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Yacht Glass Resurfacing – The “Bear Flag”, Newport Beach, CA

July 17th, 2010

Here’s a yacht we did a scratched glass/water spot demo on that has scratched and bad water spots pretty much all over the large glass windows.  Its a 63′  yacht/fishing boat.  We did a demo on the worst, most scratched window.  It came out pretty much flawlessly.  The windows looked blurry because the heavy saltwater buildup over the years.  It’s a 25 year old yacht.  We made the demo glass as close to scratch free and perfect as possible, near flawless glass repair.  No discernible distortion whatsoever.

High Volume Glass Scratch Removal – Curtain Wall – Biloxi, MS

June 26th, 2010

Completed – On Schedule!

7,000 square feet of actual scratched glass damage restoration was completed in 16 days.  All the glass was also cleaned and polished with a special glass protectant.  While we did run into some scissor lift and boom lift issues, we still managed to complete this large glass restoration project only one day off our target date.  Yates Construction is a very large national commercial builder who was very pleased with the quality of our work.  More importantly, the owner of the Mississippi Coast Convention Center was also extremely please.  We will most likely be doing another smaller glass restoration project in the near future for Yates construction.   Some of the issues we had to deal with were waiting for the condensation to dry off before we started on a few days.  Needless to say, we always are able to adapt and finish our large glass restoration projects on schedule.  Our guys were averaging around 125 sq. ft. per day each.  We lost a few men for a few days because of being ill.  In addition, we lost quite a lot of time because of the lift issues.  The boom lift starter went out on Thursday and wasn’t working again until Monday!

We know of no other company able to restore and resurface heavily scratched and damaged glass at anywhere near this rate.  I have added some additional pictures that show the severity of how scratched this glass really was.

After six days, we are moving along well.  We have a four man crew with two rookies.  Still, we are averaging about 100 sq. ft. per man per day.  We made some adjustments after day three and are increasing our averages.  We had a scissor lift die on us one day and ran into general slow down problems, which usually happens the first few days on these large scratched glass projects.

Grinding crew is averaging about 500 sq ft per day (250 ) while the polishing/cleaning 2 man crew is averaging about 420 sq ft per day (210 sq ft each).

Here are a few pictures.

Scratched Impact Glass Curtain Wall Resurfacing Begins 6-7-2010 Biloxi, MS

June 4th, 2010

Things have finally progressed.  We will be tackling a 7000+ sq. ft. curtain wall of tempered dualpane impact glass in Biloxi, MS.  We should be able to complete the project within 3 weeks.  We are projecting with our crew of 4 averaging between 100-150 sq. ft. per day each, we should be able to complete the brunt of the glass resurfacing in 15 work days.  We also have a custom home to do some repairs on nearby Biloxi.  We begin on Monday, June 7th, 2010.  We will be working from scissor lifts so that will slow us down somewhat.  All in all, it will prove to be challenging.  Every project we have ever done proves to have its own distinct challenges.  It usually takes 1-2 days before we get everyone working like a finely tuned machine.   Projected savings on this project over replacing the scratched glass is around $150,000.00

Please feel free to come by and check us out.  With the gulf of Mexico oil spill fiasco going on right across the road from where we will be working, it will be nice to be doing something “green” by saving the damaged glass from going into the landfill  since laminated impact glass (and windshields too) cannot be melted down and reused.  All that can be done with them is to grind them down and mix with asphalt and use for roads.  Aside from that, even if the glass was melted down again, think of how much energy is required to melt down glass.  Melting point for glass is right around 1200 degrees F.

Fabricating Debris Scratched Tempered Glass Door Resurfacing – Tampa, FL

April 18th, 2010

Doing a “little” job in Tampa, Florida on our way to Miami and Boca Raton for a few demos with some commercial builders. What we have here is a custom home with (18) tempered glass french doors with apparent fabricating debris damage. There are scratches on the inside and the outside of the glass. The builder had another “scratched glass repair expert” come to do a demo before I arrived. From their description, sounds like he was using the glasweld system. He was able to “resurface” about 2 sq. ft. in about 3 hours! Many of the scratches are fairly significant on this project so its understandable. The total sq. footage of the 18 doors and windows is about 400+ sq. ft. since there are additional scratches on the inside also. The other guy said he could do the whole job in about 16 hours! Does something seem wrong with the math?! I have put in about 14 hours already into the job and still probably have 4 hours left. Needless to say, we got the job, even though we were significantly more expensive than the other guy. However, we’re still less than 50% of the replacement cost. Just another example of how our “competition” constantly “say” they can do what we can do but, in our experience, have yet to show us or anyone that they really can. Here are a few pictures of the job in progress. We are the real glass resurfacing experts. We beat everyone in speed, neatness, quality, and even price if we have to!

Scratched Tempered Glass Door Resurfacing - Fabricating Debris Repair

Custom Home - (18) Scratched Tempered Glass Door Resurfacing - Fabricating Debris Repair

Scratched Glass Tempered Door Resurfacing - Tampa, Florida

Scratched Glass Tempered Door Resurfacing - Tampa, Florida

Scratched Glass Fabricating Debris Repair - Tampa, Florida

Scratched Glass Fabricating Debris Repair - Tampa, Florida

Glass Scratch Removal – Hurricane Glass Curtain Wall Resurfacing – Biloxi, MS

April 13th, 2010

We’re here in Biloxi, Mississippi checking out this pretty badly scratched hurricane glass curtain wall.  Hurricane glass is dual pane tempered + laminated.  In other words, “very costly” glass to replace. The curtain wall gets sun most of the day actually.  So every one of the windows we work on has to be perfect.  No room for swirls, haze, or distortion.  With virtually every other scratched glass repair system out there, this type of job would be impossible.  For one, there is no way they could resurface thousands of square feet in a timely enough manner.  Secondly, the likelihood of swirls and haze would be highly probable since all other scratched glass repair systems are designed either for single isolated scratches or graffiti removal, but none are designed to resurface large areas of glass.  And for these reasons, we have NEVER lost a job to any other scratched glass repair company.  We get the jobs because we invented our tools and our process because nothing else out there can resurface glass in a timely manner.  When it comes to Scratched Glass Repair and Resurfacing Experts, We are the gold standard, without equal – guaranteed!

We should be starting this project within the month if everything falls into place quickly.  We’ll post pictures soon, as they become available.

Scratched Impact Glass Resurfacing

Biloxi MS Fabricating Debris Impact Glass Resurfacing

Biloxi Scratched Hurricane Glass Curtain Wall Resurfacing

Scratched Tempered Hurricane Impact Glass Resurfacing

Scratched Hurricane Glass Resurfacing
Fabricating Debris Hurricane Glass Resurfacing

Scratched Glass Demo – Impact Glass Resurface – Fabricating Debris Removal

April 8th, 2010

Now it looks like there are 18 scratched tempered glass doors in Tampa that we’re going to take care of right after we finish the scratched glass  demo in Mississippi.

We’ve been contacted by a commercial builder in Mississippi about a 50 foot high scratched glass curtain wall.  Either tempered or hurricane glass but sounds like fabricating debris resurfacing job.  It’s been estimated to be about 7000 sq. ft. of damage of total of 12,000 sq. ft.  We’ll be there Tuesday (4-13-10) afternoon and probably do the demo on Wednesday (4-14-10) morning and maybe play golf after that!!  I’ve seen pictures and it looks beautiful, right on the coast!  All the glass faces the SW and catches the setting sun.  No room for error on this glass resurfacing job.  No problem.

Also, we were contacted by a builder in Aspen about a 35 million dollar home with glass scratches throughout.

Then there is a project in Edmonton, Alberta that we may go do also.

Also we were contacted by a builder in Tampa, FL about a house with 18 very badly scratched windows from fabricating debris yet again.  We’ll keep you posted.

Scratched Glass Repair – Pebble Beach, CA

April 1st, 2010

We arrived in Monterey yesterday and started our latest project in Pebble Beach, CA.  We’re working on some very large windows that look like fabricating debris damage again!  The scratches in this glass have all the telltale signs of fabricating debris.  Some of the windows are 3′ x 9′ but they are 20 feet high.  Scaffolding is coming tomorrow.  Of course, noone really thought fabricating debris scratches could be repaired but we have made another fan of Unscratch the Surface!  Some of the windows face the 17th green on the Monterey Peninsula Country Club Golf Course.  Very picturesque.  We can see the huge waves breaking about 600 yards away!  Deer all over, geese, ducks and beautiful scenery abounds here.  We actually will get to play one of the Monterey Peninsula Golf Courses when we’re done!  I’ll get some pictures up in awhile.

Scratched Glass Graffiti Removal – Los Angeles, CA

March 24th, 2010

We squeezed in a glass graffiti repair job after the Coldwater Canyon job today.  It was in some 12′x7′ tempered glass storefront in Santa Monica, CA.  It was very difficult because of the depth.  We were able to do it with minimal discernible distortion.  Sometimes, there may be some distortion when a window has been repaired before, which this one was.  The owner has finally decided to get some anit graffiti film now.  We did suggest this about 6 months ago!  Anyway, the repairs still came out well.  Another satisfied glass graffiti removal customer!

Scratched Glass Graffiti Removal

Scratched Glass Graffiti Removal

Deep Scratched Glass Graffiti Repair

Boffi Los Angeles, CA - Deep Scratched Glass Graffiti Repair

Deep Scratched Glass Graffiti Repair

Deep Scratched Glass Graffiti Repair

Scratched Glass Graffit Repair - Boffi, Los Angeles, CA

Fabricating Debris – Scratched Glass Resurfacing – Beverly Hills, CA

March 15th, 2010

Day 1 – March 17th 2010 – Wednesday

We finally got underway today with the Coldwater Canyon job.  It’s roughly 1020 sq. ft. of fabrication debris scratched glass resurfacing.  The trim around the windows is making the job take longer than usual.  It’s some kind of finished metal that can barely get water on it without becoming discolored.  Therefore, we have to mask the metal off so we don’t get anything on the metal.

It was pretty warm today for spring!  Must have been 90 in the sun, which was where we found ourselves in the late afternoon.  Anyway, after a very smooth day one, we’re pretty sure we can resurface all 1020 sq. ft. of this fabricating debris damage within our 10 day schedule.  Most likely, we should be completed within 8 days.  Here are a few pictures from today.

Day 2

Moving right along.  Averaging right at 100 sq. ft. per day.  partly because of the metal around the windows, but also because this job has to be perfect.

Day 4

We’ve completed resurfacing 400 sq. ft. of scratched glass that gets direct afternoon sun.  Therefore it all has to be perfect.  No swirls or haze or any distortion is acceptable.  The metal around the windows and doors is bronze with a patina finish.  It’s supposed to last a very long time.  However, we’re trying our best not to get anything on it.  On many of the windows, we’re having to get glass scratches removed right up to about 1/16th of an inch to the edge.  This also is slowing us down a bit.  Looks like Monday or Tuesday, we’ll be attacking the monster window!  The 1500 pound, 14′ x 10′ laminated scratched glass beast! I think we can get it done in one day though.  Anyway, here are some more pictures as we move ahead.  Shooting for completion by Friday, Saturday the latest.  Then off to Monterey and Palo Alto next week!

Day 6 – March 23rd, 2010 – Tuesday

Finished the giant 10′ x 14′ yesterday.  As of Tuesday, March 23rd, we have resurfaced 790 sq. ft. of large scratched tempered glass.  Therefore our crew of  (2) is averaging around 130 sq. ft. a day or 65 sq. ft glass resurfacing each per day.  It may seem slow but another company that came in to do a “demo” window took 6 hours with 2 guys to resurface (1) 2′x4′ window.  One of our guys did the same window in 1.5 hrs!!  We will most likely finish the repairs tomorrow and clean all the windows on Thursday.

Day 7 – March 24th, 2010 – FINISHED!

We actually finished in a half a day today.  Therefore, we were able to resurface 1020 sq. ft. of fabricating debris scratched glass in 6.5 days, averaging 157 sq. ft. per day (78.5 sq. ft. per man)  A little below average but still acceptable.  Tomorrow we will clean all the windows and we’re done.  Another fabrication debris scratched glass restoration job completed.

Scratched Glass Resurfacing

Scratched Glass - Fabricating Debrisid a really bad heavily scratched glass graffiti job in Santa Monica afterward. I'll post it in a bit.

Fabricating Debris Scratched Glass Repair

Glass Scratch Removal - Fabricating Debris Damage

Scratched Glass Resurfacing - Patina Finish Trim around Windows + Doors

Shot of the Bronze trim with patina Finish - Scratched Glass Repair

Coldwater Canyon Scratched Glass Resurfacing

Fabricating Debris - Scratched Glass Resurfacing

Fabricating Debris Resurfacing Job - Beverly Hills, CA

Fabricating Debris - Scratched Glass Resurfacing

Fabricating Debris - Scratched Glass Resurfacing

Scratched Glass Repair - Fabricating Debris Resurfacing job

Fabricating Debris Resurfacing – Lexus Dealer – Escondido, California (San Diego)

January 13th, 2010

Here’s another fabricating debris resurfacing job we did in Escondido, CA, near San Diego, CA.  This was a huge project where they found quite a few areas of bad tempered scratched glass that got scratched when the window cleaners came through and scraped the glass during construction cleanup.  It’s hard to determine if it was carelessness on the window cleaners part or just fabricating debris.  Either way, we were able to completely resurface the damaged and scratched glass areas, restoring the glass to perfect clarity again, and without leaving any distortion.  While many other scratched glass companies are claiming they can do this, again, we were called in to actually do the glass restoration, even though there are companies much closer than we are.  If you have a large area of glass with scratches, especially tempered glass, please make sure that you have us or another company perform at least a 10-12 square foot area of glass resurfacing that will get afternoon sun.  This will really show the true quality of someones glass resurfacing skills.  Check and see how long it takes them to completely restore the glass back to clear.  10-12 square feet should take an hour or less.  You don’t want some company taking up residence in your business, commercial project or custom home!  You want them to get in, get out.  These are just some things to look for when seeking out a glass resurfacing company.  We have done our homework and there aren’t any other companies that can equal our speed, neatness and quality.  We stand behind that statement and have proven it many times over now.  We’re not the cheapest but we guarantee we will save you around 70% over replacing the scratched glass.  We are the best at what we do, which is restore scratched glass to look like new glass without any scratches, haze, cloudiness, or distortion – guaranteed!  Here are some pictures of the project we recently completed in Escondido, CA.  If you need someone to remove graffiti from your glass, there are many companies capable of doing this adequately.  However, I would recommend someone who is using the glass repair tools that I designed.  Call us if you need someone in your area to remove graffiti from your storefront glass.  You definitely don’t want distortion in your glass.  That will be much more noticeable than the scratches.  You might be able to see the scratches from 15 feet away but a bad glass graffiti repair is visible from 100 yards away!

Kolbe Doors – Damaged from Painters Sanding trim – Terranea Resort – Palos Verdes, California

May 14th, 2009

This was an interesting Scratched Glass Restoration job we did.  This was at the beautiful Terranea Resort. Apparently the painters didn’t use a very good quality masking tape because when they sanded the edges of the trim before painting, they scratched right through the tape and scratched 95 Kolbe French doors!  Unfortunately, the scratches were so deep and so close to the edge, we had to have the trim removed and replaced so that we could aggressively grind and polish all the damage.  Of course, they thought it couldn’t be repaired!  We did a little demo and made scratched glass repair believers out of them all.   No other companies would touch it because of the depth and proximity to the edge.  When it comes to glass restoration and scratch removal, very infrequently do we find any type of glass damage that we can’t fix.  The only thing that even comes to mind was some very heavy welding damage.  Some of the molten metal burrowed so far into the glass that you could stick a pen tip easily into the glass damage!

The challenging part about the Terranea job was the fact that all the damaged glass had an ocean view!  Therefore, distortion, waviness, or any haze would show up very badly in the afternoon sun.  An interesting side point.  One day while working on this project, we actually saw a whale and her calf swim right by where we were working.  We were that close to the water!  It was spectacular!  Needless to say, we removed all the glass scratches and restored the glass to like new condition.  We saved approximately 75% over replacement cost.  When it comes to glass repair, glass restoration, and most all types of scratched glass damage, we are #1!  Remember, “When your view matters – Call Unscratch The Surface!”