Stonehouse is about fifteen minutes from us and Strathaven about twenty, both along the A71, and we cover the villages round about too, including Chapelton, Glassford and Sandford. When the glass in a double glazed window or door mists, cracks or gets broken, we replace the sealed unit in the frame you already have, from £75 for a hopper sized pane. We also fix the doors that drop, the locks that stop turning and the hinges that wear out.

Glass replacement in Strathaven and Stonehouse

A misted window is a sealed unit whose edge seal has given up. Damp air gets in between the two panes, and you get a fog that comes and goes with the weather but never wipes off. It will not clear on its own. We measure the unit, have a new one made to size and fit it into your existing frame, so the window stays and only the glass changes.

Strathaven sits at around 185 metres above sea level, and the houses on the edges of both towns are open to the weather. Every cycle of sun, frost and wind works on the seal round a unit and on the gaskets round the glass, so when one unit in a house fails, it is worth checking the others on a cold morning.

When a pane has been cracked or broken, we make the window safe first and fit the new unit once it has been made; our broken window repair page explains the two steps. Door and side panel glass is replaced with toughened safety glass, and obscure bathroom patterns are matched where the pattern is still made. Our window glass replacement page goes into more detail. We work with double glazed sealed units only, never single glazing or glass held in with putty.

What else we fix in Strathaven and Stonehouse

Foggy, cracked or smashed sealed units, from £75 for a hopper sized pane
Safety glass in front doors, back doors and side panels
Doors that have dropped, scrape the frame or need lifting to lock
Windows that will not stay open, will not shut tight or have a snapped handle
Lock cylinders, gearboxes and espagnolette locks
New uPVC windows and doors where repair no longer makes sense

Two old towns that kept growing

Strathaven’s old centre has weavers’ cottages and Georgian townhouses around the Common Green, with late Victorian villas beyond. Council housing went up in the twenties and thirties at Ballgreen, Commercial Road, Kirklandpark and Lesmahagow Road, Dovecastle Park followed in 1958, and the early sixties brought bungalows around Colinhill, Crosshill and Lethame Road. Kirkland Park and Lethame Gardens are cul-de-sacs from the eighties and nineties, and newer homes have gone up at East Overton off Glassford Road.

Stonehouse has weavers’ cottages from the early 1800s on Hill Road and Camnethan Street. In 1973 it was designated a new town, but the plan was abandoned in 1976 with only the first housing at Murray Drive built. More recently, a large development has gone up on the old hospital site on Strathaven Road.

That spread means almost every age of window turns up out this way: older stone houses re-windowed years ago, council and private estates on units from the eighties onwards, and new builds where the first problems are only starting to show.

What a repair costs in Strathaven and Stonehouse

Coming out to Strathaven or Stonehouse costs nothing on its own. There is no call out fee; you pay for the repair.

For glass, £75 is the starting point, which buys a hopper sized unit, the narrow opener above the main pane. Larger units cost more, and so does toughened, obscure, leaded or energy efficient glass. Hardware depends on the part: a replacement handle is a small job, a door gearbox a bigger one. Because of that range we price each job separately. A WhatsApp photo and a rough size is normally enough to give you a figure.

Getting out to Strathaven and Stonehouse

Both towns are a straight run down the A71 from Wishaw, Stonehouse in about fifteen minutes and Strathaven in about twenty. Our hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. A smashed pane or a house that cannot be locked gets priority, so tell us when you get in touch.

We do the work ourselves, with no subcontractors, so the person who measures your glass is the one who comes back to fit it.

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 glass, window or door repairs in Strathaven and Stonehouse.

Conservation areas in Strathaven, Stonehouse, Glassford and Sandford

Strathaven’s conservation area was designated in 1976, is centred on the Common Green and takes in 36 listed buildings. South Lanarkshire Council’s design guide for it presumes against taking out original timber sash and case windows, treats uPVC as out of keeping, and does not accept uPVC on listed buildings or uPVC doors on front elevations, although modern materials can be acceptable at the rear. Stonehouse, Glassford and Sandford have conservation areas of their own.

Since May 2024, most window replacements in Scotland no longer need a planning application, but in a conservation area new windows at the front, or at a side facing the road, still need the council’s prior approval unless they closely match the existing ones, and listed buildings need listed building consent. If you are thinking of new windows in the middle of either town, speak to the council before ordering anything.

None of that applies to a repair. Replacing a failed unit in the frame that is already there, or fixing a hinge or a lock, leaves the outside of the house unchanged. For the wider rules, see our article on window rules in Scotland.

New windows and doors in Strathaven and Stonehouse

We would rather repair than replace, and we will tell you if your frames are worth keeping. If they are not, we supply and fit new double glazing too. On the estates, casement windows are the usual choice; on older houses outside the conservation areas, flush sash windows keep a more traditional look. For doors we fit uPVC and Palladio composite doors. The survey and quote are free, and our page on new windows and double glazing sets out what is available.

Questions from Strathaven and Stonehouse

Our cottage is old but it has double glazing. Can you fix a misted unit in it?

Yes. Plenty of older stone cottages had their original windows replaced years ago, and a misted unit in one of those is the same job as anywhere else. If the cottage is listed or in a conservation area, a like for like repair to what is already there is usually the simplest route.

Do you work on traditional timber sash and case windows?

Not the single glazed ones with the glass set in putty. We only replace double glazed sealed units, so that kind of work needs a specialist. If your windows are uPVC double glazing, a misted, cracked or broken unit is a job for us.

The windows on the exposed side of the house misted first. Is that a coincidence?

Probably not. The units that take the most sun and weather go through the most heating and cooling, and that is what wears out the edge seal. It is worth checking the rest, but only replace the ones that have actually failed.

Before you call us out

A lot of the jobs we get in Strathaven and Stonehouse start as one of these questions. The answers are free to read and there is no sales pitch in any of them.

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

Nearby we also cover Larkhall, Hamilton and East Kilbride. There is a full list of every town we work in on our areas we cover page.