Bay prices, with nothing added for coming to a Chestnut Hill address: $250 to $450 for a windshield, $200 to $500 for door, quarter or back glass. This is close to ideal ground for mobile work: nearly every house here has a private drive, so there is room beside the vehicle, no parking clock and nobody held up behind the van. Call 215-608-1108 with the address, the vehicle and where exactly it is standing.
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What a mobile fit needs is unglamorous: a reasonably level surface, standing room beside the car wide enough to open a door fully and carry a pane without walking it down the street, and about an hour. A driveway gives all three, which is why suburban mobile work goes smoothly and city kerbside work is a negotiation. The van carries the same glass, the same primer and urethane and the same vacuum that the bay has, and the process does not get shortened because it is happening outside.
Weather is the honest variable, and it splits by job. Door glass, quarter panes and back glass are mechanically fitted rather than bonded, so rain and cold barely affect them and you can drive the moment the clean-up is finished. A windshield is a different animal. Urethane cures by reacting with moisture and it does so at a rate that depends on temperature, which means a cold damp morning gives a longer safe drive-away time than a mild afternoon, and you get told the real figure rather than a convenient one. If the conditions on the day would make the bond a gamble, the sensible answer is to move it or bring the car to Ogontz Avenue instead, and that is what you will be told rather than being talked into a fit nobody would be happy with.
“Called him in the morning, he called back and I went at lunch to get the window replaced. Fast, east for me. Excellent work, good price. Would use him again, no worries!”
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Two Chestnut Hill particulars decide how a visit runs. The first is slope. A lot of drives here climb away from the street, and a bonded windshield wants the car sitting level while the bead is laid, so we may ask you to reposition the vehicle at the flat end of the drive or out on a quiet side street such as Evergreen or Highland Avenue, never on the Belgian block of Germantown Avenue itself. The second is the trees. Working under a mature canopy after rain is worse than working in light drizzle, because branches keep dripping for an hour after the sky clears, and sap on a fresh bond line is a genuine problem. Tell us on the phone whether the car stands in the open or under a big tree.
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Side and rear glass is fine on a slope. A windshield is the one that wants the car level, because the urethane bead is laid in one pass and gravity has an opinion about that. Most Chestnut Hill drives have a flatter section near the street or by the garage, and moving the car ten yards is usually all it takes. If the whole drive is steep, we will say so and either work from the kerb on a quieter street nearby or do the job in the bay instead.
No, and most people are not. What we need is access to the vehicle and the keys, so leaving them with somebody in the house, or being home at the start and the finish, both work. What does need saying up front is where the car is standing and whether anything is parked behind it, because a van that has to unload from the street loses the main advantage of coming to a Chestnut Hill address in the first place. Payment is cash, so have that ready for when the job is done.
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