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Mr-Glass Custom & Geometric Windows in Fort Lauderdale: What to Know First

We handle independent Mr-Glass custom and geometric window repair and replacement throughout Fort Lauderdale, and the honest answer is most jobs run between $650 and $2,900 depending on glass size, shape complexity, and whether we’re rebuilding the frame or just reglazing. Most arched, radius, and custom-angle Mr-Glass units take us two to four business days once the glass lands in our shop, since odd shapes almost never come off a shelf. If you own a Mr-Glass window and it’s fogged, leaking, sagging, or just won’t sit square in the frame, this page will tell you exactly what you’re dealing with and what it should cost to make it right. Call (904) 913-5886 and you’ll get a real person, day or night. Ed Winslow’s name is on the door, literally, and that means it gets done right.

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How Mr-Glass Products Fail - and How We Fix Them

Mr-Glass makes a solid product, but we’ve been inside enough of them in Fort Lauderdale to know exactly where the weak points are, especially on custom and geometric shapes where the frame gets stressed harder than a standard rectangle. Here’s what we actually find when we open one up:

• Fogged glass on Mr-Glass radius and arch-top units. The curved and arched lines Mr-Glass puts out look great over a front entry or stairwell landing, but the seal along the curved glass edge moves more in Florida heat than a flat edge ever will. That thermal movement eventually cracks the seal, condensation gets in, and you’re looking at haze you can’t clean off. We rebuild the insulated unit with fresh argon and a new flexible seal designed for the coast, not the same rigid seal that failed the first time.
• Sagging sashes on Mr-Glass oversized trapezoid and parallelogram windows. Fixed geometric glass doesn’t sag much, but the operable trapezoid and diagonal-corner units Mr-Glass produced for a few of the modern-spec homes on Las Olas and Victoria Park carry more dead weight on the hinge side than the factory hardware can hold over a decade of open-and-close cycles. The sash starts dragging on the sill track, the lock misses the keeper by an eighth of an inch, and eventually it won’t latch at all. We square the sash, re-shim it, and upgrade the hinge hardware to a heavier gauge before it chews up the frame.
• Frame leaks at mitered corners on Mr-Glass custom-angle windows. Any window with a non-90-degree corner puts four miters in the frame instead of the usual two butt joints, and that’s four places water can find its way in. In Fort Lauderdale, a three-day afternoon downpour will expose a weak miter fast. We’ve pulled enough of these apart to know Mr-Glass’s joinery was good but not always sealed for exposed south-facing walls. We disassemble, re-seal each miter with a marine-grade polyurethane, and re-install with proper flashing so the next hurricane season isn’t a puddle on your sill.
• Broken internal muntins on Mr-Glass geometric divided-light designs. Mr-Glass does a nice true-divided-light look on diamond and octagon windows, but the thin aluminum muntin bars inside the glass can snap loose from vibration - nearby construction, a slamming door, even a heavy truck down A1A. Once a bar is loose, it rattles and scratches the interior glass surface. We can rebuild the unit with reinforced muntin clips, which Mr-Glass’s own replacement line doesn’t always include.
• Sticking or seized pivot hardware on Mr-Glass round and oval vent windows. Round operable windows are beautiful and notoriously finicky. The pivot mechanism Mr-Glass uses on smaller round vents collects salt and grit from the Atlantic air, and after a few years the window either won’t move or won’t stay open. We strip the pivot, clean the corrosion, replace the bearing surface, and get that window opening with two fingers again. A lot of companies will tell you to replace the whole unit for $2,400. Most of the time, the $300 hardware fix puts you back in business.

Our Mr-Glass Custom & Geometric Windows Process

We’ve run enough Mr-Glass jobs in Fort Lauderdale that our process is down to a science. Here’s what you’ll see from the first call to the final walkthrough:

1. 1
   The call. You talk to a real person, not a phone tree, and we’ll ask questions a Mr-Glass owner needs to hear: What shape is the unit? Is the glass fogged or is the frame the issue? Where does the water show up first when it rains?
2. 2
   The on-site diagnostic. A uniformed, background-checked tech comes out to measure every side of the unit, check the glazing channel for damage, and take photos of the frame joinery. For geometric windows, we measure twice on every dimension because a half-degree error on a parallelogram shows up as a quarter-inch gap at the far corner.
3. 3
   The parts call. We identify the exact Mr-Glass line and determine whether the job needs an OEM glass unit, a custom-cut aftermarket unit (sometimes a better fit for discontinued shapes), or just hardware and resealing. We’ll show you the cost difference in writing before any purchase order goes out.
4. 4
   The repair or rebuild. We do the work on site where we can; for complex radius or curved units, we template the shape, cut and assemble in our shop, and return for installation. Either way, the flange gets re-flashed correctly, not caulked over.
5. 5
   The test. We run a water test on installed units and cycle every operable window at least five times before we call it done. If it sticks, leaks, drags, or fogs after we leave, we come back. That’s the 36500-Day Done Right Promise, and it’s not fine print.

What Mr-Glass Custom & Geometric Windows Costs in Fort Lauderdale

Here’s the honest math, no change orders hiding behind it. Every job gets a written line-item quote before any work begins, and that quote doesn’t move unless you change the scope.

• Reseal and re-shim of a single Mr-Glass geometric frame: $275-$550
• Full reglaze of a fogged Mr-Glass arch or radius unit (insulated glass replacement): $750-$1,800, depending on glass type and curve radius
• Replacement hardware for a round, oval, or trapezoid operable Mr-Glass vent: $125-$375 per unit
• Full custom rebuild of an oversized Mr-Glass geometric window (glass, frame re-miter, flashing, install): $1,900-$2,900

What moves the price: impact-rated glass always costs more than standard laminated (and it matters in Fort Lauderdale), curved glass carries a template fee, and a second-story trapezoid on a ladder costs more to reach than a ground-floor arch. Seniors and veterans take 10% off the final total, every time, with no end date. Call (904) 913-5886 for a free estimate on your exact window. The second opinion is free too if you already have a written quote from someone else and want us to look at it.

Why Fort Lauderdale Homeowners Call Winslow Windows & Doors for Mr-Glass Work

We’re not a national chain with a ticket number and a subcontracted crew. Ed Winslow started this outfit in 2011 and has spent years fitting, measuring, and standing behind windows along the Las Olas corridor, where salt air and hard Atlantic storms have a way of separating quality work from everything else. Every technician who shows up at your door is background-checked and in uniform, so you know exactly who’s in your house before the truck pulls up. When we’re not doing Mr-Glass work, we’re installing PGT, CGI, CWS, and ES Windows, which means we know exactly how your Mr-Glass unit compares to what else your neighbors have on their walls. If your Mr-Glass shape is discontinued or not worth saving, we’ll tell you straight and show you what a current impact-rated option would run. The one down the road: call (904) 913-5886.

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