East Kilbride is a regular destination for us, around fifteen minutes from Wishaw. Across East Mains, West Mains, Calderwood, Westwood, Greenhills and The Murray we repair misted and blown double glazing, sticking or dropped uPVC doors, failed locks and handles, and worn seals that let the heat out.
What we fix in East Kilbride
- Misted, blown or cracked double glazing, with replacement glass units from £75
- uPVC and composite doors that stick, drop or won’t lock
- Window hinges, handles, locks, gaskets and seals
- Full window and door servicing, re-alignment and re-sealing to stop draughts
- Replacement uPVC door panels
- Vertical sliding sash window repairs
Why East Kilbride homeowners choose Wishaw Window Repairs
As Scotland’s original new town, much of East Kilbride was built in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s and later fitted with uPVC, which now sits right in the window where hinges, gaskets and locking mechanisms start to give out. Wherever it makes sense we repair rather than replace, backed by 30+ years in the trade and more than 100 five-star reviews from Lanarkshire homeowners.
Not sure what’s wrong? Send a photo of the window or door on WhatsApp and we’ll give you a quick idea of the fix and the cost, with no obligation.
Call 01698 604 278 or message us on WhatsApp for a free quote on window or door repairs in East Kilbride.
New town windows and what goes wrong with them
East Kilbride was built fast and built to a plan, and the housing shows it. Large window openings, wide picture units in the living room, and a lot of timber frame behind the render. Generous openings are lovely for light and awkward for glass, because a blown unit in an East Kilbride living room is often twice the size and several times the weight of a bedroom window in an older sandstone house. That changes how the job is done, not whether it can be done.
The other pattern across East Mains, West Mains, The Murray and Calderwood is age. Much of the estate was re-windowed in uPVC through the nineties and early two thousands, so the frames are still sound while the moving parts are finished. Friction stays seize, gearboxes wear and sealed units fail at roughly the same time, because they all went in at the same time. It is very common to be called out for a whole house and to end up replacing three units and two hinges.
Greenhills, Lindsayfield and Stewartfield sit higher and catch the weather off the plateau. Wind driven rain finds tired gaskets first, so if one side of a house is damp and the other side is fine, that is usually a seal rather than a leak.
What a repair costs in East Kilbride
There is no call out fee. You pay for the work done and nothing else, and the run out from Wishaw is our problem rather than yours.
A replacement sealed unit starts at £75 for a hopper sized piece of glass. Above that it depends on the size of the pane, the type of glass, whether it is toughened, obscure, low emissivity or leaded, and how it comes out of the frame. Hardware is the same story. A handle is not a gearbox, and a thirty year old system nobody makes parts for any more is not the same job as a current one.
That is why every job is quoted on its own instead of from a price list that would be wrong for most people. Send a photo on WhatsApp or ring and describe it, and you get a real figure rather than a range.
Getting out to East Kilbride
East Kilbride is around twenty five minutes from us in Wishaw, straight down the A725, so it is a normal run rather than a special trip. We work Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. Call 01698 604 278 and you will get an honest answer on when we can be there. If it is a security problem, such as a door that will not lock, say so and it moves up the list.
There are two of us and we do the work ourselves, so the person who quotes is the person who turns up. Most East Kilbride jobs fall into window repairs, door repairs or misted glass unit replacement.
Before you call us out
A lot of the jobs we get in East Kilbride start as one of these questions. The answers are free to read and there is no sales pitch in any of them.
- Why is my double glazing misted up?
- Is your uPVC door lock actually secure?
- Looking after uPVC windows and doors
- How long do uPVC windows and doors last?
- A key snapped off in the door lock
- Window restrictors and child safety
There are fifty articles in all in our window and door advice section.
Nearby we also cover Blantyre, Cambuslang and Rutherglen, Strathaven and Stonehouse and Newton Mearns. There is a full list of every town we work in on our areas we cover page.