Newmains, Cleland, Overtown and the villages around Wishaw are our own doorstep, so these are the jobs we can usually get to fastest. Misted units, doors that have dropped, handles that have snapped, locks that will not turn and draughts round the seals, most of it sorted in one visit.

What we fix in Newmains

Misted, blown or cracked double glazing, with replacement glass units from £75
uPVC and composite doors that stick, drop or will not lock
Window hinges, handles, locks, gaskets and seals
Full window and door servicing, re-alignment and re-sealing to stop draughts
Replacement door panels, letterplates, cylinders and handles
Patio, French and sliding doors that jam, drag or will not close properly

The village housing we work on most

Between Newmains, Cleland, Overtown, Waterloo, Bonkle and Morningside there is a real mix of property. Former miners rows and older terraces sit next to ex council semis and estates that went up in the nineties and two thousands. The older houses often had uPVC fitted twenty five or thirty years ago, and the hardware inside those frames is long past its best even when the frames themselves are still perfectly sound.

That is the part people miss. A window that is misted, draughty or stiff is very rarely a window that needs thrown out. The glass unit, the hinges, the gaskets and the lock are all separate parts and every one of them can be changed on its own. We look at it, tell you which part has failed, and give you an honest answer on whether repairing it makes sense.

What a repair costs

Sealed units start at £75 fitted. Beyond that we price the job rather than the postcode, because size, glass type and how much hardware is involved all change the number. No call out charge, no charge for a quote and no pressure at the door. Over thirty years in the trade and more than a hundred five star reviews behind us.

How soon we can get out

We work eight until five, Monday to Friday. Because Newmains, Cleland and Overtown are minutes from the base we can usually fit a look in quickly, and often the same day if something has been left insecure. If a pane has gone in and the house needs made safe, say so on the phone and we will treat it as urgent.

Not sure what is wrong? Send a photo of the window or door on WhatsApp and we will 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 Newmains.

This is our nearest patch, and it shows

Newmains, Cleland, Overtown, Bonkle and Morningside are a few minutes from us. That is not a marketing line, it is the practical reason these are usually the jobs we can fit in soonest and the ones where we are most likely to come back the same week if a part has to be ordered.

It also means we know the housing. When somebody rings from a street in Newmains and describes a window, there is a fair chance we have had the same pattern of hardware apart on that road before, which is the difference between arriving with the right part and arriving to have a look.

If a door will not lock and the house is not secure, say that when you ring rather than leaving it in a message. Being this close is exactly when it is worth telling us something is urgent, because there is a realistic chance of shuffling the day.

The housing round here and what it means

The villages round Wishaw grew around mining and steel, and the housing reflects that. A lot of what we work on is post war semi detached and terraced stock, much of it originally council built, alongside older village terraces and a scatter of newer estates.

What matters for repairs is when those houses got their windows done. A great many were fitted with uPVC through the nineties and early two thousands, often as whole street programmes. That generation of window is now twenty five or thirty years old, and the frames are usually still perfectly sound while the hardware has reached the end of its life all at once.

That is why the commonest call from these villages is not a broken window, it is several windows that have all gone stiff or draughty around the same time. It looks like the windows are finished. They are almost never finished. It is stays, gaskets and locking gear, and doing the lot in one visit works out far cheaper than replacing anything.

The upside of street scale fitting programmes is that the hardware tends to be common patterns, which we carry. Most of these jobs finish on the first visit.

Whole house jobs and shared closes

Two situations come up more here than elsewhere and both are worth mentioning when you ring.

The first is the whole house service. If every window in the house is the same age and the same make, doing them together is a much better use of a visit than fixing one at a time as each one gets annoying. Our window service page explains what that covers.

The second is common doors and close windows in the flatted blocks. Those get harder use than anything in a private house and they are often nobody’s clear responsibility, so they get left until they fail completely. We are happy to look at them, and if you are a factor, a committee member or just the neighbour who has ended up organising it, ring and we will talk it through.

Questions from customers round here

Can you come out today?

Sometimes, and more often here than anywhere else we cover, because you are on our doorstep. It depends entirely on what is already booked. Ring rather than emailing if it is urgent, and tell us if the property is insecure, because that moves you up the list.

All my windows are the same age. Should I just replace them?

Not on the strength of them all being stiff at once, which is the usual reason people ask. Frames outlast hardware by a long way. Get somebody to tell you honestly which it is before you price a full replacement, and if it genuinely is the frames we will say so. Our page on repair or replace sets out how to tell.

I am a landlord with a property in the village

That is fine and we do a fair amount of it. We can deal with the tenant directly for access, invoice you, and tell you plainly what needs doing now against what can wait, which is usually what a landlord actually wants to know.

Do you charge more for coming out to a village?

No. There is no call out fee and no travel charge anywhere we work, and that includes the outlying villages. You pay for the work done and nothing else.

Before you call us out

Most of the calls we take from the villages start as one of these questions. The answers are free to read and there is no sales pitch in any of them.

There are fifty articles in all in our window and door advice section.

Just along the road we cover Motherwell, Carluke and Lanark, Hamilton and Shotts. Wishaw is home, so nothing here is a long trip for us.