That Cracked Window Will Not Stay Cracked

A crack in glass does not stop. It grows. And the day it finally lets go, you will not get a warning.

Cracked glass looks stable. It is not. Heat, cold and wind keep working on it until it fails.

You walk past it every day. The crack in the window. You stopped seeing it months ago.

But the glass did not stop. Every hot afternoon, it swells. Every cold night, it shrinks. Every time the wind pushes on it, the crack opens a little more.

Glass does not heal. A crack only goes one way. Longer.

What happens when it goes

Most old window glass is not safety glass. When it breaks, it does not crumble. It falls in long, heavy, razor-sharp pieces.

It does not pick a good time. It can go when a door slams. When a storm hits. When a kid throws a ball in the yard. When nobody is even in the room.

Here is why you have waited

You are not lazy. You got a quote.

Someone told you the whole window had to come out. New frame. Cut trim. Broken drywall. Paint. Days of workers in your house. A number in the thousands.

So you closed the tab. Anyone would.

But here is the part nobody told you.

You do not need a new window

The frame is fine. It is the glass that broke.

The glass in your window is one sealed piece. Two panes with sealed air in between. It sits inside the frame like a battery sits in a remote. It lifts out. A new one drops in.

No workers in your house. No holes in your wall. No painting. On most vinyl windows, you can do it yourself in one afternoon with a putty knife and a rubber mallet.

And you can order the glass yourself, today, in about a minute.

Three steps. That is the whole job.

1. Measure itMeasure the glass you can see. Then add 3/4 of an inch. Do it three times to be sure. There is a short video on the order page that shows you how.
2. Order itType in your size. Pick your glass. Your price shows up on the screen. It is built in 1 to 3 days and shipped free.
3. Pop it inTake the strips off with a putty knife. Lift the old glass out. Set the new one in. Snap the strips back.

You can also order safety glass

You can choose tempered glass instead of plain glass. It is about four times stronger. And if it ever does break, it breaks into small dull pieces instead of long sharp ones.

If the window is near a door, a stairway, a walkway, or a child's room, this is worth it.

What if you measure wrong?

That is the thing most people are afraid of. So it is covered.