to a schedule against framed openings that were built to a drawing. On an existing building you are working around whoever is using it, and the opening is whatever it has become since it was built. Most of that work is a glass swap inside the frame you already have, so we measure the existing opening, match the make-up, and set the new lite. It is a different kind of job even when the glass looks the same.

Call the shop. We board up the opening so the building can be secured, then measure and order the replacement glass. We will tell you straight when we can get there instead of promising a window we cannot hit. Our hours are Monday through Friday, eight to five, so if something happens Friday night, say so when you call and we will tell you what is realistic.

Labor carries a one year warranty. Glass and hardware carry whatever the manufacturer provides for that product, which varies by make-up. We will tell you what that is for the specific glass on your job before you approve the scope, rather than after something fails.

Both, out of the same shop. The residential side runs window replacement, shower enclosures, mirrors, and Fleetwood windows and doors. The commercial crew and the residential crew are not the same people, so one does not get pulled off to cover the other when a job runs long.

The shop opened in 1964 and it is on its third generation of the same family at the same address. The commercial side has been part of it for decades. That is worth exactly as much as the last job we did for you, which is why we would rather you call a builder we have worked with than take our word for it.